npm-guide

npm-guide is a skill for Claude Code from xonovex/platform. It costs 89 tokens per session (699 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to publishing npm packages, which are reusable JavaScript or TypeScript packages shared through the npm registry. It checks package metadata and covers publishing options such as access, provenance, versions, and platform restrictions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check package.json files and publish npm packages with the right version, access, dist-tag, provenance, and platform settings.
Why use it?
It helps catch packages that cannot or should not be published and avoids publishing the same version twice. It also explains conditions that affect access, build provenance, and installation platforms.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the xonovex-typescript plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to check package.json files and publish npm packages with the right version, access, dist-tag, provenance, and platform settings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xonovex/platform/npm-guide
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 xonovex/platform --skill npm-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xonovex/platform

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install xonovex-typescript, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 699 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 $0.00089 $0.00699
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00280
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00070

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2ff2d478fe4d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

npm-guide 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 1mo 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.

packages/runtime/plugin/plugin-typescript/skills/npm-guide/SKILL.md · 35 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 35 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

npm Publishing Guidelines

Validate publish-readiness and publish packages idempotently, with correct access, provenance, dist-tags, and platform fields.

Core Principles

  • npm requires only name + version: license / repository / files are house policy, not npm rules, and private: true blocks publishing outright, see references/publish-check.md
  • Provenance needs CI + OIDC: --provenance only works from a supported runner with id-token permission, the public registry, and a matching repository; it errors elsewhere, see references/publish.md
  • Access is derived: unscoped packages are always public; scoped packages default to restricted and need --access public on first publish, see references/publish.md
  • Platform packages gate install: os / cpu / libc restrict where a native-binary package installs; inject and restore those fields safely, see references/publish.md

Operations

  • publish-check: validate a package.json is publish-ready, separating npm rules from policy, see references/publish-check.md
  • publish: publish a package idempotently with provenance / access / dist-tag / platform handling, see references/publish.md

Gotchas

  • Hard-requiring license / repository / files exceeds npm (it warns, it doesn't block), and rejecting a repository shorthand string like github:org/repo is wrong: treat the three as policy
  • publishConfig.access is only meaningful for @scoped names; unscoped packages cannot be restricted: don't hard-require it universally
  • --provenance fails outside a supported CI/OIDC environment: gate it on CI, never expect a local no-op
  • files supports globs and dist/ is built later: don't existence-check glob entries or build outputs; package.json / README / LICENSE / main are always included
  • Inject-then-restore of os / cpu / libc must restore on failure (try/finally), and libc is a silent no-op unless os includes linux
  • A pre-release published without --tag lands on latest and installs by default: derive a dist-tag from the version

Read the full file on GitHub · 35 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 35 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 2ff2d478fe4d

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npm-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository xonovex/platform (6 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 699 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-08.

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