stakpak/paks

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What is Paks?

Paks is a CLI-first package manager for Agent Skills — reusable instruction sets that enhance AI coding agents like Stakpak, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, Goose, and more.

The CLI is your primary interface for:

• 🛠️ Creating new skills with proper structure
• 📥 Installing skills from the registry, git repos, or local paths
• 🚀 Publishing skills to share with the community
• 🔍 Managing skills across multiple AI agents

The Web Registry provides a browsable interface to discover and explore published skills.

Why Paks?

AI coding agents are powerful, but they need context. Skills provide that context — coding standards, deployment procedures, API patterns, and domain knowledge. Paks makes it easy to:

• Share expertise — Package your team’s best practices as installable skills
• Stay consistent — Install the same skills across all your AI agents
• Build on others’ work — Discover and use community-created skills
• Version and iterate — Semantic versioning for skill updates

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Installation

Homebrew (macOS & Linux)

brew tap stakpak/stakpak
brew install paks

Download Binary

Pre-built binaries are available for all major platforms on the Releases page:

# Example: Download and install on Linux x86_64
curl -L https://github.com/stakpak/paks/releases/latest/download/paks-linux-x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz
sudo mv paks /usr/local/bin/

From Source (Rust)

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/stakpak/paks.git
cd paks

# Build the CLI
cargo build --release -p paks-cli

# The binary will be at ./target/release/paks
# Move it to your PATH
cp ./target/release/paks ~/.local/bin/

Verify Installation

paks --version
paks --help

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Quick Start