AIPM — AI Plugin Manager

A production-grade package manager for AI plugin primitives (skills, agents, MCP servers, hooks). Think npm/Cargo, but purpose-built for the AI plugin ecosystem.

AIPM ships as two Rust binaries:

• aipm — consumer CLI: install, validate, doctor
• aipm-pack — author CLI: scaffold, pack, publish, yank

Both work across .NET, Python, Node.js, and Rust monorepos with no runtime dependency.

Key Features

• TOML manifest (aipm.toml) — human-editable, AI-generation safe, no indentation traps
• Content-addressable global store — pnpm-inspired deduplication across projects
• Strict dependency isolation — only declared dependencies are accessible
• Deterministic lockfile (aipm.lock) — exact tree structure with integrity hashes
• Semver dependency resolution — backtracking solver with version unification
• Registry model — publish, install, yank, search, scoped packages
• Workspace support — workspace protocol, filtering, catalogs
• Cross-platform — Windows junction support, works in any monorepo

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Rust 1.70+

Build from Source

cargo build --workspace

Scaffold a New Plugin

aipm-pack init my-plugin

This generates an aipm.toml manifest and a starter project structure.

Run Tests

cargo test --workspace

Project Structure

crates/
  aipm/         CLI binary (consumer: install, validate, doctor)
  aipm-pack/    CLI binary (author: init, pack, publish, yank)
  libaipm/      Shared library (manifest parsing, validation, store)
specs/          Technical design documents
tests/features/ Cucumber BDD feature files (220+ scenarios)

Contributing

Contributions and suggestions are welcome! Please open an issue or pull request on GitHub.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.