I was going to write something like "isn't name required" but today I learned it's not required if the package isn't published as would be the case with a monorepo root package. By convention I've always used a -monorepo suffix (e.g foobar-monorepo) for the root package name and set private to true to prevent any accidental publish.

Do you have any suggestions how this could be implemented? If package.json is modified semantic-release would throw an error that the working copy is dirty.

If this plugin can override this semantic-release rule, maybe follow the convention to let name empty but made warning for private at true for prevent accidental publishing.