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We currently pack sources, tests, etc, since files is not specified.

This sets it to the same as the CLI (minus the skills/ as create has
none).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Published releases of the create package now contain the distributable build and package metadata, while excluding source files and tests. The installed package therefore includes fewer files beyond what is needed to use the published build. This change affects the contents of the published package; it does not add or remove any public functionality.

AI review notes:
Updated against current main and added a patch changeset. The actual packed candidate keeps all 784 built files byte-for-byte, including every declared export and both frameworks’ assets. Its compressed archive falls from 39,069,215 to 19,598,324 bytes, with no runtime file changes.
Installed the packed engine with published CLI 0.72.2 outside this monorepo. The five concrete runtime entry points import successfully. React/npm with T3Env and Solid/pnpm both generate, install, build, type-check, render SSR and navigate in Chromium without replacing the document after client readiness. This uses the candidate archive, not a newly published package.
The normal pre-commit build, unit and seven blocking e2e gates passed. Other package-manager combinations were not separately installed for this packaging-only change.

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Walkthrough

The @tanstack/create package manifest now lists dist in its files array. A patch changeset records that published packages include built files and package metadata, but exclude sources and tests.

Changes: Package publishing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Published file selection packages/create/package.json, .changeset/pack-dist-only.md	The manifest lists dist in the files array. The changeset records the publishing change.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 0783b

The package restriction preserves the required runtime files and metadata, with no confirmed merge-blocking risk.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "fix(create): only pack dist" matches the main change. The PR adds a files array to packages/create/package.json that lists only dist, so npm publishes only built files and package met…
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Explanation

The title "fix(create): only pack dist" matches the main change. The PR adds a files array to packages/create/package.json that lists only dist, so npm publishes only built files and package metadata. The changeset also describes this patch release. The title is short, specific, and names the affected package.

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🦋 Changeset detected

Latest commit: 0783b03

The changes in this PR will be included in the next version bump.

This PR includes changesets to release 7 packages

Name	Type
@tanstack/create	Patch
create-start-app	Patch
create-tanstack-app	Patch
create-tanstack	Patch
create-tsrouter-app	Patch
@tanstack/create-start	Patch
@tanstack/cli	Patch

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