diff --git a/info.json b/info.json
index 7c4dfd9..be3c354 100644
--- a/info.json
+++ b/info.json
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
       "name": "dprint-plugin-typescript",
       "description": "TypeScript/JavaScript code formatter.",
       "website": "https://dprint.dev/plugins/typescript/",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "@dprint/typescript"
+      },
       "selected": true,
       "configKey": "typescript",
       "keywords": [
@@ -33,6 +36,9 @@
       "name": "dprint-plugin-json",
       "description": "JSON/JSONC code formatter.",
       "website": "https://dprint.dev/plugins/json/",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "@dprint/json"
+      },
       "selected": true,
       "configKey": "json",
       "keywords": [
@@ -51,6 +57,9 @@
       "name": "dprint-plugin-markdown",
       "description": "Markdown code formatter.",
       "website": "https://dprint.dev/plugins/markdown/",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "@dprint/markdown"
+      },
       "selected": true,
       "configKey": "markdown",
       "keywords": [
@@ -72,6 +81,9 @@
       "name": "dprint-plugin-toml",
       "description": "TOML code formatter.",
       "website": "https://dprint.dev/plugins/toml/",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "@dprint/toml"
+      },
       "selected": true,
       "configKey": "toml",
       "keywords": [
@@ -87,6 +99,9 @@
       "name": "dprint-plugin-dockerfile",
       "description": "Dockerfile code formatter.",
       "website": "https://dprint.dev/plugins/dockerfile/",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "@dprint/dockerfile"
+      },
       "selected": false,
       "configKey": "dockerfile",
       "keywords": [
@@ -106,6 +121,9 @@
       "name": "dprint-plugin-biome",
       "description": "Biome (JS/TS/JSON) wrapper plugin.",
       "website": "https://dprint.dev/plugins/biome/",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "@dprint/biome"
+      },
       "selected": false,
       "configKey": "biome",
       "keywords": [
@@ -135,6 +153,9 @@
       "name": "dprint-plugin-oxc",
       "description": "Oxc (JS/TS) wrapper plugin.",
       "website": "https://dprint.dev/plugins/oxc/",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "@dprint/oxc"
+      },
       "selected": false,
       "configKey": "oxc",
       "keywords": [
@@ -161,6 +182,9 @@
       "name": "dprint-plugin-mago",
       "description": "Mago (PHP) wrapper plugin.",
       "website": "https://dprint.dev/plugins/mago/",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "@dprint/mago"
+      },
       "selected": false,
       "configKey": "mago",
       "keywords": [
@@ -177,6 +201,9 @@
       "name": "dprint-plugin-ruff",
       "description": "Ruff (Python) wrapper plugin.",
       "website": "https://dprint.dev/plugins/ruff/",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "@dprint/ruff"
+      },
       "selected": false,
       "configKey": "ruff",
       "keywords": [
@@ -195,6 +222,9 @@
       "name": "dprint-plugin-jupyter",
       "description": "Jupyter notebook code block formatter.",
       "website": "https://dprint.dev/plugins/jupyter/",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "@dprint/jupyter"
+      },
       "selected": false,
       "configKey": "jupyter",
       "keywords": [
@@ -212,6 +242,9 @@
       "name": "jakebailey/gofumpt",
       "description": "Gofumpt (Go) wrapper plugin.",
       "website": "https://dprint.dev/plugins/gofumpt/",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "@jakebailey/dprint-plugin-gofumpt"
+      },
       "selected": false,
       "configKey": "gofumpt",
       "keywords": [
@@ -229,6 +262,9 @@
       "name": "g-plane/malva",
       "description": "CSS, SCSS, Sass and Less formatter.",
       "website": "https://dprint.dev/plugins/malva/",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "dprint-plugin-malva"
+      },
       "selected": true,
       "configKey": "malva",
       "keywords": [
@@ -252,6 +288,9 @@
       "name": "g-plane/markup_fmt",
       "description": "HTML, Vue, Svelte, Astro, Angular, Jinja, Twig, Nunjucks, and Vento formatter.",
       "website": "https://dprint.dev/plugins/markup_fmt/",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "dprint-plugin-markup"
+      },
       "selected": true,
       "configKey": "markup",
       "keywords": [
@@ -298,6 +337,9 @@
       "name": "g-plane/pretty_yaml",
       "description": "YAML formatter.",
       "website": "https://dprint.dev/plugins/pretty_yaml/",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "dprint-plugin-yaml"
+      },
       "selected": true,
       "configKey": "yaml",
       "keywords": [
@@ -316,6 +358,9 @@
       "name": "g-plane/pretty_graphql",
       "description": "GraphQL formatter.",
       "website": "https://dprint.dev/plugins/pretty_graphql/",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "dprint-plugin-graphql"
+      },
       "selected": false,
       "configKey": "graphql",
       "keywords": [
@@ -332,6 +377,9 @@
     {
       "name": "bartlomieju/lax-css",
       "description": "CSS, SCSS, and Less formatter that never reinterprets your styles.",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "lax-css"
+      },
       "selected": false,
       "configKey": "css",
       "keywords": [
@@ -352,6 +400,9 @@
     {
       "name": "bartlomieju/lax-markup",
       "description": "HTML, XML, SVG, Vue, Svelte, and Astro formatter that preserves rendering-critical whitespace.",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "lax-markup"
+      },
       "selected": false,
       "configKey": "markup",
       "keywords": [
@@ -377,6 +428,9 @@
     {
       "name": "bartlomieju/lax-sql",
       "description": "Dialect-agnostic SQL formatter.",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "lax-sql"
+      },
       "selected": false,
       "configKey": "sql",
       "keywords": [
@@ -438,6 +492,9 @@
       "name": "dprint-plugin-prettier",
       "description": "Prettier wrapper plugin (consider faster dedicated plugins for JS/TS, CSS, etc.).",
       "website": "https://dprint.dev/plugins/prettier/",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "@dprint/prettier"
+      },
       "selected": false,
       "configKey": "prettier",
       "keywords": [
@@ -483,6 +540,9 @@
       "name": "dprint-plugin-roslyn",
       "description": "C# and Visual Basic code formatter (Roslyn).",
       "website": "https://dprint.dev/plugins/roslyn/",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "@dprint/roslyn"
+      },
       "selected": false,
       "configKey": "roslyn",
       "keywords": [
@@ -504,6 +564,9 @@
       "name": "dprint-plugin-exec",
       "description": "Formats code using formatting CLIs installed on the host machine (rustfmt, clang-format, shfmt, etc.).",
       "website": "https://dprint.dev/plugins/exec/",
+      "npm": {
+        "name": "@dprint/exec"
+      },
       "selected": false,
       "configKey": "exec",
       "keywords": [
diff --git a/plugins.test.ts b/plugins.test.ts
index d02952b..1511fc3 100644
--- a/plugins.test.ts
+++ b/plugins.test.ts
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ it("tryResolveUserLatestJson", async () => {
       url: `https://plugins.dprint.dev/typescript-${releaseInfo!.tagName}.wasm`,
       version: releaseInfo!.tagName,
       checksum: releaseInfo!.checksum,
+      npm: { name: "@dprint/typescript" },
     });
   }
   // dprint repo full name
@@ -100,6 +101,7 @@ it("tryResolveUserLatestJson", async () => {
       url: `https://plugins.dprint.dev/typescript-${releaseInfo!.tagName}.wasm`,
       version: releaseInfo!.tagName,
       checksum: releaseInfo!.checksum,
+      npm: { name: "@dprint/typescript" },
     });
   }
   // non-dprint repo
@@ -134,6 +136,19 @@ it("tryResolveUserLatestJson", async () => {
       url: `https://plugins.dprint.dev/prettier-${releaseInfo!.tagName}.json`,
       version: releaseInfo!.tagName,
       checksum: releaseInfo!.checksum,
+      npm: { name: "@dprint/prettier" },
+    });
+  }
+  // community repo published to npm
+  {
+    const result = await getValidResultForUrl("https://plugins.dprint.dev/g-plane/malva/latest.json");
+    const releaseInfo = await getLatestReleaseInfo("g-plane", "malva");
+    expect(result).toEqual({
+      schemaVersion: 1,
+      url: `https://plugins.dprint.dev/g-plane/malva-${releaseInfo!.tagName}.wasm`,
+      version: releaseInfo!.tagName.replace(/^v/, ""),
+      checksum: releaseInfo!.checksum,
+      npm: { name: "dprint-plugin-malva" },
     });
   }
 
diff --git a/plugins.ts b/plugins.ts
index 47a161e..0027e33 100644
--- a/plugins.ts
+++ b/plugins.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import infoJson from "./info.json" with { type: "json" };
 import { checkGithubRepoExists, getLatestReleaseInfo } from "./utils/mod.js";
 
 const tagPattern = "([A-Za-z0-9\._]+)";
@@ -57,6 +58,16 @@ const KNOWN_NON_PREFIXED_REPOS = new Set([
   "lucacasonato/mf2-tools",
 ]);
 
+/** The npm package a plugin is distributed as. */
+export interface PluginNpmInfo {
+  name: string;
+}
+
+// the npm packages declared in info.json, keyed by `username/repo`. both the
+// prefixed and unprefixed repo names are registered because either may be the
+// resolved repo name (ex. `dprint/dprint-plugin-typescript` and `g-plane/malva`)
+const npmPackagesByRepo = buildNpmPackagesByRepo();
+
 const APPROVED_ASSET_REPOS = new Set([
   "drluckyspin/dprint-plugin-swift",
 ]);
@@ -128,6 +139,8 @@ export async function tryResolveLatestJson(url: URL) {
     url: latestInfo.url,
     version: latestInfo.version,
     checksum: latestInfo.checksum,
+    // when set, the cli writes an npm specifier into config files instead of the url
+    npm: latestInfo.npm,
   };
 }
 
@@ -155,6 +168,8 @@ export async function getLatestInfo(username: string, repoName: string, origin:
     // downloads are recorded under and the tag of the latest release
     downloadKey: `${username}/${repoName}`,
     tag: releaseInfo.tagName,
+    // the npm package this plugin is published to, when it has one
+    npm: npmPackagesByRepo.get(`${username}/${repoName}`),
   };
 }
 
@@ -204,6 +219,21 @@ async function userRepoTagPatternMapper(
   return undefined;
 }
 
+function buildNpmPackagesByRepo() {
+  const result = new Map<string, PluginNpmInfo>();
+  for (const plugin of infoJson.latest as { name: string; npm?: PluginNpmInfo }[]) {
+    if (plugin.npm == null) {
+      continue;
+    }
+    const slashIndex = plugin.name.indexOf("/");
+    const username = slashIndex === -1 ? "dprint" : plugin.name.slice(0, slashIndex);
+    const shortName = plugin.name.slice(slashIndex + 1).replace(/^dprint-plugin-/, "");
+    result.set(`${username}/${shortName}`, plugin.npm);
+    result.set(`${username}/dprint-plugin-${shortName}`, plugin.npm);
+  }
+  return result;
+}
+
 async function getFullRepoName(username: string, repoName: string) {
   if (repoName.startsWith("dprint-plugin-")) {
     return repoName;