diff --git a/packages/artifact/package.json b/packages/artifact/package.json
index 80e91ac1..44180270 100644
--- a/packages/artifact/package.json
+++ b/packages/artifact/package.json
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
     "audit-moderate": "npm install && npm audit --json --audit-level=moderate > audit.json",
     "test": "cd ../../ && npm run test ./packages/artifact",
     "bootstrap": "cd ../../ && npm run bootstrap",
-    "tsc-run": "tsc",
+    "tsc-run": "tsc && cp src/internal/shared/package-version.cjs lib/internal/shared/",
     "tsc": "npm run bootstrap && npm run tsc-run",
     "gen:docs": "typedoc --plugin typedoc-plugin-markdown --out docs/generated src/artifact.ts --githubPages false --readme none"
   },
diff --git a/packages/artifact/src/internal/shared/package-version.cjs b/packages/artifact/src/internal/shared/package-version.cjs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bd43fc1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/artifact/src/internal/shared/package-version.cjs
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+// This file exists as a CommonJS module to read the version from package.json.
+// In an ESM package, using `require()` directly in .ts files requires disabling
+// ESLint rules and doesn't work reliably across all Node.js versions.
+// By keeping this as a .cjs file, we can use require() naturally and export
+// the version for the ESM modules to import.
+const packageJson = require('../../../package.json')
+module.exports = { version: packageJson.version }
diff --git a/packages/artifact/src/internal/shared/user-agent.ts b/packages/artifact/src/internal/shared/user-agent.ts
index 94c07e89..e4815d43 100644
--- a/packages/artifact/src/internal/shared/user-agent.ts
+++ b/packages/artifact/src/internal/shared/user-agent.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires, @typescript-eslint/no-require-imports
-const packageJson = require('../../../package.json')
+import {version} from './package-version.cjs'
 
 /**
  * Ensure that this User Agent String is used in all HTTP calls so that we can monitor telemetry between different versions of this package
  */
 export function getUserAgentString(): string {
-  return `@actions/artifact-${packageJson.version}`
+  return `@actions/artifact-${version}`
 }