Config files layer: discovered up to the repo root, merged per key by wmadden-electric · Pull Request #233 · prisma/prisma-cli

wmadden-electric · 2026-08-25T11:39:26Z

The decision

A prisma.config.ts no longer has to live in the directory you run the CLI from. The CLI now discovers every config file from the current directory up to the repository root and merges them, with the most local value winning — the same layering model as ESLint or tsconfig. This is what it looks like in the layout we expect to be the common case:

my-app/
├── .git/
├── prisma.config.ts          # repo root: platform + policy settings
└── packages/
    └── db/
        └── prisma.config.ts  # ORM settings live with the schema

// my-app/prisma.config.ts
export default definePrismaConfig({
  skills: { check: false },
});

// my-app/packages/db/prisma.config.ts
export default definePrismaConfig({
  orm: { migrations: "./migrations" },
});

Running any command from packages/db now sees both files: the orm section from the local config, skills.check: false inherited from the root. Running prisma deploy from the repo root works too, because root-scoped settings live at the root. Before this PR, the CLI read exactly one file — ./prisma.config.ts in cwd — so this layout was impossible: from packages/db the root config was invisible, and from the root the ORM config was.

How discovery works

Starting from cwd (or from the --config <file> directory, when the flag is given — the named file becomes the nearest layer), the loader collects every prisma.config.ts walking upward.
The walk stops at the repository boundary — the first directory containing .git. Config files are executed TypeScript, so nothing outside your repository runs without explicit consent. No .git anywhere above means cwd only.
A file can opt out or redirect with a new reserved top-level key: parent: false means "I am the root, stop here"; parent: "../shared/prisma.config.ts" names the next file explicitly (resolved relative to the declaring file, cycle-checked, and allowed to cross the .git boundary — writing the path is the consent, which is how git submodules share a root config).
Every file on the chain gets the existing marker/version checks individually, and a broken file anywhere fails the command with an error naming that file — a typo'd key in a nested config is never silently ignored just because the values you needed came from elsewhere.

How merging works

Sections merge per key, nearest file wins. In the example above, if packages/db also wrote skills: { agents: ["claude"] }, the resolved skills section would be { check: false, agents: ["claude"] } — each key from the file that wrote it. Below a section's top level, values replace atomically. Section owners can customize this: defineConfigSection accepts an optional merge(parent, child) (the shipped orm/composer sections keep working without one).

Two consequences worth knowing when you read the code:

Every resolved value knows which file it came from. Validation errors name the file to fix, and relative paths resolve against the file that declared them — the root's migrations: "./migrations" means the root's directory from anywhere in the repo, via the new resolveSectionPath helper.
Handlers get the resolved chain on ctx.configFiles — the same single load the needs check performed, so --config and host-supplied loaders govern everything downstream, and no command loads config twice.

What else rides along

One resolver in the product. The skills staleness notice and post-login tip used a hand-rolled cwd-only reader; they now go through the engine resolver, so a root skills: { check: false } reaches subdirectories there too. The no-config fast path stays stat-only.
prisma init in a subdirectory scaffolds config only. Below a governing config it skips the skills sync, postinstall hook, and prisma devDependency — those belong to the repo root — saying so in plain language and as reason: "governing-config" in the JSON envelope. --postinstall / --skills opt back in. Root init is unchanged.
The deprecated defineConfig alias is removed before launch (supersedes Remove the deprecated defineConfig alias before launch #228; definePrismaConfig is the name).
Engine goes to 0.3.0. The public surface changed (LoadedConfig is now a chain, ConfigSection.merge, ctx.configFiles, the removed alias), and 0.2.3 published while this branch was in flight. The conformance transition exceptions reopen for the 0.3.0 transition: composer and orm-toolchain still peer 0.2.3 until they release against 0.3.0, and the follow-up pin-bump PR removes the exceptions — same procedure as the 0.2.3 transition (Unbreak the publish run: transition exceptions name the pins the families actually have #227).
The init e2e's config-removal rerun workaround came out; its cause (the unrealpath'd c12 import) was fixed in engine 0.2.2.

Alternatives considered

Topmost file wins (with root: true): rejected — the root config would shadow a db package's ORM settings entirely. An earlier implementation of this shipped briefly and was reverted.
Nearest file wins, whole file: rejected — root-scoped commands like deploy would break when run from inside a package.
Nearest file wins, per section: rejected in favor of per-key — partial overrides (root sets skills.check, package sets skills.agents) are the point of layering.
A userland merge(parentConfig, {...}) helper instead of loader-driven resolution: rejected — it moves ordering, caching, error attribution, and the repo-boundary rule into user code.
--config reads only the named file: rejected — the named file anchors the normal chain instead, so explicit configs still inherit.

The full contract and dispatch history live in .drive/projects/prisma-cli-v8/specs/config-file-resolution.md and plans/config-file-resolution.md.

Verified at the tip: typecheck, full sequential test run (engine 860, cli 972), lint, conformance (0 failing, 6 allowed transition exceptions), init e2e 5/5. All 14 CI checks green on both Ubuntu and Windows.

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New Features
- Configuration files are discovered through the project hierarchy and merged per setting, with local values taking precedence.
- Added controls for configuration inheritance and file-relative path resolution.
- Nested init commands avoid duplicating setup managed by an ancestor configuration, with opt-in overrides and JSON reasons.
- Skills checks and stale notices honor merged project configuration.
Bug Fixes
- Improved diagnostics for missing, invalid, or cyclic configuration links.
- Fixed configuration handling for subdirectories, symlinks, and explicit config paths.
- Repeated configuration loads are now efficiently reused.

Walkthrough

The CLI engine now discovers configuration files across repository ancestors and explicit parent links. It merges sections per top-level key, tracks provenance, and validates the resolved result. The loaded configuration contract now exposes a nearest-first file chain. CLI skills checks and init use this resolver. Subdirectory init skips ancestor-controlled steps unless explicitly enabled. Tests cover discovery, merging, diagnostics, context propagation, skills behavior, and init outcomes.

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… ledger The design discussion in specs/config-file-resolution.md becomes the decided slice contract (operator rulings 2026-08-25): per-key merging with section-owned merge semantics, automatic ancestor discovery with a reserved parent: false | "path" key superseding root: true, the repository-boundary search stop, post-merge validation with per-file provenance, declaring-file-relative paths, --config anchoring the chain at the named file, and no shadowing notices. The condensed decision history and the prior round's edge-case catalogue stay in the spec as requirements. plans/config-file-resolution.md decomposes it into five dispatches (chain discovery; per-key merge with provenance; resolver consolidation; subdirectory init; docs and verification) with the engine-version hazard called out at the plan level. The ledger closes the stale pathe entry (the realpath fix shipped with engine 0.2.2) and records the two rulings that close or supersede standing observations: the readProjectSkillsConfig consolidation and subdirectory init skipping skills, postinstall, and the devDependency. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

@deprecated

The engine's deprecated defineConfig re-export of definePrismaConfig was the only @deprecated surface in the repo. Nothing imports it: the prisma/config entry point re-exports definePrismaConfig by name, and the composer and ORM families' same-named helpers are their own. It rides the in-flight, unpublished engine 0.2.3, so no extra release chain. Doc prose that still said defineConfig now names definePrismaConfig. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

The config-file-resolution slice reshapes LoadedConfig and extends ConfigSection, and the folded-in defineConfig alias removal already dropped an export — breaking surface changes, so the engine takes a minor bump per ADR 0004. 0.2.3 published out from under the branch, so the bump is mandatory for the engine-version check. The conformance transition exceptions move to the new triple (families still peer 0.2.2 until they release against 0.3.0), per the #227 pattern. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

Discovery walks from the anchor directory (cwd, or the --config file's directory) upward to the first directory containing .git, collecting every prisma.config.ts on the way; no .git above means the anchor directory only, so nothing outside the repository is ever executed implicitly. A file ends collection with parent: false or names its next link with parent: "path" (resolved against the declaring file, cycle-checked, allowed to cross the repository boundary — naming it is the consent). 'parent' joins the engine-reserved top-level keys: the loader strips it like the $prismaConfig marker, and declaring a section by that name fails construction. LoadedConfig is now a chain shape — per-file {path, sections} entries nearest-first plus file-level diagnostics. Every file on the chain gets the existing marker/version/unreadable classification, each failure naming its file, and a broken file anywhere fails resolution. The engine's unknown-key check runs per file over the chain; until per-key merging lands, the nearest file declaring a command's section supplies it whole, so one file in cwd behaves exactly as before. The skills reader keeps its cwd-only behavior through a nearest-file adapter for now. Loader tests pin their chains — a .git marker over the in-repo fixtures, temp trees outside the repository for the chain scenarios, parent: false in the cli package's named fixtures — so a config file appearing in this checkout's own directories can never leak into a test's ancestor walk. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

A --config path is resolved through symlinks like the automatic anchor, so a symlinked file yields the same chain and real-path diagnostics as discovery. Discovery skips a directory named prisma.config.ts, matching the isFile check explicit parent links already had. The invalid-parent diagnostic names the offending value instead of its type. The fixture pinning no longer writes a .git marker into the repository — a killed run left it behind and broke git with 'invalid gitfile format'. Every marked fixture now declares parent: false, broken fixtures already fail resolution at themselves, and the absence tests moved to temp directories outside the repository. The skills-reader comment now says what actually happens: ancestors are evaluated, the nearest file supplies the answer. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

Each needed section now resolves over the loaded chain nearest-first: the engine default merges per key at the section's top level and replaces below (arrays and non-plain objects replace whole), and a section can supply its own merge(parent, child). A section or key written as undefined contributes nothing, so it cannot silently shadow an ancestor's real value. Merging builds fresh objects with fromEntries, so frozen exports are never mutated and __proto__ hygiene carries over. Every resolved value carries provenance: which files declared the section and which file wrote each top-level key. Invalid-section errors now name the declaring file (the nearest one, listing the chain, when several merged), and a required section reports itself missing only when no file on the chain declares it. resolveSectionPath lets sections resolve relative paths against the file that declared them, never cwd. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

…results Each contributor's section value is now read exactly once, inside a guard: a throwing property getter settles as a config error naming the file instead of an internal bug, and provenance is computed from the snapshot rather than re-reading values per key. resolveSectionOverChain returns an ok/error result to carry that classification. resolveSectionPath now throws on a key the resolved section does not carry at its top level — a silent nearest-file fallback could resolve a nested path against the wrong directory. Provenance is keyed per section name, so one object reused by two sections cannot collide, and sectionProvenance/resolveSectionPath take the section name. A single-file section passes through the same per-key normalization as a merged one, so a key written undefined is absent either way, and every plain-object result is a fresh, frozen object. The merged-section error copy counts its parents, and the merged object's __proto__ hygiene is pinned by a test. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

readProjectSkillsConfig now loads the discovered config chain and resolves the skills section per key with resolveSectionOverChain, so the staleness notice, the post-login tip, and the skills commands agree on the governing config from any subdirectory. The hand-rolled existsSync check and the nearest-file-only adapter are gone; the no-config fast path survives because chain discovery is stat-only until a file exists. Out-of-handler callers keep their tolerant contract: a missing, broken, or invalid config still reads as null. The validator keeps its getter guard — the resolver snapshots only plain objects, and a test proves a class-instance section still needs it. readSkillsConfig, whose only caller was the deleted adapter, is removed. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

readProjectSkillsConfig now takes the loader instead of a cwd: the staleness notice receives Runtime.loadConfig through SkillsCheckRuntime, so a host-supplied loader governs it, and the post-login tip binds the disk loader with projectConfigLoader, which carries the CLI version the direct import used to drop. Only severity-error diagnostics disqualify a chain, so a future loader warning cannot turn a good config into no config. The invalid-merge test now derives the invalidity from an actual merge, and a new skills-check test proves end to end that a repository root's skills.check reaches a nested directory. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

…round comes out Run in a directory whose discovered config chain reaches a parent directory, prisma init now writes only the prisma.config.ts scaffold: the postinstall hook, the prisma dev dependency, and the skills sync belong at the repository root, and each reports itself skipped with that reason. Passing --postinstall restores the manifest edit and --skills restores the sync; init at a repository root is unchanged. The init e2e rerun no longer deletes the scaffold first: the engine imports c12 via its realpath, so the built binary evaluates configs in this repository's development layout, and the rerun now covers the config-present path directly. A subdirectory e2e case rides the same harness. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

… why a step was skipped The engine now hands every handler the chain its needs check resolved: ctx.configFiles carries the LoadedConfigFile list behind ctx.config, empty for commands with no config need. Init's ancestor detection reads it instead of doing a second disk load, so every config file is evaluated once per run, --config anchors the decision exactly as it anchored ctx.config, and a host-supplied loader governs init too. The test harness now seeds its stub config file at the run's cwd, honoring the contract that LoadedConfigFile.path is absolute. The skipped-for-a-governing-config outcome is now visible to machine readers: the postinstall and skills reports carry reason: "governing-config" in the JSON envelope, distinct from a flag-driven skip. The human copy no longer claims the governing config is in a parent directory, which an explicit parent path can make false. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

The engine requirements doc's R10 now describes what ships: chain discovery from the anchor upward to the repository boundary, the reserved parent key, --config anchoring the chain at the named file, per-key merging with the most-local value winning, provenance, declaring-file-relative paths, the two-config monorepo layout, and the three parent diagnostics. The output conventions describe the staleness notice reading the discovered chain rather than one file in cwd, and init's JSON reason field for governing-config skips; the command principles describe subdirectory init scaffolding only, with --postinstall and --skills opting back in. Records: the spec's status line carries the landed date, the pathe ledger entry now says the init e2e rerun workaround is out, and a new deferred entry records that the post-login skills tip does not see --config. Review nits: the section-invalid expectation builds its path with resolve and CONFIG_FILE_NAME instead of the hardcoded POSIX form; the empty-chain init case is back as a harness-level test; needs.ts freezes the loaded chain before handing it to handlers. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

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…s repo The family dists resolve root-declared section paths against cwd until they adopt declaring-file resolution (briefs written for both repos), and a marker-less Prisma 7 root config blocks config-needing commands repo-wide under the ratified no-skipping rule — softening that needs an operator ruling. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

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In @.drive/projects/prisma-cli-v8/deferred.md:
- Line 524: Resolve the operator decision for marker-less ancestor configs
before merging, or implement a migration-safe escape path that lets Prisma 7
repositories run the migration entry point such as prisma init from child
directories. Preserve fatal handling for the current directory and the ratified
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handlers, alongside ctx.config, ctx.configFiles, and ctx.cwd. Update handlers to
resolve relative family paths from the declaring file rather than ctx.cwd, and
coordinate composer-cli and orm-toolchain adoption before shipping the chain
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In @.drive/projects/prisma-cli-v8/specs/config-file-resolution.md:
- Around line 33-35: Update resolveAgentSetupTipCommand to receive and propagate
the parsed --config path through the engine resolver, matching the
staleness-check behavior instead of using a cwd-bound loader. Add a regression
test covering a named config path in the post-login tip. Apply this guidance to
.drive/projects/prisma-cli-v8/specs/config-file-resolution.md lines 33-35 and
.drive/projects/prisma-cli-v8/plans/config-file-resolution.md lines 21-27.

In `@packages/cli-engine/src/config-loader.ts`:
- Around line 6-17: The documentation in
packages/cli-engine/src/config-loader.ts lines 6-17 and
packages/cli-engine/src/runtime.ts lines 73-80 must consistently describe
--config discovery: scan the anchor directory only without --config; with
--config, treat the named file as the first chain link and resume discovery
strictly above its directory. Update both documentation sites; no behavior
change is required.

In `@packages/cli-engine/tests/config.test.ts`:
- Around line 838-845: Extract the repeated temporary empty-directory setup,
assertion, and cleanup into a shared helper such as withEmptyDirectory. Update
both the existing test near the earlier empty-directory case and this loadConfig
test to call that helper, preserving the isolated-directory cleanup guarantee
and assertions.

In `@packages/cli/scripts/conformance.ts`:
- Around line 112-136: Update the exception handling around applyExceptions and
exitCodeFor so these transition pins cannot suppress installed-tree
multiple-copy engine conflicts or produce a successful exit while such findings
remain. Remove the composer-cli and orm-toolchain exceptions only once clean
sandboxes resolve to one engine copy and their manifests peer 0.3.0, or enforce
those release conditions before allowing the exceptions.

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ConfigSection.validate gains a second parameter, the SectionProvenance that resolveSectionOverChain produced, so a validator can resolve its path-valued keys through resolveSectionPath against the declaring file and return absolute paths. One-argument validators remain assignable and keep working. The engine's needs check and the skills config reader pass the provenance; the conformance package's structural section type follows. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

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…fig discovery - CommandContext exposes configPath (the file --config named), and the post-login skills tip passes it to readProjectSkillsConfig, so a login run with --config reads the chain the rest of the run read. Regression test added. - The conformance validator-no-throw check supplies the provenance the engine would: plain-object hostile inputs get a declaring file per top-level key, so a validator that resolves paths through resolveSectionPath no longer reports a false failure. - config-loader.ts and runtime.ts doc comments now state that with --config the named file is the first chain link and discovery resumes strictly above its directory. - The duplicated isolated-empty-directory test body is one helper. - deferred.md records the operator ruling: a marker-less Prisma 7 ancestor config stays chain-fatal; no warn-and-ignore softening. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

Main released engine 0.3.0 today carrying the SDK-peer change (#236), with composer-cli 0.15.0 and orm-toolchain 8.0.0-rc.8 peering it and the conformance exceptions emptied (#239). This branch's engine work — the config chain and the defineConfig alias removal — therefore ships as 0.4.0. The conformance transition exceptions return, naming the pins the transition actually has: families peer 0.3.0, shell 0.4.0. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

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A hostile proxy whose getPrototypeOf trap throws must yield empty provenance, not a false validator-threw finding. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

Main gained the error-reference completeness check while this branch added CLI.CONFIG_PARENT_CYCLE, CLI.CONFIG_PARENT_INVALID and CLI.CONFIG_PARENT_NOT_FOUND; the merge left them unregistered. Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

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Resolve the composer section's configPath against the file that declared it prisma/composer#262

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