Enact
A package manager for AI agent tools
Details
- External ID
- 46435383
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Enact
- Website domain
- enact.tools
- Launched
- Dec. 30, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2652671755725191
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I built a tool registry for AI agents.Problem: Agents need tools, but the current options are awkward. You either wire up tools manually in your codebase, or you spin up MCP servers that bundle more than you need. Neither is discoverable, shareable, or safe to run.Enact is a package manager for executable tools: enact search "web scraping" enact run enact/firecrawl --args '{"url": "https://example.com"}' Each tool is a SKILL.md manifest (typed input/output schemas) plus code in any language. Tools run in containers, so dependencies are declared and execution is isolated.Key differences from MCP: - Tools, not servers. Install one capability, not a bundle. - Registry with discovery. Agents can search for tools at runtime. - Containerized. Run untrusted tools safely. - Sigstore signing for trust.Live registry: https://enact.toolsCLI: npm install -g enact-cliSource: https://github.com/EnactProtocol/enactWould love feedback on the manifest format and whether this solves a real problem for folks building agents.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent frameworks and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- package manager for ai agent tools
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A tool registry and package manager frontend/backend is essentially a standard CRUD registry with metadata, auth, and package publishing CLI.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: agentskills.io specification
Concerns raised: Not respecting existing agentskills.io spec standard, Naming confusion with SKILL.md filename, Non-standard frontmatter fields deviating from spec, Incompatible name format (namespaced vs lowercase-only)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 189 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #160 of 190 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 40 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Agent MCP Studio · hn · 2026-04-25 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- AgentAccess · ph · 2026-09-19 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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