Packs

A pack sets up a ready-made assistant for one kind of work — say, running a small business: its profile, a team, skills and routines, already written. Packs are signed by their publisher, and Aivyx PA checks the signature before it installs anything.

Where to get them

The Aivyx Hub is the official place for Aivyx packs. Each pack there says what it needs (the Aivyx PA version, and any accounts or tools) and gives the command to install it. You can also install a pack file someone gives you, as long as you trust its publisher.

Look before you install

aivyx-pa pack inspect business-manager-0.1.0.aivyxpack

inspect checks the signature and shows what the pack contains: its routines, the autonomy it asks for, the accounts it expects, and whether it passes its own checks. Nothing is installed.

Install

aivyx-pa pack install business-manager-0.1.0.aivyxpack

Installing a pack creates a new assistant next to your existing one (a named instance, called after the pack); your current assistant isn’t changed. Name it yourself with aivyx-pa --instance shop pack install ….

You then go through the usual setup with the pack’s answers pre-filled, and it ends by listing what to connect — for example aivyx-pa --instance business-manager connect gmail. Use the new assistant by adding --instance <name> to any command, or open its Studio with aivyx-pa --instance <name> studio.

What a pack can’t change

A pack can’t set autonomy above supervised, and it can’t decide how far the assistant reaches on your machine, whether its Studio is exposed, which programs it runs or where its requests go. Those stay your choices; change them afterwards like any other setting.

Tools a pack uses

Some packs use Aivyx’s tool programs — Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, the Toolkit. The desktop app’s .deb and the Docker image include them. After the one-line install, add them with:

aivyx-pa tool-programs install

It downloads the ones for your version, checks them and puts them beside aivyx-pa; aivyx-pa tool-programs list shows what’s there. aivyx-pa connect gmail offers to do this when the program is missing.

Trusting a publisher

Aivyx PA installs only packs signed by a publisher you trust. Until Aivyx PA 1.0 builds the Aivyx keys in, add them yourself: copy the keys from the Hub’s publisher-key.txt into your default assistant’s aivyx-pa.toml (~/.config/aivyx-pa/aivyx-pa.toml; a pack’s new assistant uses this list too),

[pack]
trusted_publishers = ["<base64 key>"]

and aivyx-pa pack inspect will accept packs signed with them. --allow-untrusted lets inspect show an untrusted pack anyway; install never takes one.