APM is a package manager for AI-agent configuration, using a manifest to declare reusable instructions, skills, prompts, agents, hooks, plugins, and MCP components. Development teams use it to reproduce agent setups across projects and control their dependencies through policies and lockfiles, while the catalogue contains many of these agent components.
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.
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/apm/apm-triage-panelnpx skills add microsoft/apm --skill apm-triage-panelgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/apmWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/apm/apm-triage-panel)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/apm/apm-triage-panel"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/apm/apm-triage-panel.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00059 | $0.04833 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00030 | $0.02416 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00967 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00483 |
Grade A, and why
apm-triage-panel 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 6d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 429 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
APM Triage Panel -- Single-Issue Triage Orchestration
The panel is fixed at 2 mandatory specialist lenses + up to 3 conditional lenses + 1 always-active arbiter = 6 persona sections in one triage comment. You play each lens in turn from inside a single agent loop (progressive-disclosure skill model -- no sub-agent dispatch). Routing chooses which lenses execute; it never changes which headings appear in the final comment.
This skill mirrors the apm-review-panel orchestration shape on
purpose. Same single-comment discipline, same completeness gate, same
persona-pass procedure -- only the personas, the rubric, and the
output template differ.
Agent roster
| Agent | Persona | Always active? |
|---|---|---|
| DevX UX Expert | User-Need Reviewer | Yes |
| Supply Chain Security Expert | Risk-Surface Reviewer | Yes |
| APM CEO | Triage Arbiter | Yes (always arbitrates) |
| OSS Growth Hacker | Contributor-Tone Reviewer | Conditional (see below) |
| Python Architect | Architecture Reviewer | Conditional (see below) |
| Doc Writer | Documentation Reviewer | Conditional (see below) |
Skipped by default: CLI Logging Expert, Auth Expert. Triage operates
on issue intent, not on diffs -- those personas are invoked downstream
by apm-review-panel once a PR exists.
Routing topology
devx-ux-expert supply-chain-security-expert
\_______________________/
|
| <-- python-architect (conditional; design /
| architecture / new primitive / new schema)
|
| <-- doc-writer (conditional; docs work or
| user-facing change that needs new doc pages)
v
apm-ceo <---- oss-growth-hacker
(final call / arbiter) (conditional; tunes tone
when author is new)
What ships with it
2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 429 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 9be296adfad1
apm-triage-panel is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/apm (3,735 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 4,833 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.
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