[Bug] `devEngines.packageManager` set to pnpm in `package.json` prevents local-action from running `npm exec tsx`

[danny900714]

I'm using pnpm as the package manager. However, with the following package.json settings, local-action failed to start when running pnpm run local-action.

{
  "name": "github-action",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "keywords": [],
  "license": "MIT",
  "author": "",
  "type": "module",
  "scripts": {
    "local-action": "local-action . src/main.ts .env",
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@github/local-action": "^7.0.1"
  },
  "devEngines": {
    "packageManager": {
      "name": "pnpm",
      "version": "^11.5.2",
      "onFail": "download"
    }
  }
}

Below is the error log:

npm error code EBADDEVENGINES
npm error EBADDEVENGINES The developer of this package has specified the following through devEngines
npm error EBADDEVENGINES Invalid devEngines.packageManager
npm error EBADDEVENGINES Invalid name "pnpm" does not match "npm" for "packageManager"
npm error EBADDEVENGINES {
npm error EBADDEVENGINES   current: { name: 'npm', version: '11.13.0' },
npm error EBADDEVENGINES   required: { name: 'pnpm', version: '^11.5.2', onFail: 'download' }
npm error EBADDEVENGINES }
npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /<home-directory>/.npm/_logs/2026-06-11T14_13_09_439Z-debug-0.log

Error: Command failed: npm exec tsx "<project-directory>/node_modules/.pnpm/@github+local-action@7.0.1/node_modules/@github/local-action/src/index.ts" -- . src/main.ts .env
    at genericNodeError (node:internal/errors:985:15)
    at wrappedFn (node:internal/errors:539:14)
    at checkExecSyncError (node:child_process:925:11)
    at execSync (node:child_process:997:15)
    at entrypoint (file://<project-directory>/node_modules/.pnpm/@github+local-action@7.0.1/node_modules/@github/local-action/bin/local-action.js:108:5)
    at file://<project-directory>/node_modules/.pnpm/@github+local-action@7.0.1/node_modules/@github/local-action/bin/local-action.js:121:1
    at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:439:25)
    at async onImport.tracePromise.__proto__ (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:633:26)
    at async asyncRunEntryPointWithESMLoader (node:internal/modules/run_main:101:5) {
  status: 1,
  signal: null,
  output: [ null, null, null ],
  pid: 70918,
  stdout: null,
  stderr: null
}
[ELIFECYCLE] Command failed with exit code 1.

It seems that setting devEngines.packageManager set to pnpm in package.json prevents local-action from running npm exec tsx "<project-directory>/node_modules/.pnpm/@github+local-action@7.0.1/node_modules/@github/local-action/src/index.ts" -- . src/main.ts .env.

Consider running tsx without relying on package manager by adding tsx as dependency. This makes local-action independent from package managers.