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AI · January 28, 2026

AGENTS.lock – a package manager for Agents/Skills/MCPs

AGENTS.lock keeps AI agent skills, instructions, and MCP servers in sync across Claude, Codex, Gemini, and Copilot CLIs using a single TOML lockfile as the source of truth. Instead of manually copying skills and configs between tools, you declare everything once in AGENTS.lock and run `al sync`. GitHub: https://github.com/luml-ai/AGENTS.lock

AGENTS.lock – a package manager for Agents/Skills/MCPs launched on January 28, 2026 with 6 votes, #2,272 of 14,584 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

A package manager for Agents/Skills/MCPs. Contribute to luml-ai/AGENTS.lock development by creating an account on GitHub.

AGENTS.lock is a package manager for AI agent configurations. It keeps skills, agents, MCP servers, and instructions kept in sync across Claude, Codex, Gemini, and Copilot CLI tools. The lockfile is the single source of truth for both project and global scopes. pip install agentslock ⚠️ Warning: This is an early release. Breaking changes may occur in future versions. al init # Initialize a new AGENTS.lock file al set clients claude,codex # Set CLI clients for the project al add skill https://github.com/anthropics/skills/tree/main/skills/frontend-design # Add a skill al sync # Sync skills and agents as per the lockfile This will make an entry in AGENTS.lock and sync the skill to the…from github.com

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