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+#!/usr/bin/env node
+// Prints the npm package names of every workspace package that should be
+// published, one per line. A package is publishable when its package.json
+// does not set "private": true. Walks packages/ recursively because some
+// packages are nested (e.g. packages/uc/catalogs). Mirrors the convention
+// used by scripts/check-licenses.mjs.
+
+import {readFile, readdir} from 'node:fs/promises';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import {fileURLToPath} from 'node:url';
+
+const repoRoot = path.resolve(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '..');
+const packagesDir = path.join(repoRoot, 'packages');
+
+// Directories we never descend into while searching for package.json files.
+const SKIP_DIRS = new Set(['node_modules', 'dist', 'src', 'tests']);
+
+async function readJSON(p) {
+  return JSON.parse(await readFile(p, 'utf8'));
+}
+
+// Recursively yields the path of every package.json found under `dir`,
+// skipping SKIP_DIRS. Stops descending into a directory once its own
+// package.json is found so we do not pick up nested fixtures.
+async function* findPackageJsons(dir) {
+  const entries = await readdir(dir, {withFileTypes: true});
+  if (entries.some((e) => e.isFile() && e.name === 'package.json')) {
+    yield path.join(dir, 'package.json');
+    return;
+  }
+  for (const entry of entries) {
+    if (!entry.isDirectory()) continue;
+    if (SKIP_DIRS.has(entry.name)) continue;
+    yield* findPackageJsons(path.join(dir, entry.name));
+  }
+}
+
+async function main() {
+  const names = [];
+  for await (const pkgJsonPath of findPackageJsons(packagesDir)) {
+    const pkg = await readJSON(pkgJsonPath);
+    if (pkg.private === true) continue;
+    if (typeof pkg.name !== 'string' || pkg.name.length === 0) {
+      const rel = path.relative(repoRoot, pkgJsonPath);
+      throw new Error(`${rel} is missing a "name" field`);
+    }
+    names.push(pkg.name);
+  }
+
+  names.sort();
+  for (const name of names) console.log(name);
+}
+
+main().catch((err) => {
+  console.error(err);
+  process.exit(1);
+});