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For posterity, I’ll reproduce here a response I got later from one of the Pulumi engineers:
&gt; Pulumi cannot currently be used from the Node REPL shell. The Node program needs to be able to talk to the Pulumi engine/CLI to coordinate the deployment. We are looking at a model that would allow driving things from a Node program (REPL or test suite) instead of the `pulumi` CLI as part of <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/2287>, but there's no ETA currently.