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holocron/plugins/kyberforge/.apm/skills/apm-install/SKILL.md
Defame1297 5e232503c4 feat(kyberforge): execute plugin-to-apm marketplace conversion
Why:
ADR-0015 established that Microsoft APM (apm.yml + .apm/) should replace
this repo's hand-authored plugin.json/marketplace.json model, with those
files becoming compiled output of `apm pack` instead of files edited by
hand via the (now-retired) plugin-author/marketplace-author skills.
Issue #90 was the deferred execution of that decision, gated on #88
(apm tooling) and #89 (apm-native agent-author/skill-author routing).

Implementation notes:
- All six plugins (bin, core, git, gitea, kyberforge, lint) now carry
  apm.yml + .apm/{skills,agents,hooks} as their authoring source. Skills
  moved with a plain git mv (content-identical across targets). Agents
  were re-authored, not moved: per ADR-0016, .apm/agents/*.agent.md
  compiles verbatim to both Claude and Copilot, so plugin-scope agents
  now carry only name/description/model/source_keys -- no tools: field,
  no Claude-only knobs (isolation, maxTurns, effort, memory,
  permissionMode).
- Root apm.yml registers all 7 marketplace packages (6 local plus
  mattpocock-skills as a remote entry) under versioning: per_package,
  matching this repo's existing independent-plugin-versioning practice.
- .claude-plugin/marketplace.json and every plugin's plugin.json are now
  apm-pack-compiled output, verified against the prior hand-maintained
  content: same names/descriptions/versions/licenses/authors, only
  cosmetic serialization differences (JSON key order, owner email vs.
  url, Unicode escaping).
- plugin-author and marketplace-author are retired now that apm-based
  authoring fully replaces their job; kyberforge bumped 1.3.1 -> 1.4.0
  for that removal, and the root marketplace catalog bumped
  0.3.1 -> 0.3.2 to match, per the version-bump convention now
  documented in apm-workflow's reference docs instead of a dedicated
  script (apm has no native version-bump automation).
- Fixed hardcoded pre-.apm/ path assumptions across
  .pre-commit-config.yaml, .pre-commit-hooks.yaml,
  scripts/check-scope-walkup-sync.sh, scripts/sync-vale-styles.sh,
  scripts/check-vale-style-sync.sh, six plugins' root plugin.json
  (stale skills/hooks/agents pointer fields that check-manifests.sh
  validates), and several tests/*.bats and tests/*.sh fixtures --
  including a bats REPO_ROOT relative-path depth bug (10 files, one
  extra .apm/ directory level to walk up) and a vale probe-path
  isolation regression introduced mid-fix.
- Corrected empirically-wrong assumptions surfaced this session in
  apm-workflow/apm-install's own reference docs: `apm marketplace
  package add` does not accept local paths (only owner/repo remote
  shorthand -- local packages are registered by editing apm.yml's
  marketplace.packages[] directly); `apm compile` is a consumer-side
  AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md generator, not the plugin.json producer, and
  hard-fails on skill/agent-only packages without --clean; `apm plugin
  init <name>` nests a stray subdirectory when run with a positional
  name arg from inside a same-named directory; no native Copilot
  marketplace output profile exists; .mcp.json is merged into the
  compiled plugin.json content-aware and target-scoped, with no
  dependencies.mcp entry needed for simple passthrough; pipx is the
  correct pip fallback on externally-managed Python environments.
- Renamed agent-author's copilot.agent.md template asset to
  copilot.agent.md.template so apm compile's recursive *.agent.md glob
  stops misparsing the placeholder template as a real agent primitive.

Impact:
plugin.json and marketplace.json are compiled artifacts from here on --
editing them by hand is no longer the workflow; edit apm.yml/.apm/ and
run apm pack. CONTEXT.md's Plugin/Plugin marketplace glossary entries
reflect this. ADR-0001 is marked superseded, ADR-0006 moot, and
ADR-0010 updated for the new .apm/agents/ path (project/user scope
unaffected, per ADR-0016). Full local verification: claude plugin
validate --strict on all 6 plugins, apm audit --ci, apm marketplace
check, check-manifests.sh, and the full test suite (165/165 bats,
13/13 shell scripts) all pass clean.

Fixes: #90
Refs: #88, #89
ADR: 0015
ADR: 0016

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ub96PyaSRD9BHPktotj1pC
2026-08-12 18:21:24 +00:00

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name, description, metadata
name description metadata
apm-install Use when the user wants to install the apm (Agent Package Manager) CLI itself, pin or upgrade its version, set up an air-gapped/enterprise mirror install, or install and manage an agent runtime that apm drives (Copilot CLI, Codex, Gemini, generic llm) — "install apm", "set up apm", "pin apm to a version", "apm runtime setup", "which runtime will apm run pick". Do not use for authoring apm.yml, scaffolding a package/marketplace, compiling, packing, publishing, or running apm audit — use apm-workflow for those.
category source_keys
apm
context7-microsoft-apm

Gotchas

  • apm does not execute agents itself — it only installs and manages the runtimes that do. "Install apm" and "install a runtime apm manages" are two separate steps; don't conflate them or skip the second when the user actually wants a working agent CLI, not just the package manager.
  • The air-gapped/enterprise mirror path needs GITHUB_URL and VERSION set together against a downloaded install.sh — it does not work through the piped one-liner form.
  • pip install apm-cli requires Python 3.10+; the quick-install script has no such prerequisite. Prefer the quick-install script unless the environment is pip-first.
  • On a Debian/externally-managed Python environment (PEP 668), pip install apm-cli fails immediately with error: externally-managed-environment. Fall back to pipx install apm-cli — same PyPI package, but pipx creates an isolated venv and correctly exposes the apm binary on PATH.
  • Installing the Copilot CLI runtime through apm runtime setup copilot requires Node.js v22+ and npm v10+ already present — apm does not install Node/npm for you.

Install apm

Default:

curl -sSL https://aka.ms/apm-unix | sh

Escape hatches — combine as needed:

  • Pin a version: append @vX.Y.Z to the piped script's arguments, e.g. curl -sSL https://aka.ms/apm-unix | sh -s -- @v1.2.3.
  • Custom install directory: set APM_INSTALL_DIR on the piped script's command, e.g. curl -sSL https://aka.ms/apm-unix | APM_INSTALL_DIR=$HOME/.local/bin sh.
  • Air-gapped / GitHub Enterprise mirror: download install.sh first, then run it with GITHUB_URL and VERSION set, e.g. GITHUB_URL=https://github.corp.com VERSION=v1.2.3 sh install.sh.
  • pip (Python 3.10+ environments): pip install apm-cli.
  • pipx (externally-managed/PEP 668 environments where plain pip install fails, e.g. Debian): pipx install apm-cli.
  • Manual: download the platform archive from the GitHub releases page, extract, place the binary on PATH.

Verify with apm --version.

Install or manage an agent runtime

Default:

apm runtime setup copilot

Other targets: apm runtime setup codex, apm runtime setup gemini, apm runtime setup llm.

  • apm runtime list — show installed runtimes.
  • apm runtime status — show which runtime apm run will pick by default.
  • apm runtime remove <name> -y — uninstall without an interactive prompt.