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prisma-cli-init

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by prisma · part of prisma/cursor-plugin

prisma-cli-init — an installable skill for AI agents, published by prisma/cursor-plugin.

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🧩 One of 7 skills in the prisma/cursor-plugin package — works on its own, and pairs well with its siblings.

prisma-cli-init — an installable skill for AI agents, published by prisma/cursor-plugin.

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prisma-cli-init — an installable skill for AI agents, published by prisma/cursor-plugin. npx skills add https://github.com/prisma/cursor-plugin --skill prisma-cli-init Download ZIPGitHub8

prisma init

Bootstraps a fresh Prisma ORM project in the current directory.

Command

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prisma init [options]

Bun Runtime

If you're using Bun, run Prisma with bunx --bun so it doesn't fall back to Node.js:

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bunx --bun prisma init

What It Creates

  • prisma/schema.prisma - Your Prisma schema file

  • prisma.config.ts - TypeScript configuration for Prisma CLI

  • .env - Environment variables (DATABASE_URL)

  • .gitignore - Ignores node_modules, .env, and generated files

Options

Option Description Default --datasource-provider Database provider: postgresql, mysql, sqlite, sqlserver, mongodb, cockroachdb postgresql --db Provisions a fully managed Prisma Postgres database on the Prisma Data Platform - --url Define a custom datasource url - --generator-provider Define the generator provider to use prisma-client --output Define Prisma Client generator output path to use - --preview-feature Define a preview feature to use - --with-model Add example model to created schema file -

Examples

Basic initialization

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prisma init

Creates a PostgreSQL project setup.

SQLite project

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prisma init --datasource-provider sqlite

MySQL with custom URL

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prisma init --datasource-provider mysql --url "mysql://user:password@localhost:3306/mydb"

Prisma Postgres (cloud)

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prisma init --db

Opens browser for authentication, creates cloud database instance.

AI-generated schema

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prisma init --prompt "Blog with users, posts, comments, and tags"

Generates schema based on description and deploys to Prisma Postgres.

With preview features

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prisma init --preview-feature relationJoins --preview-feature fullTextSearch

Generated Schema (v7)

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generator client {
 provider = "prisma-client"
 output = "../generated"
}

datasource db {
 provider = "postgresql"
}

Generated Config (v7)

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// prisma.config.ts
import { defineConfig, env } from 'prisma/config'

export default defineConfig({
 schema: 'prisma/schema.prisma',
 migrations: {
 path: 'prisma/migrations',
 },
 datasource: {
 url: env('DATABASE_URL'),
 },
})

Next Steps After Init

  • Configure DATABASE_URL in prisma.config.ts or .env

  • Define your models in prisma/schema.prisma

  • Run prisma dev for local development or connect to remote DB

  • Run prisma migrate dev to create migrations

  • Run prisma generate to generate Prisma Client