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an open-source package manager for AI skills, MCPs, and commands
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HN · launched May 15, 2026 · 50 upvotes (top 16%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent skill registries · 411 launches, 23 in the last 7 days ▼ -34% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A CLI package manager that fetches git repositories, downloads MCP manifests, and updates local configuration files is a standard scripting task well-suited for AI assistance.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Existing package managers (npm, etc.), aipack (similar tool on GitHub), GuardRails/Beads, RTK (Rust Token Killer)
Concerns raised: Non-technical users struggle with Git workflows for sharing skills, Skills often have dependencies on each other, not truly independent, Another package manager may fragment ecosystem further, Most skills are tightly coupled to internal company systems, not generalizable, Distributing Go/Rust binaries via npm is problematic
Feature requests: Local config creation/export/import for team sharing without Git, Non-tech user interface for sharing skills/documents (no Git required), Auto-update mechanism for packaged plugins via MCP, Dependency management between skills, Support for distributing non-npm binary tools (Go, Rust)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 5468 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #800 of 5469 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 198 days after the earliest competitor.
- Vehla · hn · 2026-09-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- ai-manager · github · 2026-09-21 · 211 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- crissp · github · 2026-11-05 · 47 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Cook · hn · 2026-03-05 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Flint · hn · 2026-08-29 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- ai-config · github · 2026-11-03 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Mthds · hn · 2026-02-26 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- teku · github · 2026-10-22 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.64
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