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Prisma 7: migrate dev / db push no longer run generate or seed; --skip-generate and --skip-seed removed

prisma@7#prisma#prisma-7#migrate#seed#cli
Fix

Before (package.json):

{
  "prisma": { "seed": "tsx prisma/seed.ts" },
  "scripts": { "db:migrate": "prisma migrate dev --skip-seed" }
}

After — prisma.config.ts:

import 'dotenv/config'
import { defineConfig, env } from 'prisma/config'
export default defineConfig({
  schema: 'prisma/schema.prisma',
  migrations: { path: 'prisma/migrations', seed: 'tsx prisma/seed.ts' },
  datasource: { url: env('DATABASE_URL') },
})

package.json scripts:

{
  "scripts": {
    "postinstall": "prisma generate",
    "db:migrate": "prisma migrate dev && prisma generate",
    "db:seed": "prisma db seed"
  }
}

In CI/Docker builds, run npx prisma generate explicitly before tsc/next build.

Symptom

After upgrading to Prisma 7: prisma migrate dev applies migrations but the client types are stale (new fields missing), the seed script never runs after migrate dev/migrate reset, npm install no longer produces a client, and scripts using --skip-generate / --skip-seed fail with an unknown-flag error. Wrong assumption: migrate runs generate and seed implicitly and postinstall generates the client.

Cause

Prisma ORM 7.0.0 (2025-11-19) removed implicit commands: the postinstall hook no longer runs prisma generate; prisma migrate dev/db push no longer run generate; migrate dev/migrate reset no longer run the seed. The flags --skip-generate (migrate dev, db push) and --skip-seed (migrate dev) were removed. The prisma key in package.json (where seed used to live) was removed — the seed command now lives in prisma.config.ts. Also removed: prisma introspect (use db pull), db execute --schema/--url, migrate diff --from-url/--to-url/--from-schema-datasource/--to-schema-datasource (use --from-config-datasource / --to-config-datasource).

Verify

After npm run db:migrate, new model fields appear in the generated client types; npx prisma db seed runs the seed.

Sources

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