# X_REGISTRY_BOOTSTRAP_OWED

## Means

a publishable workspace is absent from the registry — its packument answers 404

## Typical cause

a package added **after** a release run: no run has ever seen it, so trusted publishing has nothing to bootstrap from. The finding names its ordinal in the derived publish order and how many packages a release publishes irreversibly before dying on this one. `@ultimat3/flags` was this until 2.0.0; `@ultimat3/scraping` until 2026-08-19

## Fix

`npm publish -w <pkg> --access public --provenance=false` ([PUBLISHING.md](https://github.com/developerz-ai/ultimate/blob/main/PUBLISHING.md) step 1), then `bun run scripts/trust-publishers.ts`

[CLI and verify](/error-codes#cli-and-verify)