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name: npm

description: "npm registry ops: login, whoami, names, publish; 1Password tmux."

metadata: {"clawdbot":{"emoji":"📦","requires":{"bins":["npm","node","tmux","op","jq"]}}}

---

# npm

Use for npm registry/account tasks: `npm whoami`, package availability, package reservation, publish, org checks, and auth debugging.

## Auth

- Use `one-password` first for secret rules.

- Never run `op` directly in the shell tool.

- Primary item: `npm Registry - steipete - Release Automation` in `Molty`.

- Default to `OP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN`; no desktop unlock. The item carries the working registry session (`registry_token`) plus username/password/TOTP fallback.

- Desktop `npmjs` fallback is explicit only: pass `--account my.1password.com` when Molty is unavailable and the user wants the fallback. Explicit `release`/`publish` requests are consent for its unlock prompt.

- Stop and ask if the item is missing, the account/vault is ambiguous, credentials are malformed, npm denies package access, or the requested package/version does not match the repo release target.

- Run npm auth work inside one persistent tmux session. Reuse it on failure.

- Keep npm auth in a temp npmrc; delete it after the command.

- All helpers share `scripts/npm-auth.sh`: stored `registry_token` session first, then `scripts/npm-auth-login.mjs` registry login with a fresh six-digit OTP. Do not hand-roll field extraction or registry login.

- Credential selection prefers canonical field `id`, then `purpose`, then a unique label; duplicate label-only matches are rejected (legacy `npmjs` may retain same-label fields).

- npm 11 prompt piping is brittle; avoid `printf ... | npm login --auth-type=legacy`.

- Avoid `expect` for npm login unless necessary; logs can echo prompts and are easy to get wrong.

- Prefer the helper's registry API login path (`npm-profile` `loginCouch`) for automation.

- If auth shape is ambiguous or `npm whoami` fails, stop and ask for the exact field label / credential fix. Do not probe more 1Password items or start another tmux session.

## Package Publishing

From the package root, inside the same auth tmux session:

```bash

/Users/steipete/Projects/agent-scripts/skills/npm/scripts/publish-package.sh

```

The helper verifies identity, refuses an existing package version, publishes with a fresh OTP, retries one expired OTP, verifies registry visibility, and cleans auth files.

## Package Reservation

Use `scripts/reserve-packages.sh` from inside the same tmux session:

```bash

/Users/steipete/Projects/agent-scripts/skills/npm/scripts/reserve-packages.sh package-one package-two

```

What it does:

- reads the Molty release-automation item once via `op`

- reuses the stored registry session or creates one from username/password/TOTP

- publishes `0.0.0` placeholder packages with a generic README

- continues after per-package publish failures

- redacts tokens/OTP in logs

- cleans temp npmrc/work dirs

Notes:

- npm may reject names as too similar to already-published names. Treat that as a registry policy result, not an auth failure.

- npm CLI prompt piping is brittle on npm 11. Prefer the helper’s registry API login path over scripted `npm login`.

- For scoped packages, `npm view` can lag/404 even when the package exists. Check `npm access get status <pkg>`; `public` or a publish failure saying `previously published versions` means the name is reserved.