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apm

Agent Package Manager

GraphCanon updated Sep 20, 2026 · GitHub synced Sep 20, 2026

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3.9k stars364 forksLast push Sep 18, 2026 Python MIT

Decision brief

Agent Package Manager is specialized for managing AI agent packages and their dependencies using Python under MIT license.

Good fit when

You focus on AI agent development with specific package needs
Your projects benefit from Python-based dependency management

Avoid when

You prefer generic software or non-AI-specific package managers
Requirements include support for languages other than Python

Observed Jul 16, 2026 · Source: enrich:decision_facts

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Maintenance and security

Full trust report

Maintenance: Very active (1d since push); As of Sep 20, 2026
Provenance: Not a fork · Organization account; As of Sep 20, 2026
Security (OSV): No lockfile; As of Jul 11, 2026

Public GitHub metadata and optional OSV scans. Signals, not a guarantee. Trust methodology.

Backing

Company context for Microsoft. Display-only - separate from trust and ranking.

Company: Microsoft·GitHub org profile·Jul 11, 2026
Employees: 221,000·Wikidata (P1128 employees)·Jul 11, 2026
Commercial model: Pure OSS·GitHub org profile (public repos)·Jul 11, 2026

Install

pip install apm

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Evidence and technical details

Sourced facts, taxonomy, compatibility claims, README excerpt, and machine-readable endpoints.

Overview

The Agent Package Manager is a tool for managing AI agent packages and dependencies.

Capability facts

CLI: CLI entrypoint
Source: pyproject.toml:[project.scripts] · Sep 20, 2026
Languages: python
Source: github.language+pyproject.toml · Sep 20, 2026

Categories

Graph entities

Microsoftcompany

Compatibility

Sourced claims from the README excerpt - not unsourced marketing copy.

Node.js runtimeNode.js

Source: README excerpt (regex_v1, Sep 20, 2026)

**Coming from `npx skills add`?** Drop-in:

Works with CursorCursor

Source: README excerpt (regex_v1, Sep 20, 2026)

GitHub Copilot | Claude Code | Grok Build | Cursor | OpenCode | Codex | Gemini | Windsurf | Kiro

Works with VS CodeVS Code

Source: README excerpt (regex_v1, Sep 20, 2026)

One command, no configuration -- VS Code and GitHub Copilot read the file automatically. APM dogfoods this target on its

Tags

ai-agents claude-code codex-cli context-engineering github-copilot package-manager prompt-engineering

README

APM – Agent Package Manager An open source, community driven dependency manager for AI agents. Think , , or — but for AI agent configuration. GitHub Copilot Claude Code Grok Build Cursor OpenCode Codex Gemini Windsurf Kiro Documentation · Quick Start · CLI Reference · Roadmap Por...

For agents

This page has a .md twin and JSON over the API.

/tools/microsoft-apm.md GET /api/graphcanon/tools/microsoft-apm GET /api/graphcanon/graph?tool=microsoft-apm

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