- a collection of libraries that work well with Gambit
- some analog of ASDF that makes it easy to load all of these libraries, and easy for each library to declare its dependencies on others
- an easily-accessible repository for the libraries
- an efficient way to collect updates to the libraries and make them accessible from the repo
- a tool that enables you to quickly and easily search the libraries by name and description
- a tool that enables you to quickly and easily download and install any given library
- an easy way to tell the tools about nonstandard and local repositories
- an easy way to tell the tools that you want a specific version of a library, or multiple versions of a library