Take a look at this example: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/nodejs-docs-samples/blob/master/appengine/hello-world/standard/package.json

cloud-repo-tools, devDependencies and most of the scripts do not serve the purpose of giving example code to our users, instead, they are data used by our maintenance tools.

Could they be in a different file that does not interfere with package.json ?