agentbundle 0.8.0

npm for your coding agent. Install packs of skills, subagents, and hooks into any repo, for every major agent.

agentbundle

The installer for agent-ready-repo. Think npm, but for the skills, subagents, and hooks your coding agent runs on. One pack, one command, every major agent — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini, and Kiro (both the CLI and the IDE).

Quick start

pip install agentbundle

Install into a repo — so everyone who clones it gets the pack. core is the flagship pack, the loop itself:

agentbundle install --pack core

No catalogue argument needed: it defaults to the agent-ready-repo catalogue. It lands in the repo's agent config — subagents and skills included — and you commit it like any other project file. This is the default scope: the pack belongs to the project and the whole team.

Install for yourself, everywhere — so a pack follows you across every project, with no per-repo setup:

agentbundle install --pack research --scope user

User-scope packs land in your home directory, not the repo — they're yours, not the team's, and they're there in every project you open.

The install auto-detects your agent (--adapter overrides). To install from a different catalogue, pass it as a trailing argument — a git URL or a local path (agentbundle install --pack core <catalogue>); a config set source <catalogue> makes that the default, and an editable clone (pip install -e) defaults to itself.

More commands

# See what the catalogue offers (bare uses the default; or name one explicitly)
agentbundle list-packs
agentbundle list-profiles

# Install a whole curated profile — a single-scope set of packs — in one command
agentbundle install --profile inception

# Preview any install without writing a file
agentbundle install --pack core --dry-run

# Upgrade to the version the catalogue ships — shows installed → target, asks first
agentbundle upgrade --pack core
agentbundle upgrade --pack core --yes  # skip the prompt (CI)

# Uninstall — previews remove (Tier-1) vs keep (your edits), asks first
agentbundle uninstall --pack core --dry-run
agentbundle uninstall --pack core --yes

A profile is a catalogue-curated, single-scope set of packs you install in one command — it declares its own scope, so --scope doesn't apply. Upgrade takes no version — the target is whatever the catalogue you point at declares; to pin a past version, point the catalogue at that git ref. Install a pack that's already there and agentbundle offers to upgrade it instead (--yes runs it straight away).

Mutating commands ask first. uninstall, the --force cleanup, and the upgrade offer all preview what they'll do and confirm before touching anything; --dry-run previews without writing, and --yes skips the prompt for non-interactive / CI use (where, without it, they refuse rather than hang).

Build your own catalogue

agentbundle isn't tied to the agent-ready-repo catalogue. Any repo that lays its packs out the same way can use it. A pack is a directory:

my-pack/
  pack.toml                  # name, version, adapter-contract, install scope,
                             # plus rich metadata (license, maintainers, links,
                             # categories, keywords) and a README pointer
  .claude-plugin/
    plugin.json              # Claude Code plugin manifest (hand-authored)
  README.md                  # the pack's portable doc — projected with the pack
  .apm/                      # primitives — projected by the build pipeline
    skills/<name>/
      SKILL.md               # the skill body; one folder per skill
      references/            # progressive-disclosure docs, loaded on demand
      assets/                # templates the skill copies into the repo
    agents/<name>.md         # subagents
    hooks/<name>.py          # lifecycle hooks
  seeds/                     # files scaffolded into the adopter repo

pack.toml is the single source of truth for a pack's metadata. Declare license, [[pack.maintainers]], [pack.links], categories, and keywords once; the build projects the cleanly-mappable subset — plus the pack's README.md — into each distribution route's manifest (the plugin.json / marketplace.json entry), so the catalogue describes each pack richly rather than with a single sentence. Extra fields stay in pack.toml; the projection is deliberately lossy per tool.

Point a catalogue URI (a git URL or a local path) at the repo that holds your packs. Then validate a pack against the adapter contract, render it to preview the projection, and install it into a target repo. scaffold drops a pack's seeds into a fresh directory to start from. The build pipeline (agentbundle.build) is the same engine make build runs.

See the pack layout reference and authoring a skill.

Credentials

agentbundle doesn't resolve secrets. Credentialed skills use credbroker, a standalone resolver that keeps cleartext out of the model's reach.

Learn more

The full story — the loop, the reviewers, the pack catalogue — is in the agent-ready-repo README.