Publish Placeholder Package

Overview

Use this skill to publish a minimal placeholder package to npm at 0.0.0. This is used to reserve the package name and unblock npm-side OIDC configuration for CI publishing.

Workflow

1. Confirm publish target.

• Collect:
  • npm package name (for example, @remix-run/my-package)
  • package directory in repo (for example, packages/my-package)
• Validate the package does not already exist at 0.0.0:

npm view <package-name>@0.0.0 version

• If it already exists, stop and report that no placeholder publish is needed.

2. Build a temporary placeholder package outside the repo.

• Always publish from a temp directory to avoid shipping real package files by mistake.
• Create the temp directory and write a minimal package.json:

tmp_dir="$(mktemp -d)"
cd "$tmp_dir"

cat > package.json <<'JSON'
{
  "name": "<package-name>",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "description": "Placeholder package for Remix CI/OIDC setup",
  "license": "MIT",
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": "git+https://github.com/remix-run/remix.git",
    "directory": "<repo-package-dir>"
  },
  "publishConfig": {
    "access": "public"
  }
}
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