--- title: Packaging GitHub Copilot Agents and Skills with Agent... description: Agent Package Manager (APM) solves the problem of sharing GitHub Copilot agents and skills across repositories without drift. Instead of manually copying files... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/packaging-github-copilot-agents-and-skills-with-agent-package-manager-jw0lzvj7f twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Packaging GitHub Copilot Agents and Skills with Agent Package Manager | daily.dev og:description: Agent Package Manager (APM) solves the problem of sharing GitHub Copilot agents and skills across repositories without drift. Instead of manually copying files... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/packaging-github-copilot-agents-and-skills-with-agent-package-manager-jw0lzvj7f og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jW0LZVj7f.png og:image:alt: Packaging GitHub Copilot Agents and Skills with Agent Package Manager og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Packaging GitHub Copilot Agents and Skills with Agent Package Manager **[Thomas Thornton](https://daily.dev/sources/thomasthornton)** · 13 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Agent Package Manager (APM) solves the problem of sharing GitHub Copilot agents and skills across repositories without drift. Instead of manually copying files into .github/agents and .github/skills, APM provides a proper packaging model with versioning, dependency management, and runtime-aware installation. The post walks through a practical setup using scenario-based packages (architect, terraform, diagramming) that reference a single .github source of truth, and shows how APM can also configure MCP servers like Draw.io and Excalidraw as part of the install. The key insight is that agents and skills should be treated as platform engineering concerns with the same design thinking applied to other shared infrastructure. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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