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federated-agent-kits (Felix Schindler)

This is a tool reference

What a tool or project is, who makes it, and what it is for, whether someone else wrote it or I did. Everything I have learned about it lives elsewhere and links back here.

akit1 fetches a skill or a rule from the git repository it lives in, pins the commit, and writes the copy each harness expects. One line in a manifest replaces the several hand-made copies that would otherwise sit in several files and drift apart. It is Felix's, and it is how the fkb skill and its rule reach this machine.
Author Felix Schindler
Licence MIT
Language Python 3.11+, published to PyPI and run without installing through uv
Version 0.12.1, alpha: the shape holds, the edges move
Platforms Linux and Windows, both running the full suite in CI
Source github.com/ftschindler/federated-agent-kits

What it does

A source is any git repository that keeps skills or rules in it. It needs no manifest, no registration and no permission, and it never learns that anyone subscribed. akit looks in the places each ecosystem keeps these things, so a repository laid out normally needs nothing doing to it.

A kit is a name, and it may carry several kinds under it. Subscribing to fkb takes both the skill an agent opens and the rule that makes it reach for the skill at all, which is the pairing that gets broken when the two are installed separately.

A render writes into the region it owns, between markers, in whichever shape each detected harness wants: a skill directory for one, a block in an instructions file for another. What the reader wrote themselves sits outside those markers and is left alone. akit list says what is subscribed, which harnesses are on the machine, where each part landed, and whether two kits collide on a name. It writes nothing.

Two manifests, so the same mechanism serves both audiences: --global for the subscriptions that apply to every session, and a per-repository one for what only that project needs.

Why it exists

The argument is Subscribe to shared instruction text rather than pasting a copy. A block pasted by hand is one no later version can reach: the wording in the repository moves on, the copy does not, and nothing reads both halves to notice.

fkb is the case that produced it. Its rule used to ship as a page saying "paste this into your instructions file", which made every installed copy a fork. The rule now lives at rules/fkb.md in that project and akit carries it, under the same name as the skill, so an upgrade brings both.

What it does not do

It installs nothing beyond what it writes, and it resolves no dependencies between kits: a skill that needs another cannot say so anywhere a machine will check. Agent definitions, the third kind, are still being built, and a subscription to one says which task it is waiting for.

The following pages link to this page:

  1. ftschindler/federated-agent-kits: README, by felix_schindler, last modified 2026-10-14 ↩