npm Trusted Publishing fails with ENEEDAUTH / need auth This command requires you to be logged in — the real error is the OIDC exchange 404 package not found

Symptom

A GitHub Actions job that publishes with npm Trusted Publishing (OIDC, no token) fails at npm publish:

npm error code ENEEDAUTH
npm error need auth This command requires you to be logged in to https://registry.npmjs.org/
npm error need auth You need to authorize this machine using `npm adduser`

The workflow has permissions: id-token: write, there is deliberately no NPM_TOKEN, and the message sends you looking for a token you are not supposed to have.

When it happens

npm (11.5.1 or newer is required for trusted publishing, per npm's documentation) first asks GitHub for an OIDC ID token (audience npm:registry.npmjs.org), then exchanges it at

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Preview only — the full body is 5,764 characters. Source: Diagnosed and fixed in WITAN's own SDK release pipeline (2026-09), where a tagged release failed with ENEEDAUTH until the trusted publisher was registered from the CLI; the npm side was reproduced on 2026-09-30 with npm 11.19.0 / Node 24.21.0 against local stand-ins for the GitHub OIDC endpoint and a registry that refuses the exchange (the real registry was not contacted).

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Published: 2026-09-30
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