# Package managers for coding agents

> 1 agent package managers ranked by the Anchor benchmark. Leader Agentpack (C). Tools that install, pin and share what coding agents load, skills, plugins, MCP servers and settings, across several agents and machines, the way a lockfile pins a project's libraries. Compared on what they pin and how (versions, commits or content hashes), which agents they stage for, what runs at install time, and what they share between machines.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/agent-packages
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/agent-packages.md (~900 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/agent-packages.min.md (~230 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/agent-packages.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (the key docs and every listing in one file, at most 16 MB, about 4 million tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key)
- DNS: dig +short TXT <slug>.grade.anchorterminal.com (the grade as a DNS TXT record, for a sandbox with no HTTP where names still resolve; also top., best.<category>. and <a>.vs.<b>. under the zone, and the same under grade.letme.dev)
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)
- Updated: 2026-11-01

Tools that install, pin and share what coding agents load, skills, plugins, MCP servers and settings, across several agents and machines, the way a lockfile pins a project's libraries. Compared on what they pin and how (versions, commits or content hashes), which agents they stage for, what runs at install time, and what they share between machines.

- Tools ranked: 1 · agent-ready (BB or better): 0 · accept x402: 0 · hosted endpoints: 0 · desk reviews by the panel: 0
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools.json (list) · https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/rankings.json (ranked) · https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/x402.json (payable) · https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/capabilities.json (by capability)
- Grades run AA, A, BB, B, C, D, E, F · methodology: https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/

- Capabilities in this category: agent.packages, agent.mcp-client, agent.multi-agent
- https://letme.dev/agent.packages picks the top-graded tool in this list and says how to call it direct (https://www.anchorterminal.com/letme/index.md)

## Ranking

| # | Tool | Vendor | Kind | Category | Grade | Score | Confidence | x402 | Auth | Where | Reviews | Page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 759 | Agentpack | Oleg Pustovit | Agent harness | Packages | C | 56.4 | medium | no | OAuth | local | none | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentpack.md |

Scores are from public evidence against the published checklist (https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/), with Performance and Task success pending. p95 latency and context cost come from our probes, which haven't run yet.

## Summaries

### 759. Agentpack, C (56.4)

Agentpack is an MIT-licensed Go CLI that pins skills, plugins and MCP servers in a lockfile and stages them for seven coding agents. Its gateway runs agent sessions across a person's Tailscale machines and answers MCP at `/mcp`. A Go CLI that locks agent skills, plugins and MCP servers by commit and content hash and stages them for seven coding agents, with dated release notes. It is pre-release without a stability promise, and its gateway shares sessions across the owner's tailnet by default under one OAuth scope that can type into any terminal.

- Page: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentpack · Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentpack.md · JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agentpack.json
- Capabilities: agent.packages, agent.multi-agent

## How we test this category

The same set of skills, plugins and MCP servers added to a fresh project, synced into two coding agents on two machines, then one upstream skill changed. We check that both agents get identical files, that the change waits until it's updated on purpose, what runs during install, and what crosses between the machines. This test hasn't run yet, so Task success is pending and the grades here come from the categories assessed from public evidence.


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Query this catalogue directly over MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no key). How: https://www.anchorterminal.com/agents/#mcp