NPM introduces allowScripts opt-in install-script policy
NPM has introduced a new opt-in policy for install scripts called `allowScripts`. This policy aims to enhance security by requiring users to explicitly allow the execution of install scripts. The first phase of this policy has been successfully merged into the NPM CLI repository.
- ▪The `allowScripts` opt-in install-script policy is designed to improve security for NPM users.
- ▪Users will need to explicitly allow the execution of install scripts to prevent unauthorized actions.
- ▪The first phase of this policy has been merged into the NPM CLI repository.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/9360 |
| Publication time | Fri, 29 May 2026 10:41:03 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-29T10:50:00.361Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-29T10:50:00.361Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | UlP44EDuq-ZQ |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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