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Microsoft Introduces APM for Managing AI Agent Packages
Microsoft released an open-source tool to manage skills, prompts, and plugins for AI coding agents with lockfiles and policy controls.

Microsoft has released an open-source Agent Package Manager designed to bring order to the growing complexity of AI coding agents. The tool organizes skills, prompts, plugins, and MCP connections so they can be managed consistently across multiple coding-agent environments.
The package manager introduces lockfiles, content hashes, and policy-based installation. These features aim to make agent tooling more reproducible for development teams and more governable for organizations that need to control how AI assistants are configured and updated.