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Central AI Agent Managed Packages - unified provider registry and package manager for AI coding agents Use when: (1) running caamp CLI commands, (2) calling its 276 API functions, (3) configuring @cleocode/caamp, (4) understanding its 180 type definitions, (5) working with its 8 classes, (6) user mentions "ai", "agent", "skills", "cli", "claude", (7) user mentions "@cleocode/caamp" or asks about its API.

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@cleocode/caamp

Central AI Agent Managed Packages - unified provider registry and package manager for AI coding agents

Quick Start

npm install -D @cleocode/caamp

npx caamp --help

API

FunctionDescription
getPlatformPaths()Get OS-appropriate paths for CAAMP's global directories.
getSystemInfo()Get a cached system information snapshot.
_resetPlatformPathsCache()Invalidate the path and system info caches. Use in tests after mutating AGENTS_HOME env var.
getPlatformLocations()Resolves platform-specific directory locations for the current OS.
getAgentsHome()Returns the global agents home directory path.
getProjectAgentsDir()Returns the project-local .agents directory path.
resolveProjectPath()Resolves a relative path against a project directory.
getCanonicalSkillsDir()Returns the canonical skills storage directory path.
getLockFilePath()Returns the path to the CAAMP lock file.
getAgentsMcpDir()Gets the MCP directory within the .agents/ standard structure.
getAgentsMcpServersPath()Gets the MCP servers.json path within the .agents/ standard structure.
getAgentsInstructFile()Gets the primary AGENTS.md instruction file path within .agents/.
getAgentsConfigPath()Gets the config.toml path within the .agents/ standard structure.
getAgentsWikiDir()Gets the wiki directory within the .agents/ standard structure.
getAgentsSpecDir()Gets the spec directory within the .agents/ standard structure.
...261 more — see API reference

Configuration

import type { DetectionConfig } from "@cleocode/caamp";

const config: Partial<DetectionConfig> = {
  // Detection methods to try, in order.
  methods: [],
  // Binary name to look up on PATH (for `"binary"` method).
  binary: "...",
  // Directories to check for existence (for `"directory"` method).
  directories: "...",
  // macOS .app bundle name (for `"appBundle"` method).
  appBundle: "...",
  // Flatpak application ID (for `"flatpak"` method).
  flatpakId: "...",
};

See references/CONFIGURATION.md for full details.

Gotchas

  • HookEvent is deprecated: Use CanonicalHookEvent from ../hooks/types.js for the normalized CAAMP taxonomy. This type remains for backward compatibility with registry.json's capabilities.hooks.supported string arrays.
  • CtSkillEntry is deprecated: Use SkillLibraryEntry instead.
  • CtValidationResult is deprecated: Use SkillLibraryValidationResult instead.
  • CtValidationIssue is deprecated: Use SkillLibraryValidationIssue instead.
  • CtProfileDefinition is deprecated: Use SkillLibraryProfile instead.
  • CtDispatchMatrix is deprecated: Use SkillLibraryDispatchMatrix instead.
  • CtManifest is deprecated: Use SkillLibraryManifest instead.
  • CtManifestSkill is deprecated: Use SkillLibraryManifestSkill instead.
  • resolveProvidersRegistryPath() throws: Error if providers/registry.json cannot be found within 8 parent levels
  • ensureProviderInstructionFile() throws: Error if the provider ID is not found in the registry
  • ensureAllProviderInstructionFiles() throws: Error if any provider ID is not found in the registry
  • resolveTierDir() throws: Error when tier='project' and no projectDir is supplied
  • resolveDefaultTargetProviders() throws: PiRequiredError when mode is 'force-pi' and Pi is not installed.
  • resolveFormat() throws: Error if format flags conflict
  • readConfig() throws: If the file cannot be read or the format is unsupported
  • writeConfig() throws: If the format is unsupported
  • removeConfig() throws: If the format is unsupported
  • installMcpServer() throws: Error when the provider has no MCP capability or no project-scoped config path is available.
  • requireMcpProvider() throws: LAFSCommandError when the provider is unknown or has no MCP capability.
  • parseScope() throws: LAFSCommandError when raw is set to an invalid value.
  • parseEnvAssignment() throws: LAFSCommandError when the token is malformed.
  • fetchWithTimeout() throws: NetworkError on timeout or network failure
  • ensureOkResponse() throws: NetworkError when response.ok is false
  • requirePiHarness() throws: LAFSCommandError when Pi is not installed.
  • parseScope() throws: LAFSCommandError when raw is set to an invalid value.
  • recommendSkills() throws: Error with code and issues properties when criteria are invalid
  • loadLibraryFromModule() throws: If the module cannot be loaded or does not implement SkillLibrary
  • buildLibraryFromFiles() throws: If skills.json is not found at the root
  • registerSkillLibraryFromPath() throws: Error if the library cannot be loaded from the given path

Key Types

  • SkillLibraryEntry — A single skill entry in a library catalog.
  • SkillLibraryValidationResult — Validation result from skill frontmatter validation.
  • SkillLibraryValidationIssue — A single validation issue.
  • SkillLibraryProfile — Profile definition for grouped skill installation.
  • SkillLibraryDispatchMatrix — Dispatch matrix for task routing to skills.
  • SkillLibraryManifestSkill — Skill entry within the library manifest.
  • SkillLibraryManifest — Full manifest structure for a skill library.
  • SkillLibrary — Standard interface for a skill library. Any directory or module providing skills must implement this contract. CAAMP uses it to discover, resolve, and install skills from any source.
  • RegistryDetection — Raw detection configuration as stored in registry.json.
  • ProviderPriority — Priority tier identifier stored in registry.json.

References