APM introduces agent dependency manifests for skills and MCP

The author argues that AI coding agents require dedicated dependency management for external components such as skills, prompts, instructions, plugins, and Model Context Protocol servers. The Agent Package Manager tool, abbreviated as APM, allows developers to declare these external capabilities in a manifest file and install them reproducibly using lockfiles. Additionally, Dependabot now supports APM to help teams automatically track and update upstream changes in agent configurations. Open article →