AI Agent Infrastructure: APM, Skills, and Context Optimization
Published on 07.04.2026
GitHub - microsoft/apm: Agent Package Manager
TLDR: APM is an open-source dependency manager for AI agents—think package.json but for agent configuration, skills, plugins, and MCP servers with transitive dependency resolution and reproducible setups.
GitHub - microsoft/apm: Agent Package Manager
Agent Skills 101: a practical guide for engineers
TLDR: Skills are executable procedure packages—YAML metadata plus markdown instructions plus optional scripts and templates—that teach AI agents how to do your team's work the way you do it, following an open SKILL.md standard across 20+ platforms.
Agent Skills 101: a practical guide for engineers
GitHub - mksglu/context-mode: Context window optimization for AI coding agents
TLDR: Context Mode sandboxes tool output (98% reduction), tracks session continuity via SQLite with FTS5 indexing, and enforces sandbox-first execution across 12+ platforms.
GitHub - mksglu/context-mode: Context window optimization for AI coding agents