Corepack is a Node.js package manager orchestrator and deterministic tool installer. It manages and enforces specific versions of package managers to ensure consistent environments across different machines, developers, and continuous integration systems.
The project uses executable wrapper shims to intercept commands, allowing it to automatically download and run the correct tool version based on project configuration. It provides an offline binary provisioner that prepares package manager binaries into tarball archives for deployment in air-gapped environments.
The system handles semantic version resolution and integrity-verified binary fetching to ensure secure installations. It includes capabilities for version pinning, automatic tool enforcement, binary cache management, and registry configuration.
