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Covers npm Staged Publishing (using `npm stage publish` with manual 2FA approval), Trusted Publishing without tokens, pinning GitHub Actions to SHA commit hashes, CI workflow linting with zizmor, restricting tag creation to admins, setting dependency cooldowns (3-day recommended), disabling postinstall scripts via npm 12/pnpm 10/yarn 4.14, minimizing dependencies in the publish job, avoiding caches in critical steps, and using Dev Containers for local isolation. Real-world attack vectors are explained (compromised dependencies, hacked CI actions, fake job interviews) with references to TanStack, Axios, and ESLint incidents. A complete publish.yaml workflow is provided. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [No more tokens\! 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