diff --git a/roles/upload-npm/tasks/main.yaml b/roles/upload-npm/tasks/main.yaml
index 2216bdfb9..8a440913e 100644
--- a/roles/upload-npm/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/roles/upload-npm/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
     repo: 'https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm'
     dest: '~/.nvm'
     version: v0.37.2
+    recursive: false
 
 - name: Upload tarball to npm
   args: