Error running npm install in github-action/: "ENOTDIR: not a directory, open '/workspaces/devcontainer-build-run/github-action/node_modules/devcontainer-build-run-common/npm-shrinkwrap.json'"

I am encountering an error when running npm install in the directory github-action, in the Dev Container:

vscode ➜ /workspaces/devcontainer-build-run (feat/support-giving-extended-privileges-to-container ✗) $ cd github-action/
vscode ➜ /workspaces/devcontainer-build-run/github-action (feat/support-giving-extended-privileges-to-container ✗) $ ls
dist jest.config.js lib Makefile node_modules package.json package-lock.json src tsconfig.json
vscode ➜ /workspaces/devcontainer-build-run/github-action (feat/support-giving-extended-privileges-to-container ✗) $ npm install
npm ERR! code ENOTDIR
npm ERR! syscall open
npm ERR! path /workspaces/devcontainer-build-run/github-action/node_modules/devcontainer-build-run-common/npm-shrinkwrap.json
npm ERR! errno -20
npm ERR! ENOTDIR: not a directory, open '/workspaces/devcontainer-build-run/github-action/node_modules/devcontainer-build-run-common/npm-shrinkwrap.json'

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/vscode/.npm/_logs/2021-08-29T18_04_58_314Z-debug.log

vscode ➜ /workspaces/devcontainer-build-run/github-action (feat/support-giving-extended-privileges-to-container ✗) $ vi /home/vscode/.npm/_logs/2021-08-29T18_04_58_314Z-debug.log

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [ '/usr/bin/node', '/usr/bin/npm', 'install' ]
2 info using npm@6.14.14
3 info using node@v12.22.5
4 verbose npm-session 707288085a93a29d
5 silly install runPreinstallTopLevelLifecycles
6 silly preinstall devcontainer-build-run@0.0.0
7 info lifecycle devcontainer-build-run@0.0.0~preinstall: devcontainer-build-run@0.0.0
8 silly install loadCurrentTree
9 silly install readLocalPackageData
10 timing stage:loadCurrentTree Completed in 1740ms
11 silly install loadIdealTree
12 silly install cloneCurrentTreeToIdealTree
13 timing stage:loadIdealTree:cloneCurrentTree Completed in 14ms
14 silly install loadShrinkwrap
15 timing stage:loadIdealTree:loadShrinkwrap Completed in 629ms
16 silly install loadAllDepsIntoIdealTree
17 timing stage:rollbackFailedOptional Completed in 0ms
18 timing stage:runTopLevelLifecycles Completed in 2409ms
19 silly saveTree devcontainer-build-run@0.0.0
19 silly saveTree ├── @actions/core@1.4.0
...
19 silly saveTree ├─┬ ts-jest@26.5.6
19 silly saveTree │ ├── bs-logger@0.2.6
19 silly saveTree │ ├── make-error@1.3.6
19 silly saveTree │ ├── mkdirp@1.0.4
19 silly saveTree │ ├── semver@7.3.5
19 silly saveTree │ └── yargs-parser@20.2.7
19 silly saveTree └── typescript@4.3.2
20 verbose stack Error: ENOTDIR: not a directory, open '/workspaces/devcontainer-build-run/github-action/node_modules/devcontainer-build-run-common/npm-shrinkwrap.json'
21 verbose cwd /workspaces/devcontainer-build-run/github-action
22 verbose Linux 5.4.72-microsoft-standard-WSL2
23 verbose argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install"
24 verbose node v12.22.5
25 verbose npm v6.14.14
26 error code ENOTDIR
27 error syscall open
28 error path /workspaces/devcontainer-build-run/github-action/node_modules/devcontainer-build-run-common/npm-shrinkwrap.json
29 error errno -20
30 error ENOTDIR: not a directory, open '/workspaces/devcontainer-build-run/github-action/node_modules/devcontainer-build-run-common/npm-shrinkwrap.json'
31 verbose exit [ -20, true ]