/setup-pm

description: Configure your preferred package manager (npm/pnpm/yarn/bun)
disable-model-invocation: true

Package Manager Setup

Configure your preferred package manager for this project or globally.

Usage

# Detect current package manager
node scripts/setup-package-manager.js --detect

# Set global preference
node scripts/setup-package-manager.js --global pnpm

# Set project preference
node scripts/setup-package-manager.js --project bun

# List available package managers
node scripts/setup-package-manager.js --list

Detection Priority

When determining which package manager to use, the following order is checked:

1. **Environment variable**: `CLAUDE_PACKAGE_MANAGER` 2. **Project config**: `.claude/package-manager.json` 3. **package.json**: `packageManager` field 4. **Lock file**: Presence of package-lock.json, yarn.lock, pnpm-lock.yaml, or bun.lockb 5. **Global config**: `~/.claude/package-manager.json` 6. **Fallback**: First available package manager (pnpm > bun > yarn > npm)

Configuration Files

Global Configuration

// ~/.claude/package-manager.json
{
  "packageManager": "pnpm"
}

Project Configuration

// .claude/package-manager.json
{
  "packageManager": "bun"
}

package.json

{
  "packageManager": "pnpm@8.6.0"
}

Environment Variable

Set `CLAUDE_PACKAGE_MANAGER` to override all other detection methods:

# Windows (PowerShell)
$env:CLAUDE_PACKAGE_MANAGER = "pnpm"

# macOS/Linux
export CLAUDE_PACKAGE_MANAGER=pnpm

Run the Detection

To see current package manager detection results, run:

node scripts/setup-package-manager.js --detect