diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 8599e0ee44e..ad44caffc6c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
   },
   "files": [
     "/bin",
-    "/npm-shrinkwrap.json",
     "/scripts",
     "/functions-templates",
     "/dist"
@@ -52,7 +51,6 @@
     "test:integration": "vitest run --retry=3 tests/integration/",
     "test:unit": "vitest run tests/unit/",
     "postinstall": "node ./scripts/postinstall.js",
-    "prepublishOnly": "node ./scripts/prepublishOnly.js",
     "typecheck": "tsc",
     "typecheck:watch": "tsc --watch"
   },
diff --git a/scripts/netlifyPackage.js b/scripts/netlifyPackage.js
index b38cdc86aa4..3ee56e564c3 100644
--- a/scripts/netlifyPackage.js
+++ b/scripts/netlifyPackage.js
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 // @ts-check
-import assert from 'node:assert'
-import { dirname, resolve } from 'node:path'
-import { readFile, stat, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises'
-
-import execa from 'execa'
+import { resolve } from 'node:path'
+import { readFile, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises'
 
 /**
  * @import {Package} from "normalize-package-data"
@@ -35,34 +32,13 @@ async function preparePackageJSON() {
     ...packageJSON.contents,
     main: './dist/index.js',
     name: 'netlify',
-    scripts: {
-      ...packageJSON.contents.scripts,
-
-      // We don't need the pre-publish script because we expect the work in
-      // there to be done when publishing the `netlify-cli` package. We'll
-      // ensure this is the case by throwing if a shrinkwrap file isn't found.
-      prepublishOnly: undefined,
-    },
     bin: {
       npxnetlify: binPath,
     },
   }
 
-  try {
-    const shrinkwrap = await stat(resolve(packageJSON.path, '../npm-shrinkwrap.json'))
-
-    assert.ok(shrinkwrap.isFile())
-  } catch {
-    throw new Error('Failed to find npm-shrinkwrap.json file. Did you run the pre-publish script?')
-  }
-
   console.log(`Writing updated package.json to ${packageJSON.path}...`)
   await writeFile(packageJSON.path, `${JSON.stringify(newPackageJSON, null, 2)}\n`)
-
-  console.log('Regenerating shrinkwrap file with updated package name...')
-  await execa('npm', ['shrinkwrap'], {
-    cwd: dirname(packageJSON.path),
-  })
 }
 
 await preparePackageJSON()
diff --git a/scripts/prepublishOnly.js b/scripts/prepublishOnly.js
deleted file mode 100644
index a397a7de118..00000000000
--- a/scripts/prepublishOnly.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-import * as cp from 'node:child_process'
-import * as fs from 'node:fs/promises'
-import * as path from 'node:path'
-
-const main = async () => {
-  // It's best practice to include a shrinkwrap when shipping a CLI. npm has a bug that makes it
-  // not ignore development dependencies in an installed package's shrinkwrap, though:
-  //
-  // https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/4323
-  //
-  // Leaving development dependencies makes the CLI installation significantly larger and increases
-  // the risk of platform-specific dependency installation issues.
-  // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-properties
-  const packageJSONPath = path.join(process.cwd(), 'package.json')
-  const rawPackageJSON = await fs.readFile(packageJSONPath, 'utf8')
-
-  // Remove dev dependencies from the package.json...
-  const packageJSON = JSON.parse(rawPackageJSON)
-  Reflect.deleteProperty(packageJSON, 'devDependencies')
-  await fs.writeFile(packageJSONPath, JSON.stringify(packageJSON, null, 2))
-
-  // Prune out dev dependencies (this updates the `package-lock.json` lockfile)
-  cp.spawnSync('npm', ['prune'], { stdio: 'inherit' })
-
-  // Convert `package-lock.json` lockfile to `npm-shrinkwrap.json`
-  cp.spawnSync('npm', ['shrinkwrap'], { stdio: 'inherit' })
-}
-
-await main()