mise/Q/How can I search for an npm tool?

• How can I search for an npm/ Aube mise/Tool? card

  • My Answer - 3 steps

    • Step 1 - npm/search/--searchlimit for discovery
      • npm search --searchlimit 1 rulesync

        • rulesync
          Unified AI rules management CLI tool that generates configuration files for various AI development tools
          Version 8.21.0 published 2026-05-26 by GitHub Actions
          Maintainers: dyoshikawa
          Keywords: ai cli cline configuration copilot cursor development rules
          https://npm.im/rulesync

    • Step 2 (Optional) - npm/view for tool to confirm choice
      • npm view rulesync

        • rulesync@8.21.0 | MIT | deps: 16 | versions: 253
          Unified AI rules management CLI tool that generates configuration files for various AI development tools
          https://github.com/dyoshikawa/rulesync#readme
          
          keywords: ai, cli, cline, configuration, copilot, cursor, development, rules
          
          bin: rulesync
          
          dist
          .tarball: https://registry.npmjs.org/rulesync/-/rulesync-8.21.0.tgz
          .shasum: 2f4c6890d1c963d756727331cf26c51f3904818d
          .integrity: sha512-CesPQRnK+HZ3YvGFUq1pvVgxDwf4l/29PLoOKwA/5flneOvN4ccVEIsX6u6VBEfYKZnv59dxGAySbrYdwdy23Q==
          .unpackedSize: 2.9 MB
          
          dependencies:
          @modelcontextprotocol/sdk: 1.27.1, @octokit/request-error: 7.1.0, @octokit/rest: 22.0.1, @toon-format/toon: 2.1.0, @valibot/to-json-schema: 1.6.0, commander: 14.0.3, effect: 3.20.0, es-toolkit: 1.45.1, fastmcp: 3.34.0, globby: 16.1.1, gray-matter: 4.0.3, js-yaml: 4.1.1, jsonc-parser: 3.3.1, smol-toml: 1.6.1, sury: 10.0.4, zod: 4.3.6
          
          maintainers:
          - dyoshikawa <dyoshikawa1993@gmail.com>
          
          dist-tags:
          latest: 8.21.0
          
          published 23 hours ago by GitHub Actions <npm-oidc-no-reply@github.com>
          

    • Step 3 - mise/use/--global for the tool, prefixed by npm
      • mise use -g npm:rulesync
      • note, if you do this, you'll subsequently need to do chezmoi/add on mise/Config/mise.toml/Global to make sure those changes make it into My/Dotfiles

  • AI Answer

    • Short answer: use npm search <term> for discovery, then mise use npm:<package> (or mise use -g npm:<package>) once you know the package name.
    • Why not mise search: mise search searches the mise registry of tool shorthands, not arbitrary npm packages.
    • Why not aube search: Aube treats search as an out-of-scope registry helper and points you to the npm command instead.
    • What the backend changes: npm.package_manager = "aube" changes how the npm: backend installs packages; package discovery is still outside mise search.
    • Practical flow: run npm search eslint (or search on npmjs.com), then install the package you want with mise use npm:eslint or mise use -g npm:eslint.
    • mise search
    • mise npm backend
    • aube README
    • npm search