AIPM (AI Plugin Manager) - Abhishek Srivastava (TheLarkInn)

AIPM (AI Plugin Manager)

Abhishek Srivastava (TheLarkInn) · Developer Productivity & Workflow · Updated Sep 1, 2026

A production-grade package manager designed for AI plugin primitives like skills, agents, MCP servers, and hooks. It provides a structured, TOML-based ecosystem for managing AI tool configurations, featuring semver resolution, integrity verification, and cross-stack compatibility.

Recent Updates

The project continues to evolve its CLI capabilities (aipm and aipm-pack binaries) and core library (libaipm) to support robust workspaces, with recent development focused on resolving dependency graph logic and enhancing security guardrails.

As of Sep 1, 2026

Key Features

Cargo-style semver resolution and lockfile management
Content-addressable global plugin store for disk savings
Integrity verification using SHA-512 checksums
Strict dependency isolation and security allowlisting
Cross-stack support for.NET, Python, Node.js, and Rust

Who It's For

✓ Best For

Engineering teams and developers needing production-grade, reliable management of AI agents and plugin primitives across varied technology stacks.

✗ Not Ideal For

Users looking for high-level prompting assistants or UI-layer tools (e.g., prompting libraries for ChatGPT), which are unrelated to this developer-focused packaging infrastructure.

Pricing

Open Source

Open-source (MIT License).

Verdict

AIPM is an essential, infrastructure-level utility for serious AI developers moving beyond prototype scripts, offering a mature alternative to manual git-ref pinning and unverified dependency management.

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