Fix npm trusted publishing: remove registry-url from setup-node to enable OIDC exchange

[Copilot]

setup-node with registry-url: "https://registry.npmjs.org" writes //registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${NODE_AUTH_TOKEN} to .npmrc. When NODE_AUTH_TOKEN is not set, npm sees an empty _authToken entry and sends the publish request unauthenticated — instead of performing the OIDC exchange with npmjs.com that trusted publishers rely on. This is why the registry returned 404 even though provenance signing via sigstore succeeded (that flow uses the OIDC JWT directly and is unaffected by .npmrc).

Fixed

• publish.yml: removed registry-url: "https://registry.npmjs.org" from setup-node — without it, setup-node no longer creates the .npmrc entry that overrides the trusted publisher OIDC exchange; npm defaults to https://registry.npmjs.org/ anyway so package resolution is unchanged; --provenance and id-token: write continue to provide sigstore attestation

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[einari]

@copilot This doesn't sound right. Why would I still need a token for doing this - then I might as well just have a token instead of trusted publishing. Read up on how this works: https://docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publishers

[Copilot]

@copilot This doesn't sound right. Why would I still need a token for doing this - then I might as well just have a token instead of trusted publishing. Read up on how this works: ht...

You're right. Reverted in dda0104.

For npm trusted publishing, npm CLI automatically exchanges the GitHub OIDC token with npmjs.com for a short-lived publish token — no NODE_AUTH_TOKEN needed. The workflow already has everything required: id-token: write and setup-node with registry-url.

The 404 failure happens because npm's OIDC exchange with npmjs.com requires the package to be configured as a trusted publisher on npmjs.com (under the package's "Publishing Access" settings). If that configuration is missing or there's a mismatch (wrong repository name, workflow filename, etc.), the exchange fails and npm falls back to unauthenticated access, which npmjs.com rejects with 404.

Please verify that @cratis/components has a trusted publisher configured on npmjs.com pointing to the Cratis/Components repository and the publish.yml workflow.

[einari]

asd

[einari]

@copilot This is the setting in NPM that we've had since we started this conversation - shouldn't this just work?

[Copilot]

@copilot This is the setting in NPM that we've had since we started this conversation - shouldn't this just work?

<img width="800" height="836" alt="image" src="https://github.co...

Yes, the trusted publisher config is correct — that's not the issue. The problem is setup-node with registry-url: "https://registry.npmjs.org". When that's set, the action writes //registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${NODE_AUTH_TOKEN} to .npmrc. Since NODE_AUTH_TOKEN is not set, npm sees an empty _authToken entry and sends the publish request with no auth rather than performing the OIDC exchange with npmjs.com.

Removing registry-url from setup-node fixes this (a6ac27a). npm defaults to https://registry.npmjs.org/ anyway, so nothing else changes — it will now have no _authToken configured for the registry and will fall through to the trusted publisher OIDC exchange.

asd

Yes, and it should work — but setup-node with registry-url: "https://registry.npmjs.org" was interfering. That action writes //registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${NODE_AUTH_TOKEN} to .npmrc. With NODE_AUTH_TOKEN unset, npm sees an empty _authToken and sends the publish request unauthenticated instead of doing the OIDC exchange with npmjs.com.

Removed registry-url from setup-node in a6ac27a — npm defaults to the public registry anyway, so this just removes the conflicting .npmrc entry and lets trusted publishing work as configured.