packaging-with-apm SKILL.md skillA
packaging-with-apm from richfrem/agent-plugins-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/packaging-with-apm@git:20261024.3106a82Pins git:20261024.3106a82 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- richfrem/agent-plugins-skills
- Path
plugins/agent-extension-authoring/.apm/skills/packaging-with-apm/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261024.3106a82, committed Oct 24, 2026
- Size
- 5,442 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- MIT
Packages, installs and distributes agent extensions with APM (Agent Package Manager). Use when the user wants to create a new APM package, convert or migrate an existing plugin to APM and check it installs cleanly, compile a package into AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md or GEMINI.md, install, update, pin or roll back packages globally or per project, or create a plugin marketplace catalog (marketplace.json). Not for authoring a single skill, plugin, sub-agent or rule (use the authoring-* skills).
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Packaging with APM (`packaging-with-apm`) Packages agent extensions for [APM](https://github.com/microsoft/apm) without changing their source layout, installs them with backup and rollback, and publishes marketplace catalogs. Behaviour below was verified with APM `0.33.0`. ## Contents - [Constraints](#constraints) • [Modes](#modes) • [Quick start](#quick-start) • [Workflow](#workflow) • [Verification](#verification) • [References](#references) ## Constraints 1. **Never change the source plugin to package it.** Staging, manifests and bundles go under `build/`; APM does not need an `apm.yml` inside the plugin. 2. **Pin APM** (`apm-cli==0.33.0`, see `requirements-dev.in`) and pin every install to `#<tag>` or `#<commit-sha>`. 3. **Compiled files are outputs.** Never edit a generated `AGENTS.md` or `GEMINI.md` when `.apm/` sources exist; change the source and recompile. 4. **No overwrites** of an existing package directory without explicit confirmation. 5. **Never edit deployed files** in harness folders; change the source and reinstall. ## Modes Pick the mode from the request, then read its reference before running anything. | Mode | Use when | Entry point | Reference | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/packaging-with-apm@sha256:ddc054b523f4fac3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.3106a82, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 24, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
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- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
richfrem/agent-plugins-skills · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_atq2ehmhjaa7ccbf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/packaging-with-apm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ddc054b523f4fac3b43213cbf448b2679b50e36480a0bdab2b75a5cd2ce00991
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.