From 1813b95b41be8e468439d316a86205660c7b035e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stacey Van Herk <13419300+svanherk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:59:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] GAUD-10177 - Do not add NPM_TOKEN to release

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 README.md                                                   | 6 +++---
 .../release/templates/static/.github/workflows/release.yml  | 2 --
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2fc5520..db904a8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ npm init @brightspace-ui
 * Unit tests with cross-browser testing
 * Continuous Integration using GitHub Actions
 * Dependabot
-* [GitHub Release and publish to NPM*](#semantic-release)
+* [GitHub Release and Publishing*](#semantic-release)
 
 ### Optional
 
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ Visual diff results are published to a bucket in S3 and need special tokens to d
 
 ### Semantic Release
 
-In order for the release workflow to automatically update the version, the repo needs to be configured with a `D2L_RELEASE_TOKEN`.
+In order for the release workflow to automatically update the version, the repo needs to be configured with a `D2L_RELEASE_TOKEN`. Learn more in the [action docs](https://github.com/BrightspaceUI/actions/blob/main/docs/release-token.md).
 
-Learn more in the [action docs](https://github.com/BrightspaceUI/actions/blob/main/docs/release-token.md).
+There is also [additional setup required](https://github.com/BrightspaceUI/actions/tree/main/semantic-release#npm-package-deployment) for publishing, depending on whether your repo will publish to npm or CodeArtifact.
 
 ### Test Reporting
 
diff --git a/src/generators/release/templates/static/.github/workflows/release.yml b/src/generators/release/templates/static/.github/workflows/release.yml
index b03d32d..6a453ce 100644
--- a/src/generators/release/templates/static/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/src/generators/release/templates/static/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -22,5 +22,3 @@ jobs:
         uses: BrightspaceUI/actions/semantic-release@main
         with:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.D2L_RELEASE_TOKEN }}
-          NPM: true
-          NPM_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}