Manage via coding agent
Manage via coding agent
Section titled “Manage via coding agent”After initialization, you do not need to memorize Agents Pack commands. Talk to Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor about the outcome you want.
The first agents-pack init is the exception: run it yourself because the management skill is installed by that command.
Required management skills
Section titled “Required management skills”Every installation includes:
| Skill | Role |
|---|---|
ap-manage-agents-pack |
Inspect health, list/install/remove components, create or sync user components, fork, update, pin, roll back, and verify |
ap-create-new-skill |
Create one canonical user-owned skill and synchronize it for every selected provider |
The management skill teaches the agent that the CLI is the source of truth. It must not work around lifecycle protections or edit generated provider copies directly.
Example requests
Section titled “Example requests”Inspect without changing anything
Section titled “Inspect without changing anything”Check my Agents Pack installation and explain whether everything is healthy.Do not change anything.Show me which frontend-related components are available and recommend whichones fit this project.Preview before apply
Section titled “Preview before apply”Install the ap-frontend-design skill. Preview the change first and wait for myapproval before applying it.Check whether a new Agents Pack content version is available. Summarize therelease notes, but do not update anything yet.Create or customize
Section titled “Create or customize”Fork ap-debug into a user-owned skill named my-debug, then show me whichcanonical file I should customize.Create a read-only subagent named release-checker that reviews releasecorrectness and deployment risk. Make it available to all coding agentsconfigured in this repository.Create a reusable Agents Pack skill named deploy-app. It should guide an agentthrough safely deploying this project to staging or production, includingpreflight checks and post-deployment verification.Routine maintenance
Section titled “Routine maintenance”Synchronize my user-owned Agents Pack components, then verify that everymanaged file is clean.If the agent does not select the skill automatically
Section titled “If the agent does not select the skill automatically”Name it explicitly:
Use ap-manage-agents-pack to check for available updates and explain whatwould change. Do not apply the update.Use ap-create-new-skill to create a portable skill for reviewing databasemigrations before deployment.These are skills, not special chat commands. How your coding agent shows or invokes skills may differ, but the natural-language request can stay the same across Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.
When to use the CLI directly
Section titled “When to use the CLI directly”Running the CLI yourself is useful when you want exact control, are writing automation, your coding agent is unavailable, or you are diagnosing a lifecycle or ownership problem. The management skills use the same public CLI documented in the other guides.