PM-Agent

Stateful Technical PM Agent — a CLI tool that brings persistent project-management context to AI-assisted development. Each project gets its own configuration, memory, decision log, and action audit trail in a local SQLite database.

Status

Alpha — under active development. The CLI is stable for daily use; the schema and API may change before a 1.0 release.

Key Concepts

my-project/
  .pm-agent/        ← created by `pm-agent init`
    project.toml    ← machine-readable project config (commit this)
    memory.md       ← human-editable notes (commit this)
    state.db        ← SQLite state DB (gitignored, auto-created)
    logs/           ← action error logs (gitignored)

Project Discovery

pm-agent walks up from your current directory looking for .pm-agent/. If found, that directory becomes the project root. If not found, it looks for a .git directory as a fallback. This means:

• Run pm-agent status from any subdirectory of your project.
• Pass --project-root /path to pin an exact root (bypasses discovery).
• Pass --repo /path to set a different starting point for discovery.

Commands

Installation

Requires Python 3.12+ and an OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint (Ollama, OpenAI, or any compatible API).

Quick install (recommended)

Linux / macOS:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sm-me-dev/pm-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

To pin a version:

PM_AGENT_VERSION=0.3.0 curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sm-me-dev/pm-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

Windows (PowerShell):

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sm-me-dev/pm-agent/main/scripts/install.ps1 | iex

To pin a version:

$env:PM_AGENT_VERSION = "0.3.0"; irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sm-me-dev/pm-agent/main/scripts/install.ps1 | iex

Security note: piping from the web to your shell is convenient but skips normal verification. Review the script before running:

• install.sh
• install.ps1

The installer detects or installs pipx and uses it to install pm-agent into an isolated environment.

pipx (any platform)

pipx install product-manager-agent

From source

git clone https://github.com/sm-me-dev/pm-agent.git
cd pm-agent
pip install -e ".[dev]"

Verify

pm-agent --help

Quickstart

cd /path/to/your/repo
pm-agent init            # creates .pm-agent/
pm-agent                 # starts the REPL

pm-agent status          # inspect project state
pm-agent doctor          # run diagnostics
pm-agent migrate         # import legacy data if you used pm-agent before v0.3

Configuration Precedence

1. CLI flags (--model, --db, --repo, etc.)
2. Environment variables (PM_AGENT_*)
3. .pm-agent/project.toml (per-project)
4. ~/.config/pm-agent/config.toml (user-global)
5. Built-in defaults

Key Environment Variables

Project Config (project.toml)

[project]
name = "my-project"
language = "python"
test_command = "pytest"
lint_command = "ruff check"
build_command = ""

[constraints]
allowed_paths = []
approval_default = "prompt"
blocked_actions = []

[paths]
# context_dir = ""
# error_log_path = ""

Migration from Legacy Global DB

If you previously used pm-agent with a global state database at ~/.local/share/pm-agent/state.db, migrate to project-local storage:

cd /path/to/your/repo
pm-agent init       # one-time setup
pm-agent migrate    # copy existing data into .pm-agent/state.db

The migration is idempotent — running it multiple times is safe.

Safety

• Repository access is read-only by default.
• External actions require per-payload approval (configurable via rules).
• All actions are logged with an immutable audit trail.

Development

git clone https://github.com/sm-me-dev/pm-agent.git
cd pm-agent
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest

See CONTRIBUTING.md for full development workflow.

Release

See RELEASE.md for the release process.

License

MIT