diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4609999942..74608e16e0 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3569,6 +3569,7 @@ version = "0.0.1"
 dependencies = [
  "assert_cmd",
  "base64 0.22.1",
+ "chrono",
  "clap",
  "command-extra",
  "derive_more",
@@ -3624,6 +3625,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tempfile",
  "tokio",
  "walkdir",
+ "wax",
  "which 8.0.4",
  "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
diff --git a/pacquet/crates/cli/Cargo.toml b/pacquet/crates/cli/Cargo.toml
index 694320f324..86098aeadf 100644
--- a/pacquet/crates/cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/pacquet/crates/cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ pacquet-workspace-manifest-writer         = { workspace = true }
 pacquet-workspace-projects-graph          = { workspace = true }
 pacquet-workspace-state                   = { workspace = true }
 
+chrono               = { workspace = true }
 clap                 = { workspace = true }
 derive_more          = { workspace = true }
 dialoguer            = { workspace = true }
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ tabled               = { workspace = true }
 tokio                = { workspace = true }
 which                = { workspace = true }
 base64               = { workspace = true }
+wax                  = { workspace = true }
 
 # Windows has no process groups, so a Job Object ties the lifetime of spawned
 # children (lifecycle scripts and their descendants) to pacquet's. See
diff --git a/pacquet/crates/cli/src/cli_args.rs b/pacquet/crates/cli/src/cli_args.rs
index c6f7cd5ef8..3062141c10 100644
--- a/pacquet/crates/cli/src/cli_args.rs
+++ b/pacquet/crates/cli/src/cli_args.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 pub mod add;
+pub mod cache;
 pub mod cat_file;
 pub mod cat_index;
 pub mod create;
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ pub mod why;
 
 use crate::{State, config_deps, config_overrides::ConfigOverrides};
 use add::AddArgs;
+use cache::CacheCommand;
 use cat_file::CatFileArgs;
 use cat_index::CatIndexArgs;
 use clap::{Parser, Subcommand, ValueEnum};
@@ -168,6 +170,9 @@ pub enum CliCommand {
     /// Managing the package store.
     #[clap(subcommand)]
     Store(StoreCommand),
+    /// Inspect and manage the metadata cache.
+    #[clap(subcommand)]
+    Cache(CacheCommand),
     /// Prints the contents of a file based on the hash value stored in the index file.
     CatFile(CatFileArgs),
     /// Prints the index file of a specific package from the store.
@@ -472,6 +477,7 @@ impl CliArgs {
                 args.run(|| config().map(|m| &*m))?;
             }
             CliCommand::Store(command) => command.run(|| config().map(|m| &*m))?,
+            CliCommand::Cache(command) => command.run(config()?)?,
             CliCommand::CatFile(args) => {
                 args.run(|| config().map(|m| &*m))?;
             }
diff --git a/pacquet/crates/cli/src/cli_args/cache.rs b/pacquet/crates/cli/src/cli_args/cache.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..98f72880cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pacquet/crates/cli/src/cli_args/cache.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,248 @@
+use clap::Subcommand;
+use indexmap::IndexMap;
+use miette::IntoDiagnostic;
+use pacquet_config::{Config, ResolutionMode};
+use pacquet_resolving_npm_resolver::mirror::{
+    ABBREVIATED_META_DIR, FULL_FILTERED_META_DIR, get_registry_name, load_meta,
+};
+use pacquet_store_dir::StoreIndex;
+use serde_json::json;
+use std::{
+    fs,
+    path::{Path, PathBuf},
+};
+use wax::walk::Entry;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Subcommand)]
+pub enum CacheCommand {
+    /// Lists the available packages metadata cache. Supports filtering by glob.
+    List { packages: Vec<String> },
+    /// Lists all registries that have their metadata cache locally.
+    ListRegistries,
+    /// Views information from the specified package's cache.
+    View { package: String },
+    /// Deletes metadata cache for the specified package(s). Supports patterns.
+    Delete { packages: Vec<String> },
+}
+
+impl CacheCommand {
+    fn meta_dir(config: &Config) -> &'static str {
+        if config.resolution_mode == ResolutionMode::TimeBased
+            && !config.registry_supports_time_field
+        {
+            FULL_FILTERED_META_DIR
+        } else {
+            ABBREVIATED_META_DIR
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn cache_dir(config: &Config) -> PathBuf {
+        config.cache_dir.join(Self::meta_dir(config))
+    }
+
+    /// Filesystem-safe slug of the configured registry, used as the top-level
+    /// directory under the metadata cache root. A malformed registry URL is a
+    /// configuration error, so we surface it rather than broadening the glob
+    /// scope to every registry — important because `delete` is destructive.
+    fn registry_prefix(config: &Config) -> miette::Result<String> {
+        get_registry_name(&config.registry).into_diagnostic()
+    }
+
+    /// Reject names whose glob would escape the cache root. pnpm passes filter
+    /// arguments straight into a glob; pacquet additionally guards against `..`
+    /// segments so a crafted name can't match files outside the cache tree —
+    /// `delete` removes whatever the glob resolves to.
+    fn reject_path_traversal(name: &str) -> miette::Result<()> {
+        if name.contains("..") {
+            return Err(miette::miette!(
+                "Invalid package name '{name}': path traversal sequences are not allowed"
+            ));
+        }
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    fn find_metadata_files(
+        config: &Config,
+        cache_dir: &Path,
+        packages: &[String],
+    ) -> miette::Result<Vec<String>> {
+        let registry_prefix = Self::registry_prefix(config)?;
+
+        let patterns = if packages.is_empty() {
+            vec![format!("{registry_prefix}/**")]
+        } else {
+            packages
+                .iter()
+                .map(|pkg| {
+                    Self::reject_path_traversal(pkg)?;
+                    // Filters are matched literally, as in pnpm — they are glob
+                    // segments, not package names, so they are not re-encoded.
+                    Ok(format!("{registry_prefix}/{pkg}.jsonl"))
+                })
+                .collect::<miette::Result<Vec<_>>>()?
+        };
+
+        let mut matches = Vec::new();
+        for pattern in patterns {
+            let glob = wax::Glob::new(&pattern).into_diagnostic()?;
+            for entry in glob.walk(cache_dir).filter_map(std::result::Result::ok) {
+                if !entry.file_type().is_file() {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                if let Some(path_str) =
+                    entry.path().strip_prefix(cache_dir).ok().and_then(|path| path.to_str())
+                {
+                    matches.push(path_str.replace('\\', "/"));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        matches.sort();
+        matches.dedup();
+        Ok(matches)
+    }
+
+    pub fn run(self, config: &Config) -> miette::Result<()> {
+        let cache_dir = Self::cache_dir(config);
+
+        match self {
+            CacheCommand::ListRegistries => {
+                if let Ok(entries) = fs::read_dir(&cache_dir) {
+                    let mut registries: Vec<String> = entries
+                        .filter_map(std::result::Result::ok)
+                        .filter(|entry| entry.file_type().is_ok_and(|file_type| file_type.is_dir()))
+                        .map(|entry| entry.file_name().to_string_lossy().into_owned())
+                        .collect();
+                    registries.sort();
+                    if !registries.is_empty() {
+                        println!("{}", registries.join("\n"));
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            CacheCommand::List { packages } => {
+                if !cache_dir.exists() {
+                    return Ok(());
+                }
+                let meta_files = Self::find_metadata_files(config, &cache_dir, &packages)?;
+                if !meta_files.is_empty() {
+                    println!("{}", meta_files.join("\n"));
+                }
+            }
+            CacheCommand::Delete { packages } => {
+                if !cache_dir.exists() {
+                    return Ok(());
+                }
+                let meta_files = Self::find_metadata_files(config, &cache_dir, &packages)?;
+                for meta_file in &meta_files {
+                    fs::remove_file(cache_dir.join(meta_file)).into_diagnostic()?;
+                }
+                if !meta_files.is_empty() {
+                    println!("{}", meta_files.join("\n"));
+                }
+            }
+            CacheCommand::View { package } => {
+                if !cache_dir.exists() {
+                    println!("{{}}");
+                    return Ok(());
+                }
+                Self::reject_path_traversal(&package)?;
+                let registry_prefix = Self::registry_prefix(config)?;
+                // pnpm matches the package name literally as a glob segment.
+                let pattern = format!("{registry_prefix}/{package}.jsonl");
+
+                let glob = wax::Glob::new(&pattern).into_diagnostic()?;
+                let mut meta_file_paths = Vec::new();
+                for entry in glob.walk(&cache_dir).filter_map(std::result::Result::ok) {
+                    if !entry.file_type().is_file() {
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                    if let Some(path_str) =
+                        entry.path().strip_prefix(&cache_dir).ok().and_then(|path| path.to_str())
+                    {
+                        meta_file_paths
+                            .push((path_str.replace('\\', "/"), entry.path().to_path_buf()));
+                    }
+                }
+                meta_file_paths.sort();
+
+                // IndexMap preserves insertion order so the JSON key order is
+                // deterministic (driven by the sorted file paths), matching
+                // pnpm's plain-object output.
+                let mut meta_files_by_path = IndexMap::new();
+
+                // pnpm's cacheView opens a writable StoreIndex that creates
+                // index.db when absent, so a fresh/empty store reports every
+                // version as non-cached rather than erroring. `shared_readonly_in`
+                // returns None when index.db does not exist, which we treat the
+                // same way: every lookup is a miss.
+                let store_index = StoreIndex::shared_readonly_in(&config.store_dir);
+                let store_index =
+                    store_index.as_ref().map(|index| index.lock().expect("store index mutex"));
+
+                for (file_path, full_path) in meta_file_paths {
+                    let Some(meta_object) = load_meta(&full_path) else { continue };
+                    let mtime = fs::metadata(&full_path).and_then(|meta| meta.modified()).ok();
+
+                    let mut cached_versions = Vec::new();
+                    let mut non_cached_versions = Vec::new();
+
+                    for (version, json_frag) in meta_object.versions.fragments() {
+                        let Ok(manifest) = serde_json::from_str::<serde_json::Value>(&json_frag)
+                        else {
+                            continue;
+                        };
+                        let Some(integrity) = manifest
+                            .get("dist")
+                            .and_then(|dist| dist.get("integrity"))
+                            .and_then(|integrity_value| integrity_value.as_str())
+                        else {
+                            continue;
+                        };
+
+                        let key = pacquet_store_dir::store_index_key(
+                            integrity,
+                            &format!("{}@{}", meta_object.name, version),
+                        );
+                        let is_cached = store_index
+                            .as_ref()
+                            .is_some_and(|index| index.contains_key(&key).unwrap_or(false));
+                        if is_cached {
+                            cached_versions.push(version.clone());
+                        } else {
+                            non_cached_versions.push(version.clone());
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                    // The output groups versions per registry. The registry
+                    // directory is the top-level component of the cache-relative
+                    // path; for scoped packages the file lives one level deeper
+                    // (`<registry>/@scope/name.jsonl`), so `parent()` would be
+                    // wrong. Mirrors pnpm's cacheView walk to the top-most dir.
+                    let registry_name = Path::new(&file_path).components().next().map_or_else(
+                        || ".".to_string(),
+                        |component| component.as_os_str().to_string_lossy().into_owned(),
+                    );
+
+                    meta_files_by_path.insert(
+                        registry_name.replace('+', ":"),
+                        json!({
+                            "cachedVersions": cached_versions,
+                            "nonCachedVersions": non_cached_versions,
+                            "cachedAt": mtime.map(|time| {
+                            chrono::DateTime::<chrono::Utc>::from(time)
+                                .to_rfc3339_opts(chrono::SecondsFormat::Millis, true)
+                        }),
+                            "distTags": meta_object.dist_tags,
+                        }),
+                    );
+                }
+
+                println!(
+                    "{}",
+                    serde_json::to_string_pretty(&meta_files_by_path).into_diagnostic()?,
+                );
+            }
+        }
+
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
diff --git a/pacquet/crates/cli/tests/cache.rs b/pacquet/crates/cli/tests/cache.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9238106cf8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pacquet/crates/cli/tests/cache.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+use assert_cmd::prelude::*;
+use command_extra::CommandExtra;
+use pacquet_testing_utils::bin::CommandTempCwd;
+use std::fs;
+
+#[test]
+fn should_list_registries() {
+    let cwd = CommandTempCwd::init().add_mocked_registry();
+
+    let cache_dir = cwd.npmrc_info.cache_dir.join("v11").join("metadata");
+    fs::create_dir_all(cache_dir.join("registry.npmjs.org")).unwrap();
+    fs::create_dir_all(cache_dir.join("registry.yarnpkg.com")).unwrap();
+
+    let output = cwd
+        .pacquet
+        .with_arg("cache")
+        .with_arg("list-registries")
+        .assert()
+        .success()
+        .get_output()
+        .stdout
+        .clone();
+
+    let stdout = String::from_utf8(output).unwrap();
+    assert!(stdout.contains("registry.npmjs.org"));
+    assert!(stdout.contains("registry.yarnpkg.com"));
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn should_list_packages() {
+    let cwd = CommandTempCwd::init().add_mocked_registry();
+
+    let cache_dir = cwd.npmrc_info.cache_dir.join("v11").join("metadata");
+    let url_str = cwd.npmrc_info.mock_instance.url();
+    let registry_name =
+        pacquet_resolving_npm_resolver::mirror::get_registry_name(&url_str).unwrap();
+    fs::create_dir_all(cache_dir.join(&registry_name)).unwrap();
+    fs::write(cache_dir.join(&registry_name).join("is-positive.jsonl"), "{}").unwrap();
+    fs::write(cache_dir.join(&registry_name).join("is-negative.jsonl"), "{}").unwrap();
+
+    let output = cwd
+        .pacquet
+        .with_arg("cache")
+        .with_arg("list")
+        .assert()
+        .success()
+        .get_output()
+        .stdout
+        .clone();
+
+    let stdout = String::from_utf8_lossy(&output);
+    assert!(stdout.contains(&format!("{registry_name}/is-positive.jsonl")));
+    assert!(stdout.contains(&format!("{registry_name}/is-negative.jsonl")));
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn should_list_only_files_not_directories() {
+    let cwd = CommandTempCwd::init().add_mocked_registry();
+
+    let cache_dir = cwd.npmrc_info.cache_dir.join("v11").join("metadata");
+    let url_str = cwd.npmrc_info.mock_instance.url();
+    let registry_name =
+        pacquet_resolving_npm_resolver::mirror::get_registry_name(&url_str).unwrap();
+    fs::create_dir_all(cache_dir.join(&registry_name)).unwrap();
+    fs::write(cache_dir.join(&registry_name).join("is-positive.jsonl"), "{}").unwrap();
+    // A scoped package lives in its own directory, which the glob also matches.
+    // Only the file underneath it, not the directory itself, should be listed.
+    fs::create_dir_all(cache_dir.join(&registry_name).join("@scope")).unwrap();
+    fs::write(cache_dir.join(&registry_name).join("@scope").join("foo.jsonl"), "{}").unwrap();
+
+    let output = cwd
+        .pacquet
+        .with_arg("cache")
+        .with_arg("list")
+        .assert()
+        .success()
+        .get_output()
+        .stdout
+        .clone();
+
+    let stdout = String::from_utf8_lossy(&output);
+    assert!(stdout.contains(&format!("{registry_name}/is-positive.jsonl")));
+    assert!(stdout.contains(&format!("{registry_name}/@scope/foo.jsonl")));
+    let scope_dir = format!("{registry_name}/@scope");
+    assert!(
+        !stdout.lines().any(|line| line == scope_dir),
+        "directory entry {scope_dir:?} should not be listed, got: {stdout}",
+    );
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn should_delete_packages() {
+    let cwd = CommandTempCwd::init().add_mocked_registry();
+
+    let cache_dir = cwd.npmrc_info.cache_dir.join("v11").join("metadata");
+    let url_str = cwd.npmrc_info.mock_instance.url();
+    let registry_name =
+        pacquet_resolving_npm_resolver::mirror::get_registry_name(&url_str).unwrap();
+    fs::create_dir_all(cache_dir.join(&registry_name)).unwrap();
+    fs::write(cache_dir.join(&registry_name).join("is-positive.jsonl"), "{}").unwrap();
+    fs::write(cache_dir.join(&registry_name).join("is-negative.jsonl"), "{}").unwrap();
+
+    let output = cwd
+        .pacquet
+        .with_arg("cache")
+        .with_arg("delete")
+        .with_arg("is-positive")
+        .assert()
+        .success()
+        .get_output()
+        .stdout
+        .clone();
+
+    let stdout = String::from_utf8_lossy(&output);
+    assert!(stdout.contains(&format!("{registry_name}/is-positive.jsonl")));
+    assert!(!cache_dir.join(&registry_name).join("is-positive.jsonl").exists());
+    assert!(cache_dir.join(&registry_name).join("is-negative.jsonl").exists());
+}
diff --git a/pacquet/crates/resolving-npm-resolver/src/lib.rs b/pacquet/crates/resolving-npm-resolver/src/lib.rs
index 12f18cc981..31d66e29df 100644
--- a/pacquet/crates/resolving-npm-resolver/src/lib.rs
+++ b/pacquet/crates/resolving-npm-resolver/src/lib.rs
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ mod fetch_attestation_published_at;
 mod fetch_full_metadata;
 mod fetch_full_metadata_cached;
 mod lookup_context;
-mod mirror;
+pub mod mirror;
 mod named_registry;
 mod named_registry_resolver;
 mod npm_resolver;
diff --git a/pacquet/crates/resolving-npm-resolver/src/mirror.rs b/pacquet/crates/resolving-npm-resolver/src/mirror.rs
index 919a25b718..0abe57b98e 100644
--- a/pacquet/crates/resolving-npm-resolver/src/mirror.rs
+++ b/pacquet/crates/resolving-npm-resolver/src/mirror.rs
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ pub fn get_registry_name(registry: &str) -> Result<String, EncodeRegistryError>
 /// sha256 hex suffix so case-insensitive filesystems (HFS+, NTFS by
 /// default) can't collide it with a lowercase sibling. Mirrors pnpm's
 /// [`encodePkgName`](https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/blob/2a9bd897bf/resolving/npm-resolver/src/pickPackage.ts#L555-L560).
+#[must_use]
 pub fn encode_pkg_name(pkg_name: &str) -> String {
     let lowered = pkg_name.to_lowercase();
     if pkg_name == lowered {
@@ -431,6 +432,7 @@ fn read_mirror_headers(file: &mut File) -> Option<MetaHeaders> {
 /// headers, identical to pnpm's
 /// [`loadMetaHeaders`](https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm/blob/2a9bd897bf/resolving/npm-resolver/src/pickPackage.ts#L627-L644)
 /// catch-and-return-null.
+#[must_use]
 pub fn load_meta_headers(pkg_mirror: &Path) -> Option<MetaHeaders> {
     let mut file = File::open(pkg_mirror).ok()?;
     read_mirror_headers(&mut file)
@@ -444,6 +446,7 @@ pub fn load_meta_headers(pkg_mirror: &Path) -> Option<MetaHeaders> {
 /// catches any error from `readFile` / `JSON.parse` and returns
 /// `null`; we match that contract because the caller's response to
 /// "couldn't read" is the same as "no cache".
+#[must_use]
 pub fn load_meta(pkg_mirror: &Path) -> Option<Package> {
     let contents = fs::read(pkg_mirror).ok()?;
     let newline = contents.iter().position(|&byte| byte == b'\n')?;