diff --git a/workspaces/arborist/lib/arborist/build-ideal-tree.js b/workspaces/arborist/lib/arborist/build-ideal-tree.js
index a65cff09724ab..ac3062928ebd8 100644
--- a/workspaces/arborist/lib/arborist/build-ideal-tree.js
+++ b/workspaces/arborist/lib/arborist/build-ideal-tree.js
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ const realpath = require('../../lib/realpath.js')
 const { resolve, dirname } = require('path')
 const treeCheck = require('../tree-check.js')
 const { readdirScoped } = require('@npmcli/fs')
-const { lstat, readlink } = require('node:fs/promises')
+const { lstat, readlink } = require('fs/promises')
 const { depth } = require('treeverse')
 const { log, time } = require('proc-log')
 const { redact } = require('@npmcli/redact')
diff --git a/workspaces/arborist/lib/arborist/reify.js b/workspaces/arborist/lib/arborist/reify.js
index c067d5ec3e3f9..42bbdfef8eb42 100644
--- a/workspaces/arborist/lib/arborist/reify.js
+++ b/workspaces/arborist/lib/arborist/reify.js
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ const {
   mkdir,
   rm,
   symlink,
-} = require('node:fs/promises')
+} = require('fs/promises')
 const { moveFile } = require('@npmcli/fs')
 const PackageJson = require('@npmcli/package-json')
 const packageContents = require('@npmcli/installed-package-contents')
diff --git a/workspaces/arborist/lib/realpath.js b/workspaces/arborist/lib/realpath.js
index 6574387cb35ee..8dc20ab63d836 100644
--- a/workspaces/arborist/lib/realpath.js
+++ b/workspaces/arborist/lib/realpath.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 // built-in fs.realpath, because we only care about symbolic links,
 // so we can handle many fewer edge cases.
 
-const { lstat, readlink } = require('node:fs/promises')
+const { lstat, readlink } = require('fs/promises')
 const { resolve, basename, dirname } = require('path')
 
 const realpathCached = (path, rpcache, stcache, depth) => {
diff --git a/workspaces/arborist/lib/shrinkwrap.js b/workspaces/arborist/lib/shrinkwrap.js
index 451f7b1fda317..026abc55ccba1 100644
--- a/workspaces/arborist/lib/shrinkwrap.js
+++ b/workspaces/arborist/lib/shrinkwrap.js
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ const {
   rm,
   stat,
   writeFile,
-} = require('node:fs/promises')
+} = require('fs/promises')
 
 const { resolve, basename, relative } = require('path')
 const specFromLock = require('./spec-from-lock.js')
diff --git a/workspaces/arborist/scripts/benchmark.js b/workspaces/arborist/scripts/benchmark.js
index 39dbfe253e163..21f5432de76f6 100644
--- a/workspaces/arborist/scripts/benchmark.js
+++ b/workspaces/arborist/scripts/benchmark.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ process.env.ARBORIST_DEBUG = '0'
 
 const { Suite } = require('benchmark')
 const { relative, resolve } = require('path')
-const { mkdir, rm } = require('node:fs/promises')
+const { mkdir, rm } = require('fs/promises')
 const { execSync } = require('child_process')
 const { linkSync, writeFileSync, readdirSync } = require('fs')
 const registryServer = require('../test/fixtures/server.js')
diff --git a/workspaces/arborist/scripts/benchmark/load-actual.js b/workspaces/arborist/scripts/benchmark/load-actual.js
index 036df495bc172..ddc8145bcb60d 100644
--- a/workspaces/arborist/scripts/benchmark/load-actual.js
+++ b/workspaces/arborist/scripts/benchmark/load-actual.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 const Arborist = require('../..')
 const { resolve, basename } = require('path')
 const { writeFileSync } = require('fs')
-const { mkdir, rm } = require('node:fs/promises')
+const { mkdir, rm } = require('fs/promises')
 
 const dir = resolve(__dirname, basename(__filename, '.js'))
 
diff --git a/workspaces/arborist/scripts/benchmark/reify.js b/workspaces/arborist/scripts/benchmark/reify.js
index 45ebb256c0f8f..797a5cb803682 100644
--- a/workspaces/arborist/scripts/benchmark/reify.js
+++ b/workspaces/arborist/scripts/benchmark/reify.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 const Arborist = require('../..')
 const { resolve, basename } = require('path')
 const { writeFileSync, rmSync } = require('fs')
-const { mkdir } = require('node:fs/promises')
+const { mkdir } = require('fs/promises')
 const dir = resolve(__dirname, basename(__filename, '.js'))
 
 // these are not arbitrary, the empty/full and no-* bits matter
diff --git a/workspaces/arborist/test/arborist/pruner.js b/workspaces/arborist/test/arborist/pruner.js
index 9e65c26bdca3f..9be29442acdea 100644
--- a/workspaces/arborist/test/arborist/pruner.js
+++ b/workspaces/arborist/test/arborist/pruner.js
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ t.test('prune with lockfile omit dev', async t => {
 })
 
 t.test('prune omit dev with bins', async t => {
-  const { readdir } = require('node:fs/promises')
+  const { readdir } = require('fs/promises')
   const { statSync, lstatSync } = require('fs')
   const path = fixture(t, 'prune-dev-bins')
 
diff --git a/workspaces/arborist/test/arborist/reify.js b/workspaces/arborist/test/arborist/reify.js
index 7af5e772c8ba9..d0615add3540a 100644
--- a/workspaces/arborist/test/arborist/reify.js
+++ b/workspaces/arborist/test/arborist/reify.js
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ const runScript = require('@npmcli/run-script')
 const localeCompare = require('@isaacs/string-locale-compare')('en')
 const tnock = require('../fixtures/tnock')
 const fs = require('fs')
-const fsp = require('node:fs/promises')
+const fsp = require('fs/promises')
 const npmFs = require('@npmcli/fs')
 
 let failRm = false
@@ -71,10 +71,10 @@ const fspMock = {
   },
 }
 // need this to be injected so that it doesn't pull from main cache
-const { moveFile } = t.mock('@npmcli/fs', { 'node:fs/promises': fspMock })
+const { moveFile } = t.mock('@npmcli/fs', { 'fs/promises': fspMock })
 const mocks = {
   fs: fsMock,
-  'node:fs/promises': fspMock,
+  'fs/promises': fspMock,
   '@npmcli/fs': { ...npmFs, moveFile },
 }
 
diff --git a/workspaces/arborist/test/isolated-mode.js b/workspaces/arborist/test/isolated-mode.js
index 26234947642e2..1e376b62b871f 100644
--- a/workspaces/arborist/test/isolated-mode.js
+++ b/workspaces/arborist/test/isolated-mode.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 const tap = require('tap')
 const fs = require('fs')
-const { readFile } = require('node:fs/promises')
+const { readFile } = require('fs/promises')
 const path = require('path')
 const os = require('os')