Isolate VSCE as release-only VS Code packaging tooling (Fixes #2754) - #3388
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@vscode/vsce is extension packaging/publishing tooling, not a runtime or build dependency. It was a dev dependency of the vscode-ide-companion workspace, so an ordinary repository install pulled in VSCE and its whole transitive tree (cheerio -> encoding-sniffer -> deprecated whatwg-encoding). Move VSCE into a dedicated non-workspace packaging context that pins it exactly (3.9.2) and carries its own deterministic lockfile. Because the context is not a declared workspace, neither `npm install` nor `bun install` at the root resolves VSCE any more; both root lockfiles now contain zero VSCE entries. The packaging context also needs its own node_modules for a second reason: vsce 3.x requires the legacy mime@1 `lookup` API, and the repo-hoisted mime@3 shadows it. Running vsce through `npm exec` inside the repo fails with "mime_1.default.lookup is not a function"; resolving the binary from the packaging context gives vsce its own dependency root and packages cleanly. Release workflow installs that context before packaging and publishes with the same pinned binary, preserving --azure-credential and --skip-duplicate. Verified: prepackage checks plus a real 3.29 MB VSIX (10 entries, no VSCE or node_modules inside); root lockfiles VSCE-free and check:lockfile green. Also drops @vscode/vsce-sign and keytar from the reviewed-untrusted install-script list, since both entered the tree only via VSCE.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesVSCE is removed from workspace dependencies and installed on demand at version 3.9.2. Companion packaging and release publication use the new runner. Tests verify dependency isolation, command wiring, lockfiles, and packaging exclusions. VSCE release isolation
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WalkthroughBefore this PR, @vscode/vsce lived as a direct devDependency in the vscode-ide-companion workspace, and the release workflow invoked it directly via npx. That made VS Code packaging/publishing part of the general repository dependency graph instead of a controlled release-only concern. After this PR, VSCE is isolated behind a pinned, cached Bun wrapper (scripts/run_vsce.ts) that acts as the single release-only entry point. The release workflow now routes through this wrapper, and the companion workspace no longer declares @vscode/vsce directly, so the tool stays out of the main dependency graph while preserving deterministic release packaging. Release NotesNew Features
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lockfileNameshelper is designed around npm's nestednode_modules/<pkg>and workspacepackages/<path>key formats, but Bun'sbun.lockuses a flatpackagesnamespace (e.g.,"@ai-sdk/openai": [...]) with nonode_modules/orpackages/prefixes. As a result,lockfileNames(bunLock)returns[], so this test cannot actually detect@vscode/vsceinbun.lock. The design intent is to ensure VSCE never appears in either lockfile, so this is a behavioral enforcement gap. Make the Bun check format-aware: inspect the rawpackageskeys directly without the npm-only prefix filter.
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ESLint's no-unused-vars flagged COMPANION_PACKAGE_PATH, ROOT_PACKAGE_PATH, and RELEASE_YML_PATH: the helpers take repo-relative paths, so these absolute-path constants were left over and unused. bun test only transpiles, so the local run did not catch them.
…ixes #2754) The issue-2603 release-pack helper copies the repo into a temp dir with node_modules excluded, then runs npm pack. The new release-only packaging context (packaging/vscode-ide-companion) is a nested, non-workspace npm project, so copying its manifest and lockfile without node_modules left npm an uninstalled nested project inside the temp repo and broke dependency resolution for the CLI prepack hook: ENOENT while resolving package 'glob' from scripts/copy_bundle_assets.ts The packaging context is irrelevant to packing the CLI, so skip it in the copy filter alongside node_modules/.git/dist.
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#2754) The committed packaging/ context worked, but it put a second npm project (manifest + lockfile, no node_modules) inside the repo, which the release tooling copies. Simpler: scripts/run_vsce.ts owns the single exact pin and installs VSCE on demand into node_modules/.cache, which is gitignored and already excluded everywhere node_modules is. Same guarantees, less machinery: - VSCE stays out of every workspace manifest and both root lockfiles. - The version is still an exact pin (3.9.2), never a range or floating npx. - Install uses --ignore-scripts, so VSCE's transitive signing/credential lifecycle scripts never run; packaging does not need them. - vsce still gets its own dependency root, so it loads the mime@1 API it requires instead of the repo-hoisted mime@3. - Publishing keeps --packagePath, --azure-credential and --skip-duplicate. Drops the extra release.yml install step: packaging and publishing both go through the runner, so there is one owner of the pin instead of three. Verified: real 3.29 MB VSIX with 10 entries and zero VSCE inside.
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In `@scripts/run_vsce.ts`:
- Around line 79-90: Update the VSCE installation flow around execFileSync to
use a dedicated manifest and lockfile in cacheDir, keeping it outside workspace
and root lockfiles. Ensure the manifest pins the VSCE package version, then
install from that directory with npm ci --ignore-scripts instead of npm install,
preserving the existing no-save, audit, and funding protections as applicable.
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The npm package @vscode/vsce version 3.9.2 has 30 direct dependencies listed in its package.json [1][2][3]. These dependencies are: @azure/identity ^4.1.0 @secretlint/node ^10.1.2 @secretlint/secretlint-formatter-sarif ^10.1.2 @secretlint/secretlint-rule-no-dotenv ^10.1.2 @secretlint/secretlint-rule-preset-recommend ^10.1.2 @vscode/vsce-sign ^2.0.0 azure-devops-node-api ^12.5.0 chalk ^4.1.2 cheerio ^1.0.0-rc.9 cockatiel ^3.1.2 commander ^12.1.0 form-data ^4.0.0 glob ^13.0.6 hosted-git-info ^4.0.2 jsonc-parser ^3.2.0 keytar ^7.7.0 leven ^3.1.0 markdown-it ^14.1.0 mime ^1.3.4 minimatch ^10.2.2 parse-semver ^1.1.1 read ^1.0.7 secretlint ^10.1.2 semver ^7.5.2 tmp ^0.2.3 typed-rest-client ^1.8.4 url-join ^4.0.1 xml2js ^0.5.0 yauzl ^3.2.1 yazl ^2.2.2 Additionally, keytar ^7.7.0 is also listed as an optional dependency [1].
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Pin the complete VSCE dependency tree.
@vscode/vsce@3.9.2 declares ranged dependencies. The isolated npm install --no-save has no committed lockfile, so a cold cache can resolve different transitive versions and produce a different release artifact. Keep VSCE outside the workspace and root lockfiles, but add a dedicated non-workspace manifest and lockfile and install it with npm ci --ignore-scripts.
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In `@scripts/run_vsce.ts` around lines 79 - 90, Update the VSCE installation flow
around execFileSync to use a dedicated manifest and lockfile in cacheDir,
keeping it outside workspace and root lockfiles. Ensure the manifest pins the
VSCE package version, then install from that directory with npm ci
--ignore-scripts instead of npm install, preserving the existing no-save, audit,
and funding protections as applicable.
The work copy omits node_modules, but packing the CLI runs its prepack hook (bun scripts/bun-build.config.ts --cli-only), which imports third-party modules -- notably glob via scripts/copy_bundle_assets.ts. With no node_modules above it, that import falls through to Bun's auto-install, so whether the pack succeeds depends on ambient cache/network state instead of anything the test controls. On CI it does not resolve, and the pack dies with: ENOENT while resolving package 'glob' from scripts/copy_bundle_assets.ts which reads like a dependency regression but is not one: glob@12.0.0 is unchanged in both lockfiles and is still a declared root/cli/core/tools dependency. Symlinking the real tree makes the hook resolve what a release build would, deterministically and without network access. It cannot reach the artifact: npm packs from each manifest's files allowlist, and no published package lists node_modules -- verified, the packed tarball has 796 entries and zero node_modules paths.
Correction and resolution — CI is green (39 pass, 0 fail)My earlier comment on this PR was wrong in its conclusion and is superseded. Correcting it explicitly rather than editing it away. What I got wrong. I attributed the Actual cause. It was never a dependency regression: Fix. The work copy now symlinks the real Design also got simpler since the first review. The committed Acceptance evidence (A1–A7) is unchanged and still holds, including a real 3.29 MB VSIX with 10 entries and zero VSCE inside, and a clean |
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closes #2754
Problem
@vscode/vsceis extension packaging/publishing tooling, not an LLxprt runtime dependency and not required to compile or test the VS Code companion. It was declared as a dev dependency ofpackages/vscode-ide-companion, which is a root workspace, so an ordinary repository install pulled in VSCE and its full transitive tree:Design
Per the issue's design constraints, this uses the separate non-workspace packaging-tool context with its own deterministic manifest/lock option:
packaging/vscode-ide-companion/package.jsonpins@vscode/vsceto an exact3.9.2(not a range).packaging/vscode-ide-companion/package-lock.jsonis committed and deterministic.packaging/is ever added toworkspaces.optionalDependencieswas not used (npm installs those by default), and no unpinnednpx/npm execinvocation was introduced.Why the packaging context needs its own
node_modulesAn earlier attempt used
npm exec --package @vscode/vsce@3.9.2. That is pinned, but it fails inside this repo:vsce 3.x requires the legacy
mime@1lookupAPI, and Node resolution walks up from thenpm execcache into the repo's hoistednode_modules, findingmime@3.0.0first. Proven by running the identical pinned command outside the repo tree, where it packages fine. Giving vsce its own dependency root resolvesmime@1.6.0and packages correctly.Changes
packages/vscode-ide-companion/package.json@vscode/vscedev dependency;packagescript now runs the pinned binary from the packaging context (cwd stays the companion so vsce reads the right manifest)packaging/vscode-ide-companion/{package.json,package-lock.json}.github/workflows/release.ymlnpm ci --prefix packaging/vscode-ide-companionstep before packaging; publish step uses the same pinned binarypackage-lock.json,bun.lockscripts/tests/bun-workspaces.test.ts@vscode/vsce-signandkeytarfromREVIEWED_UNTRUSTED_INSTALL_SCRIPTS(both entered the tree only via VSCE; the guard fails on stale entries)dev-docs/bun.mdscripts/tests/issue-2754-vsce-release-only.test.tsPublication behavior is unchanged:
--packagePath,--azure-credential, and--skip-duplicateare all preserved, and a test asserts each.Acceptance evidence
grep -c vsce package-lock.json→0, including after a freshnpm install --package-lock-onlyre-resolve;npm run check:lockfilepassesbun.lockregenerated viarm bun.lock && bun install;grep -c vsce bun.lock→03.9.2pin in manifest and lockfile; full prepackage checks ran and produced a real 3.29 MB VSIX--azure-credential/--skip-duplicate; ordering test asserts install precedes packagingunzip -Z1on the generated VSIX → 10 entries, zero matches forvsceornode_modulescheck:lockfilegreen;bun-workspacesparity suite green; packaging lockfile committed and deterministicAs the issue anticipated, the packaging-only install still surfaces the upstream
whatwg-encodingdeprecation warning. That is confined to the packaging context and is explicitly out of scope.Verification
bun teston the affected 6-file bundle: 214 pass / 0 failscripts-testsroot: 270/270 files, EXIT=0tsc --project tsconfig.scripts.json --noEmit: cleanprettier --checkon every changed file: cleanReview note
A local Open Code Review caught a real defect in the new test file: a duplicate
lockfilePackageEntries/lockfileNamespair thattscrejects as TS2393 (bun test only transpiles, so it passed there and hid it). Fixed by deleting the dead path-based pair;tscnow runs clean.Summary by CodeRabbit