pnpm dlx expect-cli@latest fails to resolve React from ink-link

[lilijusatre]

Summary

Running the current CLI through pnpm fails before Expect starts, including for --version:

pnpm dlx expect-cli@latest --version

Minimal reproduction

From a fresh temporary directory:

mkdir expect-pnpm-repro
cd expect-pnpm-repro
pnpm dlx expect-cli@latest --version

Actual behavior

Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package 'react' imported from
~/Library/pnpm/store/v11/links/@/ink-link/5.0.0/.../node_modules/ink-link/dist/index.js
Did you mean to import "react/jsx-runtime.js"?

The process exits before printing the Expect version or running init.

Expected behavior

pnpm dlx expect-cli@latest --version should print the installed CLI version and exit successfully.

Environment

• Expect CLI: 0.1.3
• pnpm: 11.21.0
• Node.js: 24.12.0
• macOS: 26.6.1
• Architecture: arm64

Investigation

expect-cli@0.1.3 declares both:

react: ^19.2.4
ink-link: ^5.0.0

However, ink-link@5.0.0 imports React while only declaring ink >=6 as a peer dependency. The isolated layout created by pnpm dlx therefore does not make React resolvable from ink-link.

A hoisted local installation works:

pnpm init --init-package-manager=false
pnpm add expect-cli@0.1.3 --config.node-linker=hoisted --ignore-scripts
pnpm exec expect-cli --version
# 0.1.3

This seems distinct from #26: that issue concerned init hanging while installing the skill, while this failure occurs before the CLI can start.

Possible resolution paths may be updating/replacing ink-link, or packaging Expect so React is resolvable from that dependency under pnpm's isolated dlx environment.