Liran Tal • 5/2/2026

Managing AI Agents and Skills with APM

This article introduces APM (Agent Package Manager) from Microsoft, which applies npm-like dependency management to AI agent artifacts such as Claude Skills, MCP servers, prompts, and instruction files. It explains how teams currently manage these components manually, leading to drift and breakage, and how APM solves this with a manifest file (apm.yml), lockfile, and reproducible installs. The article covers APM's architecture, mapping to npm concepts, and the trade-offs of using GitHub repos as a registry.

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#npm #dependency management #lockfile