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A Package Manager for the AgentSkills standard. Discover, Use, and Create AgentSkills with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode and more
A CLI package manager for discovering, installing, and publishing reusable AI agent skills across multiple coding agents.
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The package manager for AI Agent Skills
Create, install, publish, and share skills across AI coding agents.
License: Apache 2.0 ↗ Rust ↗ View source image ↗
Installation • Quick Start • CLI Reference • Registry • Contributing
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Paks is a CLI-first package manager for Agent Skills — reusable instruction sets that enhance AI coding agents like Stakpak, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, Goose, and more.
The CLI is your primary interface for:
The Web Registry provides a browsable interface to discover and explore published skills.
AI coding agents are powerful, but they need context. Skills provide that context — coding standards, deployment procedures, API patterns, and domain knowledge. Paks makes it easy to:
brew tap stakpak/stakpak
brew install paks
Pre-built binaries are available fo
<div align="center"> # 📦 Paks **The package manager for AI Agent Skills** Create, install, publish, and share skills across AI coding agents. [](LICENSE) [](https://www.rust-lang.org/) <a href="https://discord.gg/QTZjETP7GB"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Discord-Join%20Community-5865F2?logo=discord&logoColor=white&style=flat-square" /></a> [Installation](#installation) • [Quick Start](#quick-start) • [CLI Reference](#cli-reference) • [Registry](#registry) • [Contributing](#contributing) ⭐ Help us reach more developers and grow the Paks community. Star this repo! </div> --- ## What is Paks? Paks is a CLI-first package manager for [Agent Skills](https://agentskills.io) — reusable instruction sets that enhance AI coding agents like Stakpak, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, Goose, and more. **The CLI** is your primary interface for: - 🛠️ **Creating** new skills with proper structure - 📥 **Installing** skills from the registry, git repos, or local paths - 🚀 **Publishing** skills to share with the community - 🔍 **Managing** skills across multiple AI agents **The Web Registry** provides a browsable interface to discover and explore published skills. ## Why Paks? AI coding agents are powerful, but they need context. Skills provide that context — coding standards, deployment procedures, API patterns, and domain knowledge. Paks makes it easy to: - **Share expertise** — Package your team's best practices as installable skills - **Stay consistent** — Install the same skills across all your AI agents - **Build on others' work** — Discover and use community-created skills - **Version and iterate** — Semantic versioning for skill updates --- ## Installation ### Homebrew (macOS & Linux) ```bash brew tap stakpak/stakpak brew install paks ``` ### Download Binary Pre-built binaries are available fo
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Quality
69/100
Promising
Trust
66/100
Sandbox only
Audit
78/100
Needs review
This page exposes the same decision, trust, audit, use-case, and install signals through the Registry API, so agents can rank this skill without scraping the UI.
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