How to use Artifactory (or similar) to install MCP packages

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I am writing a registry for a company to use internally to only allow approved MCP servers.
I would like to by default have the mcp.json set to install the packages from the company Artifactory server.

With pip or uvx I could do this by adding the --index-url to the install command, but I am not sure how I could do this for NPM.

Is there any configuration that can be specified in the package config/mcp.json to tell the install to use a package registry that isn't the default pypi, npmjs etc.....

Thanks so much for your help.