GitHub's package firewall went into preview: npm gets checked before your agent installs it
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On October 20 GitHub put a package firewall into public preview. It sits between "endpoints like Actions runners or coding agents" and the upstream package registry, and it inspects both the metadata requests and the package downloads that flow through it ( changelog ). The framing is right: the th…
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- 2026-10-21 14:15 · DEV Community — AI
GitHub's package firewall went into preview: npm gets checked before your agent installs it