Microsoft Launches Agent Package Manager (APM) — npm/pip for Agent Configurations, 1.8K Stars and Growing

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Microsoft open-sourced APM, the first dependency manager for AI agent configurations. Declare skills, prompts, MCP servers, hooks, and plugins in a single apm.yml file with transitive dependency resolution — every developer who clones your repo gets a fully configured agent setup in seconds. MIT-licensed, actively evolving through April 2026 with security model, dependency resolution, and policy enforcement updates.