APM provides a manifest-based approach to configuring AI coding assistants across teams. Developers declare agent dependencies like skills, plugins, MCP servers, and agent primitives in an apm.yml file, and the tool resolves and installs them consistently across environments. It enables reproducible AI agent setups via transitive dependency resolution similar to npm or pip, supporting the full ecosystem of AI coding tools including Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Codex.