Why do we need this improvement?

The current npm installation process for the CLI is significantly slow, taking approximately 4m 13s on a fresh install (local benchmark). This creates friction for new contributors and slows down CI/CD pipelines where fresh installs occur frequently.

Furthermore, npm's hoisting mechanism is currently masking several missing peer dependencies (e.g., ajv, tslib, spectral). This results in a "fragile" dependency graph where the project relies on packages that aren't explicitly declared in package.json.

How will this change help?

• Performance: Migrating to pnpm reduces fresh installation time to ~1m 19s. This is a ~3.2x speed improvement.

• Stability: pnpm uses a strict dependency resolution strategy. This forces us to explicitly declare all used dependencies, preventing "phantom dependency" bugs and ensuring the build is deterministic across all environments.

Screenshots

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How could it be implemented/designed?

• Remove package-lock.json.

• Generate pnpm-lock.yaml.

• Update package.json to include the missing dependencies identified during the migration (specifically: tslib, ajv, ajv-formats, @stoplight/spectral-core, @stoplight/spectral-formatters, @apidevtools/json-schema-ref-parser).

• Update CI workflows to use pnpm install instead of npm install.

🚧 Breaking changes

Yes

👀 Have you checked for similar open issues?

• I checked and didn't find a similar issue

🏢 Have you read the Contributing Guidelines?

• I have read the Contributing Guidelines

Are you willing to work on this issue?

Yes I am willing to submit a PR!