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# npm registry — no auth, version + freshness

**Observed 2026-09-25** at `https://registry.npmjs.org/express` (with a User-Agent).

- **No authentication** required; HTTP 200.
- `dist-tags.latest` gave **5.2.1**; `time.modified` was **2026-09-18T05:35:08Z** (freshness).

Useful to an agent needing the current version of an npm package.

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