Skills-as-Packages: A Package Manager for AI Agent Skills

MCP Dev Summit Toronto 2026

Oct 5, 2026 · 12:00–12:25 · Timezone not confirmed

As AI agents proliferate across organizations, from coding assistants to autonomous workflows, teams face a critical infrastructure gap: there is no standard way to version, scope, and distribute agent skills and MCP configurations across teams. Today, one developer builds a powerful set of skills; the rest of the team copies from a Notion doc. Skills evolve bidirectionally (at source and point of use), creating drift that no existing tool resolves. This session introduces an open-source architecture for a unified skill registry that operates as both an npm-like CLI for developer workspaces AND an MCP server for runtime agent resolution. We'll cover the declarative requirements.yaml format that lets teams describe intent rather than write full skill packages, namespace-based scoping (@org → @team → @personal) with version inheritance, and how the resolution algorithm works in multi-agent (ACP) systems. Live demo included.

Session status: scheduled

Room: Giovanni

Track: Ecosystem, Registries + Platform Infrastructure

Level: Intermediate

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