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What are Packages?

A Package is a curated collection of commands, standards, and skills grouped together. Packages organize your artifacts in a way that matches how your team actually works—whether by technology, domain, team, or architectural layer. Instead of managing dozens of individual items, packages let you group related artifacts and distribute them as a single unit.

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How to Distribute Packages

There are two ways to distribute packages to your team:
  1. Install locally via CLI - Download packages directly to your local machine (no Git required)
  2. Distribute to Git repositories - Push packages to your repositories (requires Git configuration)
These are alternative distribution methods—you can choose the approach that fits your workflow. You don’t need to use both.

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Creating Packages

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Via Web Interface

  1. Navigate to Packages in the Packmind UI
  2. Click Create Package
  3. Provide a name and description
  4. Select commands, standards, and skills to include
  5. Save the package

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Via CLI

Create an empty package from the command line: 
packmind-cli packages create "My Package" -d "Package description"
See the CLI documentation for details.

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Adding Items to Packages

There are several ways to add items to packages:
  • Via CLI — Use packmind-cli packages add to add existing standards, commands, or skills to a package: 
    packmind-cli packages add --to backend --standard error-handling
packmind-cli packages add --to backend --command create-api-endpoint
packmind-cli packages add --to backend --skill debugging-workflow
  • Via MCP — Include the packageSlugs parameter when creating commands or standards via the MCP server
  • Via Web Interface — Add items to packages through the Packmind UI

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Using Packages

Once you’ve created packages, you can distribute them using either of these methods:

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Option 1: Install Locally

Download package content directly to your machine using the CLI: 
packmind-cli install --list

packmind-cli install backend-api frontend-web
This creates the appropriate files for your AI coding assistant on your local machine without requiring Git. See the CLI documentation for details.

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Option 2: Distribute to Repositories

Push packages to your Git repositories through the web interface:
  1. Navigate to Packages
  2. Select packages to distribute
  3. Choose target paths
  4. Click Distribute
All commands, standards, and skills in the package are committed together to your repository.
Default skills included — All distributions automatically include Packmind’s default skills (such as packmind-create-skill for creating new skills). These are added alongside your package contents.
Learn more in the Distribution documentation.

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Via MCP Server

AI agents can work with packages using these tools:
  • list_packages - View available packages
  • get_package_details - Inspect package contents
When creating commands or standards via MCP using save_command or save_standard, use the packageSlugs parameter to add them to packages automatically. See the MCP Server reference for details.

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Package Versions

Packages are dynamic collections without their own versions. When you distribute a package, it always includes the latest version of each command, standard, and skill it contains. To see which repositories have outdated versions, check the distribution overview.