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AGENTS.lock

a package manager for Agents/Skills/MCPs

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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

HN · launched Jan 28, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 75%) · 0 views

Niche: software package managers · 51 launches, 1 in the last 7 days ▼ -89% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

Yes AGENTS.lock is a CLI package manager that parses a TOML lockfile and generates or syncs configuration files and skill directories across various CLI tools (Claude, Codex, Gemini).

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Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 958 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #838 of 959 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 75 days after the earliest competitor.

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  • agent-harness · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • mdm · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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  • DeadBolt · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • agentools.sh · ph · 2026-11-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • KeySkills - Skills for AI Agents · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49

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