test: replace verdaccio with an npm registry on Bun.serve

[robobun]

Problem

• The install tests fork verdaccio 6 and assert its answers where npm differs. /-/whoami with an unknown token: verdaccio 200 {}, npm 401 {}.
• All 31 files share one htpasswd and one storage directory, and publish tests write there. stop() calls kill(0), so each file leaves a verdaccio process.

Fix

• test/packages/registry is an npm registry on Bun.serve, without dependencies. It reads the fixture directory and keeps users, tokens and published packages in memory, per instance.
• The 31 files import TestRegistry from "registry". VerdaccioRegistry and the verdaccio dependencies are removed.
• The bytecode snapshot of libraries.js changes: aws4 came only with verdaccio.
• Verified: test/packages/registry/ (183 tests) and the 31 files (2499 pass, 1 fail). Verdaccio, same build: 2497 pass, 1 fail. Both failures are flaky on main.

Background

• test: replace verdaccio and the mock npm servers with an in-process spec-compliant registry #33115 has the same goal and conflicts with main. This PR follows the rulings of its review. A maintainer has to choose.
• Reads were compared with registry.npmjs.org on 63 GET and HEAD requests: 49 agree. Writes follow the npm docs and client.
• Considered a class in harness.ts: every test file loads it, and the import costs 1.1 s of CPU on a debug build.

Downsides

• whoami > invalid token asserts 401 Unauthorized. A new test keeps the 200 {} case.
• The registry runs on the test thread: a spawnSync of bun against it never returns. No migrated file does that.
• Not implemented: signatures, provenance, OIDC, orgs, teams.

Notes

What I ran

where	build	what	result
Linux x64	release build of 36cd151	the 31 migrated files, with the leftovers of verdaccio in the fixture directory	2499 pass, 1 fail
Linux x64	the same build, main with verdaccio	the same 31 files	2497 pass, 1 fail
Linux x64	release build of 367d939	test/packages/registry/	183 pass
Linux x64	release build of 36cd151	bun-publish.test.ts, without the leftovers	47 pass, 0 fail
Linux x64	local debug build with ASAN	test/packages/registry/, hoist, npmrc, config-precedence, bun-publish, bun-lockb	319 pass, 0 fail
Windows x64	canary a4f1429	test/packages/registry/	183 pass
Windows x64	canary 37da174	bun-publish, config-precedence, pnpm-lock-v9, bun-update-lockfile-sync	258 pass, 0 fail, 1 skip

• The one failure of this PR is npm manifest cache entries are only reused for the package name they were saved for. It is flaky on main too: see the flaky tests below.
• The one failure with verdaccio is manifest conditional requests > a changed etag returns 200 and the new etag is cached. It uses its own mock server.
• The runs on Linux are after a clean install of test/node_modules from the new lockfile.
• The run of the 31 files is on 3600bb6. The commits after it move the files of the package, merge main, and change packages.ts, registry.ts and cli.ts for the later reviews. The debug run is before the merge, when the package had 165 tests. The two runs of test/packages/registry/ are on the last commit. The run of the four files on Windows is three commits before it.
• After 79d9f7f, which is the last commit that changes src/, I ran bun-publish, npmrc, config-precedence, hoist and bun-lockb on the release build of 367d939 again: 154 pass, 0 fail. The two commits after it change cli.ts and its tests only.
• On Windows, a file that imports bun:internal-for-testing does not load: that canary build has no such module. Those files import it on main too. I did not run them there.
• I did not run anything on macOS. CI did: build https://buildkite.com/bun/bun/builds/121299 is for the last commit, 3b5d5ee, and 181 of 181 jobs passed.
• The release build has --lto=off. The debug build is of the same tree. Its --revision shows an older commit, because the build directory pins the label.
• The host had a load average of 400 to 900. With the default timeout of 5 s, a test of cli.test.ts that runs one bun process timed out in some runs. The runs above have the timeout of CI.

This PR and #33115

#33115 replaces verdaccio too. I did not find it before I opened this PR: my search for open pull requests stopped at 20 results. Both PRs change the same test files, so only one can land as it is. The author of #33115 compared them in #33115 (comment).

	#33115	this PR
Files	1083	59
State	conflicts with main, four review passes	applies to main
Fixtures	converted to source directories	as they are on main
The two mock registries (dummy.registry.ts, simple-dummy-registry.ts)	replaced	not touched

A maintainer has to choose. If this PR lands, #33115 can be closed, or reduced to the parts that only it has.

Rulings of the review of #33115 that this PR follows

• A publish is refused with 415 unless the Content-Type is application/json, character for character. bun-publish.test.ts asserts the header that bun sends. The two comments in src/runtime/cli/publish_command.rs stay as they are.
• An error that a handler throws fails the test: stop() throws it.
• The bulk advisory endpoint reads a gzip body, and a test sends one.
• createTestDir() does not remove users or tokens.
• hasInstallScript is true for a script that is not empty.
• time.modified moves on each write.
• A field of an advisory that is passed as undefined keeps its default. The test compares with literal values.
• Nothing here says that bun reads Cache-Control. The registry sends the header because npm does.

What only #33115 has

• The replacement of dummy.registry.ts and simple-dummy-registry.ts. 18 test files import them.
• registry.define(): a package that a test declares in code, with a tarball writer and its golden files.
• The conversion of the fixtures to source directories.
• registry-resolver-matrix.test.ts.

Each of these can go on top of this registry as a PR of its own. So can the three servers in bun-audit.test.ts, config-precedence.test.ts and bun-install-lifecycle-scripts.test.ts that forward to the registry to see or to change a request: intercept and recordRequests do that now.

How each behaviour was established

Compared with registry.npmjs.org, GET and HEAD only

I sent 63 requests to registry.npmjs.org and to this registry with copies of is-number and @types/is-number, and compared the status, nine headers and the body. 49 agree. The requests cover:

• The packument in both forms, HEAD, Range, ?write=true, and a scoped name as @s%2fn, @s/n and %40s%2fn.
• A version by number and by tag, and one that is not there: 404 with the JSON string "version not found: 9.9.9".
• A tarball: GET, HEAD, Range with 206 and 416, If-None-Match, and the 404 for the scope in the file name.
• dist-tags, collaborators, visibility, ping, whoami, the account endpoints, /-/v1/done.
• The same endpoints with a token that npm does not know.

Separate probes gave:

• The abbreviated version is an allow list without libc, description, scripts and time. hasInstallScript is there only when true. The census covered 5763 versions of 9 packages.
• Accept: the registry looks for the media type anywhere in the header, in exact case. It does not weigh q.
• The entity tag is the hex md5 of the body. It is weak on an encoded answer. If-Modified-Since has no effect.
• Encoding: brotli when accepted, else gzip. Bodies of 21 and 26 bytes came back as they are, a body of 63 bytes came back encoded. The registry here starts at 48 bytes.
• Last-Modified is modified rounded up to the second. I checked one packument.
• You must be logged in to publish packages. is the text of npm for a token that it does not know, on collaborators.

The 14 requests that differ

request	npm	this registry
a version, and search (4 requests)	the headers change between a first and a later request: public, last-modified and accept-ranges come and go	always cache-control: max-age=300
a packument or tarball that is not there (3)	cache-control: public, max-age=300 for an unscoped name, nothing for a scoped one	no cache-control
collaborators	names in another order	the order of maintainers
/-/npm/v1/keys	the keys of npm	{"keys":[]}, it does not sign
/-/nonexistent-endpoint, /-/v1/login/cli/<id>	405 with allow	404 ResourceNotFound
/<name>/-rev/<rev> with GET	allow: PUT	allow: PUT, DELETE
?write=true with the abbreviated Accept	content-type: text/plain	application/json
/login/cli/<id>	404, the page is on the website	stands in for that page

From the npm/registry docs and the npm CLI source, not sent to the live registry

• Login with PUT /-/user/org.couchdb.user:<name>: 201 and {ok, id, rev, token}, or 401 and {"ok":false}.
• Tokens and profile under /-/npm/v1/.
• The publish document, www-authenticate: OTP, the web flow with authUrl and doneUrl, 202 with retry-after.
• The one-time password message. bun compares against this exact text.
• The request sequences of deprecate, unpublish, owner and dist-tag.
• The bulk advisory request and answer.

My wording, because I do not know the text of the registry

• Each 400 Bad Request: ... for a publish body that fails a check, the 415, and the 403 for a read-only token.
• 409 Document update conflict. is the text of CouchDB.
• Publish answers 200 {"ok":true,"id","rev"} and a dist-tag write answers {"ok":"dist-tags updated"}. I recall both from npm output. I did not verify them.
• A restricted package answers 404 to a client that cannot read it. I recall this from npm. I could not probe it, because I know no private package.
• You cannot publish over the previously published versions, You do not have permission to publish and cannot be republished until 24 hours have passed are the texts of npm as I recall them. I did not probe them.
• A publish with a token that the registry does not know answers 401 without www-authenticate. npm sends www-authenticate: Basic, Bearer on collaborators. I do not know what it sends on a publish.

Where the registry is more permissive than npm

• Every user can publish into every scope. npm needs a user or an org with the name of the scope.
• A restricted package needs no paid plan. npm answers 402.
• A package of the storage directory has no maintainers, so every user can add a version to it.

What the tests saw change

One assertion of the 31 files depended on verdaccio: whoami > invalid token. Every other test passes unchanged.

bun-publish.test.ts:

• Each rm of a package directory is a registry.packages.delete() of that name. The next section has the reason.
• --ignore-scripts published publish-pkg-4 and removed publish-pkg-5. It passed only because the test before it removed publish-pkg-4. It removes the right package now.
• republishing normally fails matched /403|409|already exists|already present|cannot publish/. It asserts the status and the message.
• A new test asserts that the publish request has content-type: application/json.

harness.ts does not export VerdaccioRegistry. REVIEW.md says to delete code in the PR that makes it dead. The eight files that had a variable verdaccio keep that name, so their diff stays small.

A bug of the registry that the review found: bun publish of a version with build metadata got a 400. bun sends the key 1.0.0 and a manifest with 1.0.0+build.5. The registry accepts that now, and cli.test.ts publishes one with bun.

A checkout that ran the tests on verdaccio

Verdaccio wrote each package that a test published into test/cli/install/registry/packages. That is the fixture directory too, and ignore rules hide what verdaccio wrote. One run of the 31 files on main left 18 packages and .verdaccio-db.json there.

The new registry reads that directory. So it served those packages, and a publish of the same version got 403 You cannot publish over the previously published versions. With the leftovers of that run in place, 15 of the 47 tests of bun-publish.test.ts failed.

• bun-publish.test.ts calls registry.packages.delete() in the 26 places where main removes a package directory. With the same leftovers in place the file passes.
• The ignore rules stay as they are on main, so the leftovers stay out of git status.
• The builds of this PR did not show this: a checkout of CI has no leftovers.

Layout

The package has the layout of test/packages/s3-server, which came to main while this PR was open: the sources in src/, the tests in test/, and the helpers of the tests in test/helpers.ts. index.ts does not import the harness. test-registry.ts has the class for the tests of bun, and the alias "registry" points to it.

One port, one registry

Bun.serve sets SO_REUSEPORT when it gets development: false (src/runtime/server/ServerConfig.rs:716). The registry passed that option, so a second registry on the same explicit port started with no error. It passes reusePort: false now, and the second one fails with EADDRINUSE. The new test fails without the option.

The tests listen on port 0. On Linux, 20000 listeners on port 0 with SO_REUSEPORT got 20000 distinct ports, so I have no sign that a test shared a port. I did not check that on macOS or Windows.

The bytecode snapshot

bundler_bytecode_portable.test.ts pins the bytecode of a bundle of libraries from test/node_modules. The bundle holds each package that a library can load. mongodb loads aws4 in a try block, when it is installed. aws4 was installed only as a dependency of @cypress/request, which is a dependency of verdaccio.

Without verdaccio the bundle has 415 packages, not 416. aws4@1.13.0 is the one difference. The bytecode is 32640 bytes smaller. The new values are the same on every platform, which is the case where the comment at the top of that file says to update the snapshot.

Measurements

CPU time, user plus system, of the test process, the bun processes it ran, and verdaccio. Three interleaved rounds on the same build of main.

file	verdaccio	this PR
bun-publish.test.ts	4.4 to 4.6 s	1.8 to 1.9 s
bun-pm-licenses.test.ts	4.9 to 5.5 s	2.5 to 2.7 s

I do not report wall-clock time. The load average of the host was 400 to 900, and the same file took 3 s and 17 s in two runs in a row.

Import cost, CPU, the lowest of the runs:

	release	debug
harness.ts	29.5 ms	1378 ms
the registry	21.5 ms	1162 ms
node:zlib alone	11.5 ms	615 ms

Other things I found

• test/bun.lock on main is stale. bun install --lockfile-only on an unchanged main drops five nested react entries. I kept them, so the lockfile diff here is verdaccio and its dependencies, plus debug, which hoists to 4.4.0.
• manifest conditional requests > a changed etag returns 200 and the new etag is cached failed once on unchanged main and passed on the next run. It uses its own mock server, not the registry. It is in test/flaky-tests.txt.
• On my local debug build, Bun.serve adds content-type: application/octet-stream to an answer that has no body: a 304, and a 401. Two release builds, one of 367d939 and one of 36cd151, do not. I did not find the cause and I saw it on one local build only. The tests here assert the exact headers on the Response of the registry, and on the wire only the headers that the registry sets.
• Bun.serve sets SO_REUSEPORT when it gets development: false. The type of reusePort says that the default is false.

Flaky tests in files that this PR edits

Two tests of migrated files passed on a retry in the earlier builds of this PR. Main has both without this change. In build 121299, for the last commit, no file of this PR is in the flaky annotations. Files outside this PR are.

• bun-install-registry.test.ts, hoisting > peers > it should hoist 1.0.1 when peer *, on Windows 11 aarch64, with a-dep@1.0.9. The same test fails the same way on the same lane in the main builds https://buildkite.com/bun/bun/builds/120426 and https://buildkite.com/bun/bun/builds/120659. I could read 11 main builds.
• bun-lock.test.ts, peer no published version satisfies > declared by a registry package. It runs against its own mock server. test/flaky-tests.txt lists it at 34 of 80 builds.

I cannot say that the rate of the first one is unchanged. On my machine it failed 1 time in 150 runs with this registry, and 0 times in 29 runs with verdaccio.

A third test failed in my runs, and not in the builds of this PR:

• bun-install-registry.test.ts, npm manifest cache entries are only reused for the package name they were saved for: failed to open manifest file ... ENOENT. It failed in 1 of 8 runs of the file. Alone, it failed in 2 of 40 runs with this registry, and in 5 of 40 runs on main with verdaccio. bun install removes a manifest file that is not valid and saves the new one in a task of the thread pool (Serializer::save_async in src/install/npm.rs). I found nothing that waits for that task before the exit. The test reads the file after the exit. test/flaky-tests.txt has failed to open ... for this file.

Reviews of the diff

My review of the diff raised 9 concerns. 8 were addressed in full: the header of a publish, an error in a handler, the export of the old name, pack(), the claims about npm, #33115, the flaky tests, and the time of the tests in cli.test.ts. One is addressed in part: the review named six follow-ups, and these Notes list the three that I can describe.

The reviews on GitHub raised 12 more. All are addressed:

• The URL of a registry names the host that it listens on. It was localhost for each host.
• A checkout with the leftovers of verdaccio failed the publish tests: see the section above.
• The ignore rules for the leftovers stay.
• intercept gets a copy of the request, so it can read the body of a request that the registry answers.
• The web login test fails with the output of bun when bun exits before it asks for the session. Before, it waited for the timeout.
• Each test of the package disposes its registry when an assertion fails.
• VerdaccioRegistry is removed. My review asked to keep the export for open PRs. The review on GitHub asked to remove it, and REVIEW.md says the same.
• A request that the registry refused left a part of its change in the package: a PUT to /<name>/-rev/<rev> with a tag that is not valid, and a deprecation with a message that is not a string. The checks come before the first change now.
• In a search, a qualifier that matched took away the miss of a word before it. A package is found when each word matches.
• A storage that is not a directory gave a registry that answered 404 for every package. The constructor throws now, and cli.ts prints the message. A read that failed does not stay as the state of the package.
• cli.ts ended with a stack trace for a --user that the registry refuses, for an option that it does not know, and for a port that is in use. One handler prints the message and the usage for each refusal now.
• cli.ts took an empty --port as port 0, and it took 0x50 and 1e3. The value must be digits now.

One more finding got no change: a scope directory that another process replaces with a file while the registry reads it. Nothing writes into the storage while a registry runs, and a check before the read has the same window. The reviewer withdrew the finding.

Related open PRs

These change VerdaccioRegistry in test/harness.ts. This PR removes that class, so git reports a conflict, and the problem each one addresses is not there with the new registry:

• test(harness): make VerdaccioRegistry.stop() actually terminate the process #36352: stop() does not end the process. The new stop() closes the server.
• test(harness): let verdaccio pick its own port and fail start() when it exits early #38891: the random port and a verdaccio that exits early. The new registry listens on port 0 in the process of the test.
• test: keep verdaccio users alive across createTestDir() calls #40219: createTestDir() removes the users. The new registry keeps them.
• test(install): run verdaccio under node in CI instead of the binary under test #40766: run verdaccio under node in CI.

These edit the line of hoist.test.ts that imports VerdaccioRegistry. Git reports a conflict on that line. The new line imports TestRegistry from "registry":

• test: pin hoisted layouts where a package is installed again below a copy of itself #43878
• install: stop hoisting a dependency cycle forever #38976

I looked at the 500 open PRs that changed last. 72 of them change a file under test/cli or test/regression, the harness, or a test with install, publish or registry in its path. I read the diff of each. No PR other than the ones above adds or changes a line with VerdaccioRegistry.

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[robobun]

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Status: ready for review. A maintainer has to choose between this PR and #33115, which has the same goal.

Review: the 15 review threads are answered and resolved. The changes for 14 of them are in f45df6a, 3600bb6, 0aae939, 79d9f7f, 6cae662 and 3b5d5ee. One finding got no change: a scope directory that another process replaces while the registry reads it. The reviewer withdrew it. 5ad1b3c gives the package the layout of test/packages/s3-server: the sources in src/, the tests in test/.

CI: build 121299 is for the last commit, 3b5d5ee. 181 of 181 jobs passed. No test file of this PR is in the flaky annotations of that build. The earlier builds of this PR failed on test/js/bun/s3/s3.test.ts only. Main repaired that test in 5de3ba4, and this branch has main merged.

To check the change, run the tests of the registry and one file that uses it:

bun bd test test/packages/registry
bun bd test test/cli/install/bun-publish.test.ts

To run the registry by hand with the fixture packages:

bun test/packages/registry/cli.ts --storage test/cli/install/registry/packages --user alice:secret

The results of my runs, the comparison with registry.npmjs.org, and the relation to #33115 are in the Notes of the description.

[robobun]

Related: #33115 has the same goal. It is older (2026-06-30), wider in scope, and it conflicts with main. 24 files are changed by both PRs, so only one of the two can land as it is. The comparison and the two options are in #33115 (comment). The choice waits for a maintainer. This comment asks for no change to this PR.

What #33115 has and this PR does not have, in case this PR lands first and later PRs take these parts:

• It replaces dummy.registry.ts and simple-dummy-registry.ts. 18 test files still import them here.
• Packages can be declared in code (registry.define(...)). The registry packs the tarball and derives the packument.
• A tarball writer whose output is byte-equal to npm pack, proven by 5 golden files.
• The fixtures are source directories. 43 .tgz files stay, and the packument JSON files are gone.
• test/cli/install/registry-resolver-matrix.test.ts.

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Changes

The pull request adds an npm-compatible test registry with authentication, package storage, HTTP handling, publishing, search, advisories, and CLI support. Existing install tests migrate from VerdaccioRegistry to TestRegistry. Verdaccio configuration and dependencies are removed. A bytecode snapshot is updated.

Test registry implementation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Registry primitives test/packages/registry/src/*, test/packages/registry/test/helpers.ts	Adds registry types and helpers for authentication, HTTP responses, package validation, packument rendering, advisories, and fixtures.
Package storage and publishing test/packages/registry/src/packages.ts, test/packages/registry/test/publish.test.ts	Adds package loading, access policies, publication validation, revisions, tags, unpublishing, tarball handling, and related tests.
Registry server and service routes test/packages/registry/src/registry.ts, test/packages/registry/test/auth.test.ts, test/packages/registry/test/read.test.ts, test/packages/registry/test/cli.test.ts	Adds registry lifecycle, request routing, authentication, package and service endpoints, search, sessions, and HTTP response behavior.
Test registry migration test/packages/registry/cli.ts, test/packages/registry/test-registry.ts, test/cli/install/*, test/harness.ts, test/package.json, test/tsconfig.json	Adds the registry CLI and TestRegistry helpers. Migrates existing tests and removes the Verdaccio implementation, configuration, and dependencies.
Bytecode snapshot test/bundler/bundler_bytecode_portable.test.ts	Updates the expected JavaScript hash, bytecode size, and bytecode hash.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6cae6

The registry can cache a missing-package response after a storage read error, and malformed port input can start it unexpectedly. These should be fixed or accepted by the owner, but neither establishes a broad merge-blocking failure.

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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the spawnSync hazard the description names (the registry runs on the test thread): the only spawnSync calls in the migrated files are bun pm ls in bun-install-registry.test.ts:7617 and the installs in migration/migrate.test.ts, which run against that file's own localRegistry() server or no registry at all — none of them talk to the in-thread TestRegistry, so no migrated test hangs on it.

Extended reasoning...

The change replaces verdaccio with an in-process npm registry under test/packages/registry (~4.8k lines added) and rewires 31 install test files, harness.ts, .gitignore and the test lockfile to it; it touches test-only auth and publish handling, not runtime code. Inline findings already cover the leftover-fixture and resource-cleanup problems, so this note only records the spawnSync-against-in-thread-server concern that was checked and ruled out.

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[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

The points from my earlier review are addressed in the code as of 0aae939 (URL host derived from hostname, intercept gets a request.clone(), packages.delete(name) before every publish, the packages .gitignore kept, the VerdaccioRegistry shim gone, Promise.race against early exit in cli.test.ts, using in read.test.ts). Beyond the one inline nit, I also checked that src/ never writes to the fixture directory (publishes stay in memory), that tarball file names derived from stored dist.tarball URLs reject separators and leading dots before being joined to the package directory, and that stop() uses server.stop(true) so live connections do not outlive a test file. A ~5k-line registry replacing verdaccio across 31 install test files, with two coderabbit inline threads still open, is still worth a human maintainer's look.

Extended reasoning...

The PR adds an in-process npm registry (test/packages/registry, ~2.5k lines of implementation plus its own 165-test suite) and migrates 31 install test files from VerdaccioRegistry to TestRegistry, removes verdaccio from test/package.json and the lockfile, and updates CLAUDE.md, tsconfig paths and flaky-tests.txt. The security-relevant surface is test-only: auth/token handling and path construction from stored tarball URLs inside the mock registry; the path join is guarded and nothing is written to disk. Every finding from my prior review is addressed by later commits, verified in the code rather than from thread resolution. Not approving because the change is large and introduces a new shared test subsystem, and two third-party inline comments (packages.ts:479, registry.ts:792) are unresolved with only one commit after them.

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- Line 589: Update entries to treat only ENOENT as an empty directory result and
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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[claude]

I reviewed the latest push and found no bugs; the points from my earlier rounds are addressed in the code (the harness shim is gone, intercept gets a cloned request, a missing storage directory is refused, cli.ts reports every refusal through the usage path, and the verdaccio-era ignore rules stay). A maintainer look is still worthwhile: this replaces the install-test registry wholesale (about 5,100 added lines across 31 test files plus a new package) and overlaps with #33115, so which design lands is a decision for a human.

What was reviewed:

• test/packages/registry/src/* request routing, auth/token handling, publish and tarball paths, and how errors thrown in handlers surface through stop().
• The 31 migrated install tests for assertions that changed with the registry swap (/-/whoami 401, publish Content-Type).
• cli.ts --port= with an empty value: ruled out, the digits-only check at cli.ts:38 rejects it.

Extended reasoning...

The PR removes verdaccio and adds an in-process npm registry on Bun.serve under test/packages/registry, migrating 31 install test files, the test lockfile, harness.ts, tsconfig and the bytecode snapshot; nothing under src/ changes. The only security-adjacent surface is the test registry's own auth and token logic, which serves tests only. Every finding from the three earlier rounds is reflected in the current tree and this round's hunt ran dry, but the change is large, restructures shared test infrastructure, and competes with an open PR for the same goal, so it is not a candidate for approval without a maintainer.