diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish-to-npm.yml b/.github/workflows/publish-to-npm.yml
index 5c1482c36..9b5156af7 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish-to-npm.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish-to-npm.yml
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ jobs:
           INPUTS_NPM_TAG: latest-rc # Publish as a release candidate, so we can do our validations against it.
           AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID}}
           AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY}}
+          NPM_TOKEN: ${{secrets.NPM_TOKEN}}
   # Step 3: Run smoke tests against the release candidate.
   rc-test:
     needs: publish-rc