# sx by Sleuth

7 Hacker News commenters recommended sx by Sleuth and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free open-source package manager for sharing AI skills, MCPs and commands across teams, with versioning, lockfiles and scoped installs.

## Why people recommend it

- Shares AI skills across teams (4 comments): "If you want to share skills using something that has versioning, automatic updates, and focused on teams vs the internet at large, consider sx" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780849)) "We then hit the problem of how to best share these and keep them up to date, especially with multiple repositories. It led us to build sx" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46319918)) "sx tries to make it easier to share, not just on one project/repo but across teams" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901787))
- Versioning and reproducible lockfile installs (2 comments): "If you want to share skills using something that has versioning, automatic updates, and focused on teams vs the internet at large, consider sx" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780849)) "There's a lockfile so installs are reproducible, scope levels for org / team / repo / individual" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151086))
- Scoped sharing through git and GitHub (2 comments): "There's a lockfile so installs are reproducible, scope levels for org / team / repo / individual" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48151086)) "it will put them into the git vault which you can easily share via Github access control" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48171650))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Nix](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nix.md): 378 recommend
- [Homebrew](https://hackerapproved.com/p/homebrew.md): 271 recommend
- [npm](https://hackerapproved.com/p/npm.md): 161 recommend
- [pnpm](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pnpm.md): 124 recommend
- [Cargo](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cargo.md): 123 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "sx by Sleuth", https://hackerapproved.com/p/sx/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).