Prisma Next Upgrade

Upgrade Prisma Next (user app)

This skill upgrades a project that consumes Prisma Next via the public package API (@prisma-next/postgres, @prisma-next/mongo, the contract files in prisma/, etc.). If the project is itself a Prisma Next extension, use the prisma-next-extension-upgrade skill instead — or both, if the repo contains both an app and an extension package.

Step 0 — Ensure the skill is up to date

Before anything else, ensure this skill is installed at @latest and reload it. Bug fixes to old per-transition upgrade instructions ship in the latest skill release as part of its cumulative set; running against a stale skill can apply a known-broken translation.

If the agent runtime supports an in-session refresh, perform it now. Otherwise, exit and ask the user to re-install (pnpm dlx skills add prisma/prisma-next/skills/upgrade --all), then re-invoke. The upgrade-skill subpath is intentionally unpinned (always main) — the cumulative instruction set is the source of truth, and the latest release fixes apply to every prior transition.

Pre-flight — extension compatibility

Before changing any code, refuse to upgrade past any installed extension's pinned Prisma Next version. Extensions in Prisma Next pin every @prisma-next/* dependency to a single exact version (no carets, no ranges); that pin is the highest version the extension has been validated against. Upgrading the user app past that pin would silently desynchronise the extension's type identity from the app's.

Steps:

1. Read prisma-next.config.ts (or its TS-discoverable equivalent at the project root) and enumerate the list of extension packages it imports. Each extensionPacks: [...] entry corresponds to an installed npm package.
2. For each extension, read its installed package.json from node_modules/<extension-package-name>/package.json and find any @prisma-next/* entry under dependencies, peerDependencies, or optionalDependencies. By construction those entries are exact-version pins (e.g. "0.7.0"), set when the extension author last ran their own upgrade.
3. Compute the lowest pinned version across all extensions. That is the highest Prisma Next version reachable by this app on its current extension set.
4. Compare to the user's target. If the target exceeds the lowest pin, halt with a structured message naming each lagging extension and its pinned version, and offer two paths:
   • (a) Wait for the lagging extension to publish a compatible release, then re-run.
   • (b) Re-run with --to=<highest-reachable> (or whatever flag/option the user is using to set the target).

Do not auto-downgrade the target; do not skip the lagging extension; do not bump past it. If the user explicitly overrides the halt, surface the risk clearly first.

If prisma-next.config.ts is absent or names no extensions, skip the pre-flight.

Role detection

This skill applies when the project consumes Prisma Next:

• package.json declares one or more @prisma-next/* packages under dependencies / devDependencies, and
• the package is not itself an extension (no @prisma-next/contract (or other SPI) under dependencies/peerDependencies; name does not match ^@.*/extension-; not referenced from a sibling app's prisma-next.config.ts).

If the project also matches the extension-author role, install the prisma-next-extension-upgrade skill (pnpm dlx skills add prisma/prisma-next/skills/extension-author --all) and run this flow first, then that one in the same session. If detection is ambiguous, ask the user.

Version detection

• From-version. Read the currently-installed Prisma Next version from pnpm-lock.yaml (or package-lock.json / yarn.lock) by inspecting the resolved version of any @prisma-next/* package. If the lockfile shows multiple @prisma-next/* packages at different minors (already broken), the lowest minor is the from-version.
• To-version. Either the version the user specified, or the latest stable from npm view @prisma-next/postgres dist-tags.latest.

Report both back to the user before continuing.

Transition chain

If the from-to delta spans multiple minor versions (e.g. 0.6 → 0.8), build the chain of one-minor steps:

0.6 → 0.7 → 0.8

Apply each step in order, fully: bump, install, run instructions, validate, commit — before moving to the next. Halt the chain on the first failed step; do not skip ahead.

The chain order does not depend on which extensions are installed; the pre-flight has already established the target is reachable.

Per-step flow

For each (from, to) step in the chain:

1. Bump @prisma-next/* deps. Rewrite every @prisma-next/* entry in the project's package.json to the exact <to> version (no caret, no tilde). All entries advance to the same version. Cover dependencies and devDependencies. The upgrade skill itself is delivered through pnpm dlx skills add and lives under .agents/skills/prisma-next-upgrade/ (or the equivalent CLI-managed directory) — there is no @prisma-next/upgrade-skill npm entry to bump.

2. Install. Run pnpm install (or the project's lockfile-managing command). The project's code is now broken against the new types — the upgrade instructions for <from> → <to> exist to fix it.

3. Read the upgrade instructions. Load upgrades/<from>-to-<to>/instructions.md from this skill package. Parse the YAML frontmatter and pay particular attention to its changes[] array.

4. Apply each change. For each entry in changes[]:

   • If the entry has a detection block (glob + content predicate), run it; skip the change if no files match. No detection → apply unconditionally.
   • If the entry names a script: (relative path next to instructions.md), invoke it from the project root: *.ts via pnpm exec tsx <path>, *.sh via bash <path>, codemods per the script's own prose. No script → follow the prose body directly.

   Empty changes[] (placeholder shape for transitions with no user-side breaking changes) is a no-op — proceed to validation.

5. Validate. Run pnpm typecheck && pnpm test (or the project's equivalent — the scripts field of the project's package.json is the discovery surface). If anything is red, halt the chain. Do not auto-roll-back; surface the failure to the user with the failing change's id (from the frontmatter), the file paths the change operated on, and the inferred remediation.

6. Commit. One commit per step containing the package.json bump, lockfile churn, and any source rewrites:

   chore: upgrade @prisma-next/* to <to-version>
   

   (Or the project's own commit-message convention.) Never squash steps. The user may squash on merge; the in-flight history must be per-step so a failed step is bisectable.

Then move on to the next step.

When the chain is done

Report back to the user: the number of steps applied, the SHAs of the commits you made, and any open follow-ups (e.g. tests that were already red before the upgrade and still are).

Failure surfaces

When a step fails: surface a structured error with code PN-UPGRADE-NNNN, the failing change's id, the file paths touched (or the lockfile, or the validation command), and the inferred remediation. Do not retry automatically; do not auto-roll-back. The user can revert if they want a clean slate.

If a pre-flight halt fires, do not bump anything; the project is left unchanged.