[adelrodriguez]

Most people run Packref with npx. The engines.node: ">=22" field did not help them. It only made npm warn, or fail with engine-strict, on Node versions where the CLI works. Development already gets its Node version from .node-version. This PR removes the field. The README now says that Packref supports Node.js 22.19 or later. npm still checks dependency engines, and undici@8 (from @effect/platform-node) requires >=22.19.0.

Why Node 22.19 and not lower

I ran the built CLI against the registry on several Node versions:

Node	Result
18.20.8, 20.11.1	Fails at startup: node:util does not export styleText (needed by @clack/prompts)
20.12.0, 20.20.2	add, list, remove, install, sync work
22.0.0, 22.19.0	All work

The real floor is 20.12. But Node 20 is end-of-life, and a dependency update could break it with no warning. Node 22 is the oldest LTS that still gets support. Packref does not load undici at runtime because it uses NodeHttpClient.layerFetch. But with engine-strict=true, npm refuses to install on Node versions below 22.19, so the README states 22.19.

The tsdown output is byte-for-byte the same with and without the engines field.

Merge danger

• Door: two-way. To undo it, add the field back in a later release.
• Blast radius: small. It changes only the install-time engine check for package consumers.

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[pullfrog]

ℹ️ One documentation correction: dependency engine checks still apply.

Reviewed changes I reviewed the package metadata, README, and changeset, and verified the packed CLI with pnpm run build:verify.

• Package metadata: Removes Packref's engines.node declaration without changing dependencies or runtime code.
• Supported versions: Adds a Node.js 22-or-later statement to the README.
• Release note: Adds a patch changeset for the removal of Packref's version check.

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[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes I reviewed the documentation changes in f9772d5 since the prior Pullfrog review.

• Limited the release claim: Clarified that this change removes only Packref's own engines.node declaration and that dependency engine checks still apply.
• Corrected the supported version: Changed the README minimum to Node.js 22.19, which matches the current dependency requirement.

The dependency lockfile confirms that undici@8.11.2 requires Node.js >=22.19.0. The current CI build, check, analyze, unit, and integration checks passed. I did not repeat local runtime tests for these documentation changes.

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