sx by Sleuth
Shares rank 28 of 35 package managers by recommenders
Free open-source package manager for sharing AI skills, MCPs and commands across teams, with versioning, lockfiles and scoped installs.
Free open-source package manager for sharing AI skills, MCPs and commands across teams, with versioning, lockfiles and scoped installs.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 78%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Shares AI skills across teams
“If you want to share skills using something that has versioning, automatic updates, and focused on teams vs the internet at large, consider sx”
Comment from 27 Jan 2026 in “Dockerhub for Skill.md” “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”
Comment from 18 Dec 2025 in “Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem” “sx tries to make it easier to share, not just on one project/repo but across teams”
Comment from 14 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: Sx 2.0 – Share AI skills with your team through a Dropbox folder” - Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard”
Versioning and reproducible lockfile installs
“If you want to share skills using something that has versioning, automatic updates, and focused on teams vs the internet at large, consider sx”
Comment from 27 Jan 2026 in “Dockerhub for Skill.md” “There's a lockfile so installs are reproducible, scope levels for org / team / repo / individual”
Comment from 15 May 2026 in “Show HN: Sx – an open-source package manager for AI skills, MCPs, and commands” Scoped sharing through git and GitHub
“There's a lockfile so installs are reproducible, scope levels for org / team / repo / individual”
Comment from 15 May 2026 in “Show HN: Sx – an open-source package manager for AI skills, MCPs, and commands” “it will put them into the git vault which you can easily share via Github access control”
Comment from 17 May 2026 in “Show HN: Sx – an open-source package manager for AI skills, MCPs, and commands”
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The four most recommended other package managers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
See all 35 package managers, rankedWhat people said
15 of the 17 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“overall I find it to be very useful”
“sx tries to make it easier to share, not just on one project/repo but across teams”
“It finds the dups and lets you use the llm to build the consolidated best version of the skill.”
“It's great to see someone putting UI and guardrails around this pattern!”
“The thing it buys you over vanilla git is that you don't have to sym-link dirs for different AI harnesses.”
“it will put them into the git vault which you can easily share via Github access control”
“Really clean approach to solving a fragmented workflow.”
“I therefore love the idea.”
“Anything beyond ralph loop/use tdd skills, feels hostile in your internal system.”
“not sure if this premise is valid”
“There's a lockfile so installs are reproducible, scope levels for org / team / repo / individual”
“sx blocks reads entirely.”
“If you want to share skills using something that has versioning, automatic updates, and focused on teams vs the internet at large, consider sx”
“If you want to share skills (and other tools) with teams at scale, consider sx”
“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”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.