packmanager

The real CLI behind packmanager.dev — installs curated Skills and MCPs for your AI coding agent.

npx packmanager install --skills taste-skill --mcps context7
npx packmanager install --profile developer
npx packmanager status

What this does, honestly

• Skills: downloads the exact verified source repo/subpath from GitHub (no git required) and drops it into .claude/skills/<id>/ (or ~/.claude/skills/<id>/ with --global).
• MCPs: merges a real, verified server entry into .mcp.json at the project root — never overwrites an existing, different entry for the same id.
• Only packages with a verified source in the catalog are installable. Everything else in the wider packmanager.dev catalog is still demo/unverified and will fail loudly rather than pretend to succeed — see catalog/catalog.json's coverage vs. the web repo's src/lib/registry.ts.

Development

npm install
npm run build      # tsup -> dist/cli.js
npm link           # exposes `packmanager` globally for local testing
npm run typecheck
npm test

Catalog

catalog/catalog.json is vendored from the Packmanager web repo's npm run export:catalog — copy it over manually and bump the version whenever the web repo's verified real packages change. This is a deliberate manual seam (see that repo's docs/ARCHITECTURE.md, "repos séparés" decision) — no shared code or live API between the two repos yet.

Commands (v1)

• install [--skills a,b] [--mcps c,d] [--profile id] [--exclude x,y] [--global] [--dry-run]
• status [--global]
• add <id> [--global] — installs one package and records it in packmanager.json
• remove <id> [--global] — uninstalls one package and drops it from packmanager.json
• sync [--global] [--dry-run] [--skills-only] [--mcps-only] — installs everything listed in packmanager.json (skills, mcps, profile, minus excluded) that isn't already present. Does not remove packages that are installed but no longer listed — use remove explicitly for that.
• update [--skills a,b] [--mcps c,d] [--profile id] [--exclude x,y] [--global] [--dry-run] [--skills-only] [--mcps-only] — re-fetches and reinstalls packages. With no target flags, updates everything currently installed (scanned from disk). Unlike install, overwrites an existing MCP entry even if it differs from the catalog — refreshing to the latest known config is the point.

v1 has no installed-version metadata, so update always re-fetches rather than skipping packages that are already current — meaningful once catalog.json itself gets refreshed pinned refs at release time.