npm

npm is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from G1Joshi/Agent-Skills. It costs 16 tokens per session (312 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to npm, Node.js's standard package manager for installing JavaScript libraries and managing project scripts and dependencies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create projects, install packages, run tests, publish JavaScript packages, and manage workspaces in a monorepo, a repository containing several related packages.
Why use it?
It records exact dependency versions so installations and builds are more consistent across computers and CI systems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create projects, install packages, run tests, publish JavaScript packages, and manage workspaces in a monorepo, a repository containing several related packages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/g1joshi/agent-skills/npm
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add G1Joshi/Agent-Skills --skill npm
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/G1Joshi/Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 312 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00016 $0.00312
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00156
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00062
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00031

Measured 5d ago against content hash f4e31c440b00, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

npm scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/devops/npm/SKILL.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

npm

npm is the default package manager for Node.js. v11 (2025) introduces strict publishing rules and npx caching improvements.

When to Use

  • Default: It comes with Node. Zero friction.
  • Compatibility: The standard package-lock.json is supported everywhere.
  • Publishing: npm publish is the canonical way to share JS code.

Quick Start

npm init -y
npm install lodash
npm install --save-dev jest

# Monorepo
npm init -w packages/my-lib

Core Concepts

package.json

Manifest file. Scripts, dependencies, metadata.

package-lock.json

Locks dependency tree for reproducible builds. Commit this.

Workspaces

Native monorepo support. npm install installs dependencies for root and all nested packages.

Best Practices (2025)

Do:

  • Use npm ci: For CI/CD pipelines. Faster and strict (fails if lockfile doesn't match).
  • Audit: npm audit to find vulnerabilities.
  • Use Scopes: @my-org/my-pkg to avoid name collisions.

Don't:

  • Don't mix managers: Don't use yarn in a repo with package-lock.json.

References

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 57 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A f4e31c440b00

Subscribe to this mod's changes

npm is a skill published in the GitHub repository G1Joshi/Agent-Skills (12 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 312 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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