exclude_commands for specific command

[kosinal]

I have a command running using NPX. When I run it via RTK prefix, I get:

⏺ Bash(npx -y <some_package>)
  ⎿  Error: Exit code 1
     Unknown command: "<some_package>"
     To see a list of supported npm commands, run:

It seems that RTK prepends something, because the command without RTK runs OK.

I had to add into config:

[hooks]
exclude_commands = ["npx"]

which excludes whole npx.

Is there a way, how to exclude only the specific one command with package, not whole npx. I tried to copied whole command, but did not work.

[Ruchika-dev07]

The README shows the exact config for this: in ~/.config/rtk/config.toml, under [hooks], you set exclude_commands = ["curl", "playwright"] to skip rewriting for specific commands.

[kosinal]

This is the workaround I had to as stated here.
But it is not what I need because this way, I am bypassing whole npx, which is intended.
The desired function would to be to be able to ignore npx -y some sommand which seems is not possible.

[Ruchika-dev07]

Following up — you're right that exclude_commands only matches on the binary name (npx), not the arguments after it, so there's no way to exclude just one subcommand via that config key as it stands today.
A workaround that might get you unblocked: wrap the specific npx -y <package> call in a small shell script or shell alias with its own name (e.g. run-mypackage.sh), and call that instead of invoking npx directly. Since RTK's exclude_commands matches on binary name, this lets you keep npx fully covered by RTK while carving out just that one call.
If you need npx itself to stay hooked for other packages, this should let you get selective exclusion without giving up RTK's rewriting for the rest of your npx usage.
That said, if there's a way to match on argument patterns rather than just binary name, that'd be a much cleaner fix — @maintainers, is subcommand/pattern-level exclusion (e.g. exclude_commands = ["npx some_package"]) on the roadmap, or is a wrapper script the intended workaround for this today?