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exp/
  sub/
    prisma.config.ts
    contract.prisma
// exp/sub/prisma.config.ts, unchanged by this PR
import { definePrismaConfig } from '@prisma/cli-engine';
import { defineConfig as ormConfig } from '@prisma/orm-postgres/config';

export default definePrismaConfig({
  orm: ormConfig({
    contract: './contract.prisma',
    migrations: { dir: './migrations' },
  }),
});
Run from Command Before After
exp/sub prisma contract emit --config ./prisma.config.ts writes exp/sub/contract.json same
exp prisma contract emit --config ./sub/prisma.config.ts CONTRACT.SOURCE_LOAD_FAILED: looks for exp/contract.prisma writes exp/sub/contract.json

The same file meant different things depending on where the command ran.

The decision

A relative path inside prisma.config.ts is relative to that file. The file resolves the path itself while it is evaluated: the loader publishes the file's directory through an AsyncLocalStorage kept on globalThis under Symbol.for('prisma.config.baseDir'), and ormConfig reads it as it runs, resolves its paths, and records the directory on the section as baseDir. Config files are written exactly as before. The full reasoning, the layering constraint, and the alternatives are in ADR 253, which this PR adds.

Why it broke: two binaries, two loaders

The ORM's own prisma bin loads the config with the ORM's loader, which resolved paths against the config file's directory after loading. The unified prisma CLI mounts the ORM's commands and loads the config with the engine's loader, which hands the orm section over exactly as written. To cover that case, every ORM command was wrapped by code that resolved the section's paths before the handler ran, and the only directory it could see was the working directory.

How it works now

ormConfig resolves its own paths. defineConfig in @internal/config reads baseDir() and, when a loader has published it, resolves the contract source inputs, contract.output and migrations.dir against it and records it as baseDir. That is the only place the ORM's path fields are enumerated. Evaluated outside a loader, the paths stay as written and no baseDir is recorded.

Loaders publish the directory. @internal/config-loader wraps its c12 evaluation in its own withBaseDir(configDir, ...), which creates the shared store on first use; the engine has the same function over the same store. The store is an AsyncLocalStorage, not a plain value, so evaluations that overlap in one process, such as the language server loading several projects, each see their own directory. The helper side, baseDir() in @internal/config, imports nothing and only reads the store if a loader published one, so defineConfig runs under any runtime, with or without node:async_hooks.

Validation refuses anything unresolved. The shared collectConfigIssues now requires baseDir, when present, to be an absolute path, and requires every path field (contract.source.inputs, contract.output, migrations.dir) to be absolute, so a baseDir written by hand into a plain object cannot smuggle relative paths through. The CLI's section validator additionally refuses a section with no baseDir at all, which catches a plain-object section and a section evaluated by an engine that predates the store. There is no fallback to the working directory in any of these cases.

Commands read baseDir and absolute paths. The wrapper that resolved paths at the command boundary is gone. The migration path helpers take only the config. The control API operations that located the project through a configPath (to find the package.json whose dependencies decide emitted import specifiers) now take projectDir, and the ORM commands pass baseDir. That closes a second occurrence of the bug: migration plan --config sub/prisma.config.ts from the parent used to walk up from the parent and read the wrong manifest.

Defaults stay out of the section. The migrations directory defaults to migrations under baseDir, supplied by the readers rather than written into the section by ormConfig, so under layering a file that omits it never shadows a file that authored it.

Tests

  • @internal/config: baseDir() is undefined with no store and reads one published under the key by any loader; defineConfig resolves every path against the published directory and, outside a loader, leaves paths as written with no baseDir; validation reports a relative input, output or migrations dir, and a baseDir that is not an absolute string, against the sections it affects.
  • @internal/config-loader: withBaseDir publishes, nests, restores, keeps two overlapping evaluations apart, and clears on throw; a config file that reads the store as it runs sees its own directory, for a discovered file and for a --config file in another directory; the loaded config records baseDir.
  • @internal/cli: the section validator refuses a section without baseDir, a relative path even when baseDir is present, and a hand-written relative baseDir, reporting structural problems first. contract emit and migration plan reached through --config sub/prisma.config.ts from the parent read and write under sub/; the plan test exercises the manifest walk from baseDir. The ORM command tests seed the harness with the section as a loader now hands it over, resolved against the run's directory, through one shared helper.

@internal/cli: 116 files, 1485 tests. Repo build, typecheck and lint:deps pass.

Engine side and release order

The ORM's bin and loader are correct with this PR alone. The unified CLI becomes correct when the engine's loader publishes the store, which is prisma/prisma-cli#274 (rebased on prisma/prisma-cli#233, whose per-file chain discovery is exactly what the ADR needs for layering).

Release order matters. The validator refuses a section without baseDir, so the @prisma/orm-toolchain release that carries this change must not be mounted by a prisma shell whose engine does not yet publish the store, or every ORM command fails for every unified-CLI user. Engine 0.5.0 ships first; the toolchain release follows and moves its engine peer in the same release. This is recorded in ADR 253's consequences.

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  • New Features

    • Relative paths in configuration files now resolve from the config file’s directory, including contract sources, contract output, and migration directories.
    • Migration, contract, and database commands consistently use the resolved project directory, regardless of the current working directory.
    • Configuration paths are normalized and validated as absolute paths before use.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of configurations loaded from nested directories and concurrent evaluations.
  • Documentation

    • Updated CLI guidance and architecture documentation to clarify path-resolution behavior.

…ig file, not cwd

Under the unified `prisma` CLI, `contract emit --config ./sub/prisma.config.ts`
run from the parent directory failed with CONTRACT.SOURCE_LOAD_FAILED: the
command wrapper finalized the loaded config against the working directory,
so `./contract.prisma` inside `sub/prisma.config.ts` was looked for in the
parent. The same file meant different things depending on where the command
ran, and the ORM's own loader, Composer, and the migrations.dir docs all
anchor on the config file instead.

The engine now hands every command `ctx.configFile`, the absolute path of
the file it loaded (prisma/prisma-cli#274). The wrapper anchors on that
file's directory and falls back to cwd only when no file was loaded. The
migration and db commands had the same defect a second time in
projectConfigPathFor, which named `<cwd>/prisma.config.ts` for the project
manifest walk; it now names the loaded file.

Depends on a @prisma/cli-engine release carrying ctx.configFile and the
matching version bump here.

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Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
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The config system now resolves relative paths against the evaluated config file directory. It records this directory as baseDir, validates absolute paths, removes deferred resolver markers, and updates config-loader, ORM command, contract-emission, public API, documentation, and test integrations.

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Config-relative path resolution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Config resolution contract
packages/1-framework/1-core/config/*, docs/architecture docs/adrs/*, docs/CLI Style Guide.md, packages/9-public/@prisma/orm-framework/package.json
Config evaluation now records baseDir. Relative contract and migration paths resolve against that directory. The former resolver-marker API and rootDir field are removed.
Config loader integration
packages/1-framework/3-tooling/config-loader/*
The loader publishes the config directory during evaluation, resolves paths before applying defaults, and removes the former finalization module.
ORM path consumers and API contracts
packages/1-framework/3-tooling/cli/src/*, packages/1-framework/3-tooling/vite-plugin-contract-emit/src/*, test/integration/*
ORM path helpers and command APIs now use resolved config paths and projectDir instead of raw config paths or invocation cwd.
Validation and regression coverage
packages/1-framework/1-core/config/test/*, packages/1-framework/3-tooling/cli/test/*, packages/1-framework/3-tooling/config-loader/test/*, packages/1-framework/3-tooling/vite-plugin-contract-emit/test/*
Tests cover scoped base-directory state, path resolution, validation, updated API inputs, contract emission, and migration commands.

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  participant ConfigLoader
  participant Config
  participant ORMCommand
  CLI->>ConfigLoader: load config file
  ConfigLoader->>Config: evaluate with config directory
  Config-->>ConfigLoader: return resolved paths and baseDir
  ConfigLoader-->>ORMCommand: provide loaded ORM config
  ORMCommand->>ORMCommand: derive project and migration paths
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@wmadden-electric wmadden-electric changed the title fix(cli): relative paths in prisma.config.ts resolve against the config file, not the working directory fix(cli): relative paths in prisma.config.ts are relative to the config file, whichever directory the command runs from Sep 21, 2026
…ile that wrote them (ADR 253)

Under the unified prisma CLI, contract emit --config ./sub/prisma.config.ts
run from the parent failed with CONTRACT.SOURCE_LOAD_FAILED: the command
wrapper resolved the loaded section against the working directory. The
engine loader hands the orm section over as written, and nothing told the
ORM which file wrote it.

ADR 253: a relative path in the file is relative to the file, resolved by
the loader per c12 layer before layers merge. ormConfig attaches a resolver
under Symbol.for("prisma.config.resolve"); the ORM loader resolves each
layer against its own file and merges nearest-first; the resolved section
records rootDir. The section validator refuses a section still carrying
its resolver (an engine that never called it) or lacking rootDir, so no
path is ever silently resolved against cwd.

Commands read absolute paths and rootDir. The post-load finalisation in
the command wrapper and the cwd anchoring in the migration path helpers
are gone; control API operations that located the project through a
configPath take projectDir instead, which also fixes migration plan from
a parent directory walking to the wrong package.json.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
@wmadden-electric wmadden-electric changed the title fix(cli): relative paths in prisma.config.ts are relative to the config file, whichever directory the command runs from fix(config): relative paths in prisma.config.ts resolve against the file that wrote them (ADR 253) Sep 21, 2026
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Comment thread packages/1-framework/1-core/config/src/config-resolve.ts Outdated
…onfig resolves its own paths

Replaces the resolver protocol with the simplest mechanism that gives the
same guarantee: the loader publishes the directory of the file it is
evaluating in globalThis[Symbol.for("prisma.config.baseDir")] for the
duration of the evaluation, and defineConfig reads it while the file runs
to resolve the contract source inputs, contract.output and migrations.dir,
recording the directory as baseDir on the section. Evaluated outside a
loader the paths stay as written and no baseDir is recorded, which the
section validator refuses.

The per-layer resolve-then-merge pass, the resolver key, and the defu
dependency are gone. rootDir is renamed baseDir throughout, the industry
term for the directory relative paths resolve against. ADR 253 is
rewritten around the decision, with the resolver protocol and
definePrismaConfig(import.meta, ...) recorded as alternatives.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
@wmadden-electric wmadden-electric changed the title fix(config): relative paths in prisma.config.ts resolve against the file that wrote them (ADR 253) feat(config): relative paths in prisma.config.ts resolve against the file that wrote them (ADR 253) Sep 21, 2026

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In `@packages/1-framework/1-core/config/src/config-base-dir.ts`:
- Around line 14-29: Update withBaseDir and the BASE_DIR_KEY access path to
store the base directory in async-context-local state rather than mutable
globalThis state. Preserve restoration and cleanup semantics for nested or
concurrent evaluations so defineConfig and subsequent path normalization always
read the directory belonging to their own async evaluation.

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- Line 119: Update loadConfig’s ORM handling before buildLoadedConfig so
raw.baseDir is validated as present before calling resolveConfigPaths; do not
substitute configDir when baseDir is missing. Preserve the existing
withConfigDefaults behavior only after this validation so ormConfigSection can
emit the missing-baseDir diagnostic.
- Around line 191-197: Update the configuration-loading flow around
c12.loadConfig so every extends layer is evaluated with a base-directory scope
derived from dirname(layer.configFile), rather than inheriting only configCwd.
Ensure relative values such as migrations.dir resolve against the directory of
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Comment thread packages/1-framework/1-core/config/src/config-base-dir.ts
const config = issues.some((issue) => issue.section === 'migrations')
? raw
: { ...raw, migrations: finalizeMigrationsConfig(raw.migrations, configDir) };
: withConfigDefaults(resolveConfigPaths(raw, raw.baseDir ?? configDir));

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Validate baseDir before resolving a raw ORM section.

loadConfig passes result.config.orm to buildLoadedConfig before commands validate the section through ormConfigSection. A plain ORM object has no raw.baseDir, so line 119 substitutes configDir. resolveConfigPaths then adds baseDir, and ormConfigSection cannot report its missing-baseDir diagnostic. Require an existing raw.baseDir before path resolution, then apply defaults after this validation.

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In `@packages/1-framework/3-tooling/config-loader/src/load.ts` at line 119, Update
loadConfig’s ORM handling before buildLoadedConfig so raw.baseDir is validated
as present before calling resolveConfigPaths; do not substitute configDir when
baseDir is missing. Preserve the existing withConfigDefaults behavior only after
this validation so ormConfigSection can emit the missing-baseDir diagnostic.

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Comment on lines +191 to +197
result = await withBaseDir(configCwd, () =>
c12.loadConfig<Record<string, unknown>>({
name: 'prisma',
...ifDefined('configFile', resolvedConfigPath),
cwd: configCwd,
}),
);

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Evaluate each extends layer with its own base directory.

The full c12.loadConfig call runs under withBaseDir(configCwd, ...). When c12 evaluates a base config through extends, the base does not receive its own base-directory scope. A relative value such as migrations.dir: './migrations' can therefore resolve against the extending config's directory.

Later normalization cannot correct this value. defineConfig has already converted it to an absolute path, and resolveConfigPaths preserves absolute paths. Evaluate each layer under dirname(layer.configFile), or add an equivalent per-layer resolution step before merging. Add a regression test with an extends file in a different directory.

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In `@packages/1-framework/3-tooling/config-loader/src/load.ts` around lines 191 -
197, Update the configuration-loading flow around c12.loadConfig so every
extends layer is evaluated with a base-directory scope derived from
dirname(layer.configFile), rather than inheriting only configCwd. Ensure
relative values such as migrations.dir resolve against the directory of the
layer that defines them before merging, while preserving existing normalization
for absolute paths. Add a regression test covering an extends file located in a
different directory.

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wmadden-electric and others added 2 commits September 21, 2026 16:11
…resolved paths

Review findings on the base-directory design:

- The published directory was a plain global, so two config loads that
  overlap in one process (the language server loading several projects)
  could read each other's directory. It is now an AsyncLocalStorage kept
  under the same Symbol.for key, so each evaluation sees its own.
- A baseDir written by hand into a plain-object section was trusted: a
  non-string crashed resolution and a relative value silently anchored
  every path on the wrong directory. collectConfigIssues now refuses a
  baseDir that is not an absolute path and any contract input, contract
  output or migrations dir that is still relative, so the loader and the
  CLI validator enforce one rule; the loader anchors on configDir when
  the authored baseDir is unusable and lets validation report it.
- ADR 253 records the release order the validator imposes: the engine
  that publishes the base directory ships before the toolchain release
  that requires it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>
…importing node:async_hooks

Only loaders create the store, so only loaders import AsyncLocalStorage;
withBaseDir moves to @internal/config-loader. baseDir() in @internal/config
reads whatever store a loader published under the shared key and is
undefined otherwise, so defineConfig runs under any runtime.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

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This is too complex.


/** What a loader publishes: the shape of an AsyncLocalStorage<string>. */
export interface BaseDirStore {
getStore(): string | undefined;

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getStore() is weird. I expect a Store to be an interface, an object like a repository, not the value the store contains

type ContractSourceProvider = NonNullable<PrismaNextConfig['contract']>['source'];

/** A value that is not a string is left for validation to report. */
function resolveAuthored(baseDir: string, value: string): string {

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This name doesn't make sense. resolveAbsolutePath() would make more sense

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return Array.isArray(inputs)
? { ...source, inputs: inputs.map((input) => resolveAuthored(baseDir, input)) }
: source;

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Does this just try to convert every path in the config object? That's nuts. Path strings should be selected deliberately, shouldn't they? E.g. when the config shape is declared, it would be nice to be able to say that a key is a path

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Closing. The design is being redone in the engine: each product declares its config section once as a schema with path-typed keys, and the engine loader validates and resolves those paths per file from that declaration. The ORM side will be a new PR that declares the orm section schema and drops its hand-written validation and resolution. Superseded; see prisma/prisma-cli#274 for the engine discussion.

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