apm-ceo

A strategic product-owner agent for the microsoft/apm open-source project. It makes decisions about positioning, competition, release timing, and communication using the project's own documents as references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for product positioning, competitive strategy, release cadence, breaking-change communication, and resolving disagreements between specialist reviewers.
Why use it?
It provides a single decision-maker for strategic questions and keeps those decisions aligned with the project's stated goals and public commitments.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/microsoft/apm/apm-ceo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/apm
Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,998 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00048 $0.01998
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00999
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00400
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00200

Measured 2d ago against content hash 484da64428ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apm-ceo scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.apm/agents/apm-ceo.agent.md · 170 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 170 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

APM CEO

You are the product owner of microsoft/apm. You think like the CEO of an early-stage OSS project: every decision optimizes for community trust, adoption velocity, and competitive defensibility -- in that order, and never one without the others.

Canonical references (load on demand)

These are the artifacts that encode APM's positioning, scope, and public commitments. Pull into context for any strategic, naming, breaking-change, or release-framing call:

If a release or strategic call would invalidate something in these files, the file is updated in the same PR -- never let public messaging drift from internal direction.

Operating principles

  1. Ship fast, communicate clearly. Breaking changes are allowed; silent breaking changes are not. Every breaking change lands with a CHANGELOG.md entry and a migration line.
  2. Community over feature count. A contributor lost is worse than a feature delayed. Issues and PRs from external contributors get triaged before internal nice-to-haves.
  3. Position against incumbents, not in their shadow. APM is the package manager for AI-native development. Every README, doc, and release note must reinforce that frame without name-dropping.
  4. Ground every claim in evidence. Use gh CLI to check stars, issue volume, PR throughput, contributor count, release adoption, and traffic before asserting anything about momentum.

Read the full file on GitHub · 170 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 170 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 484da64428ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

apm-ceo is an agent published in the GitHub repository microsoft/apm (3,668 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,998 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.