---
title: npm-team
section: 1
description: Manage organization teams and team memberships
---

### Synopsis

```bash
npm team create <scope:team> [--otp <otpcode>]
npm team destroy <scope:team> [--otp <otpcode>]
npm team add <scope:team> <user> [--otp <otpcode>]
npm team rm <scope:team> <user> [--otp <otpcode>]
npm team ls <scope>|<scope:team>
```

Note: This command is unaware of workspaces.

### Description

Used to manage teams in organizations, and change team memberships. Does not
handle permissions for packages.

Teams must always be fully qualified with the organization/scope they belong to
when operating on them, separated by a colon (`:`). That is, if you have a
`newteam` team in an `org` organization, you must always refer to that team
as `@org:newteam` in these commands.

If you have two-factor authentication enabled in `auth-and-writes` mode, then
you can provide a code from your authenticator with `[--otp <otpcode>]`.
If you don't include this then you will be taken through a second factor flow based
on your `authtype`.

* create / destroy:
  Create a new team, or destroy an existing one. Note: You cannot remove the
  `developers` team, <a href="https://docs.npmjs.com/about-developers-team" target="_blank">learn more.</a>

  Here's how to create a new team `newteam` under the `org` org:

  ```bash
  npm team create @org:newteam
  ```

  You should see a confirming message such as: `+@org:newteam` once the new
  team has been created.

* add:
  Add a user to an existing team.

  Adding a new user `username` to a team named `newteam` under the `org` org:

  ```bash
  npm team add @org:newteam username
  ```

  On success, you should see a message: `username added to @org:newteam`

* rm:
  Using `npm team rm` you can also remove users from a team they belong to.

  Here's an example removing user `username` from `newteam` team
  in `org` organization:

  ```bash
  npm team rm @org:newteam username
  ```

  Once the user is removed a confirmation message is displayed:
  `username removed from @org:newteam`

* ls:
  If performed on an organization name, will return a list of existing teams
  under that organization. If performed on a team, it will instead return a list
  of all users belonging to that particular team.

  Here's an example of how to list all teams from an org named `org`:

  ```bash
  npm team ls @org
  ```

  Example listing all members of a team named `newteam`:

  ```bash
  npm team ls @org:newteam
  ```

### Details

`npm team` always operates directly on the current registry, configurable from
the command line using `--registry=<registry url>`.

You must be a *team admin* to create teams and manage team membership, under
the given organization. Listing teams and team memberships may be done by
any member of the organization.

Organization creation and management of team admins and *organization* members
is done through the website, not the npm CLI.

To use teams to manage permissions on packages belonging to your organization,
use the `npm access` command to grant or revoke the appropriate permissions.

### Configuration

#### `registry`

* Default: "https://registry.npmjs.org/"
* Type: URL

The base URL of the npm registry.

#### `otp`

* Default: null
* Type: null or String

This is a one-time password from a two-factor authenticator. It's needed
when publishing or changing package permissions with `npm access`.

If not set, and a registry response fails with a challenge for a one-time
password, npm will prompt on the command line for one.

#### `parseable`

* Default: false
* Type: Boolean

Output parseable results from commands that write to standard output. For
`npm search`, this will be tab-separated table format.

#### `json`

* Default: false
* Type: Boolean

Whether or not to output JSON data, rather than the normal output.

* In `npm pkg set` it enables parsing set values with JSON.parse() before
  saving them to your `package.json`.

Not supported by all npm commands.

### See Also

* [npm access](/commands/npm-access)
* [npm config](/commands/npm-config)
* [npm registry](/using-npm/registry)