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APM, published by Orthogonal, is a specialized package manager designed to streamline the discovery, installation, and sharing of SKILL.md packages across more than thirty AI-agent platforms. Released in its inaugural version 0.1.0, the software occupies the developer-tools category and addresses the growing need for standardized skill distribution within agent ecosystems. By acting as a central registry, APM enables users to equip compatible agents—such as Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and VS Code Copilot—with pre-defined capabilities encapsulated in SKILL.md files, thereby reducing repetitive configuration and accelerating workflow automation. Typical use cases include rapidly provisioning a new development environment with linting, testing, and deployment skills; sharing domain-specific knowledge bases among team members; and maintaining versioned skill sets that can be rolled out or rolled back across multiple agents in a single operation. The tool’s lightweight architecture integrates with existing command-line interfaces, allowing developers to treat agent skills like conventional code dependencies while benefiting from semantic versioning and dependency resolution. Because APM focuses exclusively on SKILL.md metadata, it ensures that each package remains product-agnostic yet immediately executable within any supported agent runtime. Orthogonal’s first release emphasizes simplicity, exposing only essential commands for search, install, update, and publish, while future iterations are expected to introduce signed packages, collaborative namespaces, and granular access controls. APM is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always delivering the latest version, and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.
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