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What and why

Problem

Package E2E (Verdaccio) now fails on every PR: each npm publish to the local registry gets npm error code E401 … your authentication token seems to be invalid. Nothing is published, so the first scenario, npx frontmcp create … --yes, exits 1. See #958's run (28 × E401).

Cause

The job installs Verdaccio unpinned (npm install -g verdaccio), and Verdaccio 7.0.0 was published on 2026-10-25 (7.0.1 the same day). libs/cli/e2e/run-e2e.sh publishes with a placeholder token, //localhost:14873/:_authToken=fake-token-for-e2e, which verdaccio.config.yaml's publish: $anonymous let through on 6.x. Verdaccio 7 answers 401 to it.

The last passing runs installed 6.10.6 with no E401 (e.g. #953's). A local reproduction with the repo's verdaccio.config.yaml and the same token:

Verdaccio	npm publish --registry … --tag next
6.11.1	published
7.0.1	E401

Fix

Install verdaccio@6 in the workflow and in run-e2e.sh's fallback install, with a one-line reason in the workflow.

Deliberately unchanged

• pr-testing-registry.yml also installs Verdaccio unpinned, but it publishes as a real htpasswd user (ci-publisher), not a placeholder token, so it isn't affected the same way.
• Moving the package e2e to Verdaccio 7 means publishing as a real user, as pr-testing-registry.yml does. That's a separate change.

Once this is merged, re-running #958's Package E2E job should pass.

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Performance Test Results

Status: ✅ All tests passed

Summary

Project	Tests	Passed	Warnings	Failed	Leaks
✅ demo-e2e-agents	4	4	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-cache	11	11	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-codecall	4	4	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-config	4	4	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-direct	3	3	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-elicitation	1	1	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-errors	4	4	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-hooks	3	3	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-multiapp	4	4	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-notifications	3	3	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-openapi	2	2	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-providers	4	4	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-public	4	4	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-redis	15	15	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-remember	4	4	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-remote	5	5	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-serverless	2	2	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-skills	15	15	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-standalone	2	2	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-transport-recreation	3	3	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-ui	4	4	0	0	0

Total: 101 tests across 21 projects

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