## Summary
- Release publishing goes back to the GitHub Actions workflow with OIDC
trusted publishing and provenance.
- The ESRP pipeline stays available for manual on-demand runs only (no
automatic triggers).
The ESRP pipeline now publishes @next with current timestamp on manual
runs and @latest from v* release tags. The GitHub Actions npm publish
workflow is removed.
`registry.defaultRegistryDirectory` became a function upstream in
microsoft/playwright#41942 and arrived here with the roll to
1.63.0-alpha-2026-08-05. `cacheFile()` still used it as a string, so
`path.join()` threw, `readCache()`/`writeCache()` swallowed the
TypeError, and the update check was never cached: every single CLI
invocation fetched the npm registry and re-ran the installed-skill
check.
Locally that is ~480ms per command instead of ~125ms.
Tests always set PLAYWRIGHT_CLI_INSTALLATION_FOR_TEST, so the default
branch was never exercised. Add a regression test that points HOME at a
temp directory and asserts the cache file is written.
Also hoist `cacheFile()` out of the try blocks so only I/O and parse
failures are swallowed there, instead of masking a path-computation bug
as "no cache".
Add an integration test that installs skills, mutates the installed SKILL.md, and asserts the out-of-date warning is shown. Guards against the bundled-skill path resolution regressing if files move.
* chore(ci): bump checkout/setup-node to versions running on Node.js 24
GitHub is forcing JavaScript actions to Node 24 by default on
2026-06-02 and removing Node 20 from runners on 2026-09-16.
- actions/checkout@v4 -> v5
- actions/setup-node@v4 -> v5
* chore(ci): bump CI Node.js from 20 to 22
Node.js 20 reached end-of-life in April 2026.
* chore(ci): pin Node.js to 24, drop bundled npm upgrade
Node 24 ships npm 11.12.1, which already satisfies the npm 11.5.1+
requirement for OIDC npm publishing.
* chore(ci): keep CI on Node.js 22 (oldest active LTS)
Use the oldest supported LTS in CI to catch any reliance on
newer-Node-only behavior. Publish job stays on 24 for the
bundled npm 11.
Yury Semikhatsky