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Now that Packmind contains coding standards, commands, and skills, let’s distribute them to your Git Repositories. The distribution will commit instructions files that will be used by AI Agents (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.).

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Supported AI Agents

Packmind supports multiple AI coding assistants. Organization administrators can choose which agents to enable in Settings → Distribution → Rendering. See Manage AI Agent Rendering for details. For a detailed breakdown of where standards, commands, and skills appear for each AI assistant, see Understanding Where Your Artifacts Appear.
Default skills included — All distributions automatically include Packmind’s default skills (such as packmind-create-skill for creating new skills with AI assistance). These are added alongside your package contents regardless of which distribution method you use.
Need support for a new AI agent? You can create an issue in our repository to request support for additional AI coding assistants.

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How to Distribute

There are two ways to distribute packages to your repositories:
  1. Using the Packmind app - Distribute packages through the web interface with full control over targets and repositories
  2. Using packmind-cli - Install packages directly from your terminal, useful for CI/CD pipelines and local development

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Distribution Methods Overview

MethodBest ForGit Provider Management
AppCentralized distribution, team coordinationFull control via connected Git providers
CLICI/CD pipelines, local developmentCreates read-only provider entries

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Distribute via the App

To distribute standards, commands, and skills, you need to add them to a package. A package is a curated collection of commands, standards, and skills grouped together (e.g., “Frontend React Standards”, “Backend API Guidelines”). When you distribute a package:
  • All commands, standards, and skills in the package are distributed together
  • The latest version of each item is used
  • A single commit contains all the package content
  • You can distribute multiple packages at once to the same target
To distribute packages:
  1. Navigate to the Packages section
  2. Select the package(s) you want to distribute
  3. Click Distribute and choose your target repositories
  4. Confirm the Distribution
This approach is useful when you want to:
  • Distribute related guidelines together
  • Maintain consistent sets of standards across projects
  • Organize guidelines by technology, team, or project structure
For more information on creating and managing packages, see Packages Management.

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Distribute via packmind-cli

You can also distribute packages directly from your terminal using the packmind-cli command: 
packmind-cli install <package-slug>
For example: 
packmind-cli install backend-standards frontend-react
This will:
  1. Fetch the specified packages from Packmind
  2. Generate the instruction files for all enabled AI agents
  3. Write the files to your local repository
  4. Notify Packmind that a distribution occurred

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CLI Distribution Considerations

When you distribute packages using the CLI, Packmind automatically creates a Git provider entry to track the distribution. However, these CLI-created providers have some limitations:
Limited Provider Management — Git providers created through CLI distributions do not have an associated token. This means you cannot trigger new distributions from the app for these repositories, you cannot add new targets to these providers from the app, and the provider appears in your organization’s Git settings but with limited functionality. To enable full management from the app, connect a Git provider with a valid token in Settings → Git Providers.

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When to Use CLI Distribution

The CLI approach is ideal for:
  • CI/CD pipelines - Automate distribution as part of your deployment process
  • Local development - Quickly install packages without leaving your terminal
  • Monorepos - Use packmind-cli install --recursive to install packages for all packmind.json files in the repository
  • Self-hosted Git instances - Distribute to repositories that aren’t connected to the app

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Removing Packages

When you no longer need a package in your repository, you can remove it using either the app or the CLI.

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Remove via the App

In the Packmind app, you can remove packages one-by-one from your distributions:
  1. Navigate to the Packages section
  2. Open the package you want to remove
  3. Click Remove from target and confirm the removal

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Remove via the CLI

There are two ways to remove packages using the CLI: Option 1: Use the remove command 
packmind-cli remove <package-slug>
For example: 
packmind-cli remove backend-standards
Option 2: Edit packmind.json and reinstall
  1. Open your packmind.json file
  2. Remove the package slug from the packages list
  3. Run the install command to update your repository:
packmind-cli install
This approach is useful when you want to make multiple changes to your package configuration at once.