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Hi! I'm trying out ESC. Liking the concept so far but I've hit an issue.

My repo uses a private NPM library. I've added  `NPM_TOKEN` to the environment variables in my ESC environment, and imported the ESC environment to my stack.

When I run `preview` in Pulumi Cloud Deployments, the `installing dependencies` step fails (can't find the private library). But if I add `NPM_TOKEN` as an environment variable directly to the Pulumi Deployments configuration, it works.

Is it expected that environment variables in ESC are not available before the actual `pulumi preview` command runs?

Hi <@U07LUGL00KE>! Yeah, what you're running into is a known issue at the moment unfortunately. We need to extend the support for ESC to earlier steps in Deployments for this to work. Current workaround would be to skip the automatic dependency installation step in your deployment settings and then use a pre-run command like `pulumi login &amp;&amp; pulumi env run {org/env] -- npm install`