NP-TEAM
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Updated: October 2025
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NAME
np-team- Manage organization teams and team memberships
Synopsis
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npm team create <scope:team> [lB-otp <otpcode>[rB]
npm team destroy <scope:team> [lB-otp <otpcode>[rB]
npm team add <scope:team> <user> [lB-otp <otpcode>[rB]
npm team rm <scope:team> <user> [lB-otp <otpcode>[rB]
npm team ls <scope>|<scope:team>
Note: This command is unaware of workspaces.
Description
Used to manage teams in organizations, and change team memberships. Does not handle permissions for packages.
Teams must always be fully qualified with the organization/scope they belong to when operating on them, separated by a colon (
:). That is, if you have a
newteam team in an
org organization, you must always refer to that team as
@org:newteam in these commands.
If you have tw-factor authentication enabled in
aut-an-writes mode, then you can provide a code from your authenticator with
[lB-otp <otpcode>[rB]. If you don't include this then you will be taken through a second factor flow based on your
authtype.
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create / destroy: Create a new team, or destroy an existing one. Note: You cannot remove the developers team, learn more. lahttps://docs.npmjs.com/abou-developer-teamra
Here's how to create a new team newteam under the org org:
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npm team create @org:newteam
You should see a confirming message such as: +@org:newteam once the new team has been created.
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add: Add a user to an existing team.
Adding a new user username to a team named newteam under the org org:
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npm team add @org:newteam username
On success, you should see a message: username added to @org:newteam
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rm: Using npm team rm you can also remove users from a team they belong to.
Here's an example removing user username from newteam team in org organization:
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npm team rm @org:newteam username
Once the user is removed a confirmation message is displayed: username removed from @org:newteam
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ls: If performed on an organization name, will return a list of existing teams under that organization. If performed on a team, it will instead return a list of all users belonging to that particular team.
Here's an example of how to list all teams from an org named org:
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npm team ls @org
Example listing all members of a team named newteam:
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npm team ls @org:newteam
Details
npm team always operates directly on the current registry, configurable from the command line using
-registry=<registry url>.
You must be a
team admin to create teams and manage team membership, under the given organization. Listing teams and team memberships may be done by any member of the organization.
Organization creation and management of team admins and
organization members is done through the website, not the npm CLI.
To use teams to manage permissions on packages belonging to your organization, use the
npm access command to grant or revoke the appropriate permissions.
Configuration
registry
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Default: "https://registry.npmjs.org/"
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Type: URL
The base URL of the npm registry.
otp
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Default: null
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Type: null or String
This is a on-time password from a tw-factor authenticator. It's needed when publishing or changing package permissions with npm
access.
If not set, and a registry response fails with a challenge for a on-time password, npm will prompt on the command line for one.
parseable
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Default: false
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Type: Boolean
Output parseable results from commands that write to standard output. For npm search, this will be ta-separated table format.
json
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Default: false
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Type: Boolean
Whether or not to output JSON data, rather than the normal output.
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In npm pkg set it enables parsing set values with JSON.parse() before saving them to your package.json.
Not supported by all npm commands.
See Also
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npm help access
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npm help config
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npm help registry
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