ORM config paths resolve against the file that declared them

apps/lsp-playground/package.json

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
     "ws": "^8.21.2"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.4.0",
+    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.5.0",
     "@repo/tsconfig": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@types/node": "catalog:",
     "@types/ws": "^8.5.13",

apps/telemetry-backend/package.json

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
     "evlog": "^2.24.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.4.0",
+    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.5.0",
     "@prisma/compute-sdk": "^0.39.0",
     "@prisma/management-api-sdk": "^1.56.0",
     "@repo/test-utils": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",

examples/bundle-size/package.json

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
     "pg": "catalog:"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.4.0",
+    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.5.0",
     "@prisma/dev": "catalog:",
     "@repo/test-utils": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@repo/tsconfig": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",

examples/mongo-blog-leaderboard/package.json

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     "mongodb": "catalog:"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.4.0",
+    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.5.0",
     "@repo/tsconfig": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@types/node": "catalog:",
     "mongodb-memory-server": "catalog:",

examples/mongo-demo/package.json

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     "react-dom": "^19.2.8"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.4.0",
+    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.5.0",
     "@repo/test-utils": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@repo/tsconfig": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@types/node": "catalog:",

examples/multi-extension-monorepo/package.json

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     "@prisma/orm-postgres": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.4.0",
+    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.5.0",
     "@repo/test-utils": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@repo/tsconfig": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@types/node": "catalog:",

examples/paradedb-demo/package.json

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     "pg": "catalog:"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.4.0",
+    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.5.0",
     "@repo/test-utils": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@repo/tsconfig": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@types/node": "catalog:",

examples/prisma-8-cloudflare-worker/package.json

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
   "devDependencies": {
     "@cloudflare/vitest-pool-workers": "0.20.3",
     "@cloudflare/workers-types": "5.20260804.1",
-    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.4.0",
+    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.5.0",
     "@repo/tsconfig": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@types/node": "catalog:",
     "@types/pg": "catalog:",

examples/prisma-8-demo-sqlite/package.json

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     "dotenv": "^17.4.2"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.4.0",
+    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.5.0",
     "@repo/tsconfig": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@types/node": "catalog:",
     "tsx": "catalog:",

examples/prisma-8-demo/package.json

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     "react-dom": "^19.2.8"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.4.0",
+    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.5.0",
     "@prisma/dev": "catalog:",
     "@repo/test-utils": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@repo/tsconfig": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",

examples/prisma-8-postgis-demo/package.json

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
     "react-leaflet": "^5.0.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.4.0",
+    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.5.0",
     "@repo/test-utils": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@repo/tsconfig": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@types/leaflet": "^1.9.22",

examples/prisma7-adoption/package.json

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     "temporal-polyfill": "^1.0.4"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.4.0",
+    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.5.0",
     "@prisma/dev": "catalog:",
     "@prisma/prisma7": "7.10.0",
     "@repo/test-utils": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",

examples/react-router-demo/package.json

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
     "react-router": "^8.1.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.4.0",
+    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.5.0",
     "@prisma/dev": "catalog:",
     "@react-router/dev": "^8.1.0",
     "@repo/test-utils": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",

examples/retail-store/package.json

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
     "tailwindcss": "^4.3.3"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.4.0",
+    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.5.0",
     "@repo/test-utils": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@repo/tsconfig": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@types/node": "catalog:",

examples/supabase/package.json

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     "pg": "catalog:"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.4.0",
+    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.5.0",
     "@repo/test-utils": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@repo/tsconfig": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@types/node": "catalog:",

packages/1-framework/3-tooling/cli/package.json

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
     "@internal/sql-contract-ts": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@internal/sql-operations": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@internal/sql-runtime": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
-    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.4.0",
+    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.5.0",
     "@repo/test-utils": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@repo/tsconfig": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
     "@repo/tsdown": "workspace:8.0.0-rc.11",
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
     "vitest": "catalog:"
   },
   "peerDependencies": {
-    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.4.0",
+    "@prisma/cli-engine": "0.5.0",
     "typescript": ">=5.9"
   },
   "peerDependenciesMeta": {

packages/1-framework/3-tooling/cli/src/orm/config-section.ts

@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 import type { PrismaNextConfig } from '@internal/config/config-types';
 import type { ConfigValidationIssue } from '@internal/config/config-validation';
 import { collectConfigIssues } from '@internal/config/config-validation';
+import { finalizeContractConfig, finalizeMigrationsConfig } from '@internal/config-loader';
 import { getEmittedArtifactPaths } from '@internal/emitter';
 import { blindCast } from '@internal/utils/casts';
-import type { SectionValidation } from '@prisma/cli-engine';
+import type { SectionProvenance, SectionValidation } from '@prisma/cli-engine';
 import { defineConfigSection } from '@prisma/cli-engine';
 import type { Diagnostic, NextAction } from '@prisma/cli-engine/protocol';
-import { normalize } from 'pathe';
+import { dirname, normalize } from 'pathe';
 
 /**
  * The single config section the `orm` command family owns. The whole Prisma
@@ -128,7 +129,40 @@ function collectArtifactCollisionIssues(
   ];
 }
 
-function validate(raw: unknown): SectionValidation<PrismaNextConfig> {
+function declaringDir(provenance: SectionProvenance, key: string): string | undefined {
+  const file = provenance.keys[key] ?? provenance.files[0];
+  return file === undefined ? undefined : dirname(file);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolves the section's path-valued keys against the config file that
+ * declared each key — never against the invocation directory. Config files
+ * chain from cwd to the repo root and merge per key, so `contract` and
+ * `migrations` can come from different files; each resolves against its own.
+ * Absent `migrations` defaults to `migrations/` beside the nearest declaring
+ * file. Absolute paths pass through unchanged.
+ */
+function resolveAgainstDeclaringFiles(
+  config: PrismaNextConfig,
+  provenance: SectionProvenance,
+): PrismaNextConfig {
+  const contractDir = declaringDir(provenance, 'contract');
+  const migrationsDir = declaringDir(provenance, 'migrations');
+  return {
+    ...config,
+    ...(config.contract !== undefined && contractDir !== undefined
+      ? { contract: finalizeContractConfig(config.contract, contractDir) }
+      : undefined),
+    ...(migrationsDir !== undefined
+      ? { migrations: finalizeMigrationsConfig(config.migrations, migrationsDir) }
+      : undefined),
+  };
+}
+
+function validate(
+  raw: unknown,
+  provenance: SectionProvenance,
+): SectionValidation<PrismaNextConfig> {
   if (raw === undefined) {
     return { ok: false as const, diagnostics: [sectionAbsentDiagnostic()] };
   }
@@ -147,14 +181,20 @@ function validate(raw: unknown): SectionValidation<PrismaNextConfig> {
     return { ok: false as const, diagnostics: issues.map(issueDiagnostic) };
   }
 
-  return {
-    ok: true as const,
-    value: blindCast<
-      PrismaNextConfig,
-      'collectConfigIssues found no structural problem, so every required section is present and well-typed'
-    >(raw),
-    diagnostics: [],
-  };
+  const config = blindCast<
+    PrismaNextConfig,
+    'collectConfigIssues found no structural problem, so every required section is present and well-typed'
+  >(raw);
+  try {
+    return {
+      ok: true as const,
+      value: resolveAgainstDeclaringFiles(config, provenance),
+      diagnostics: [],
+    };
+  } catch (error) {
+    // Resolution spreads the config, so a throwing getter surfaces here.
+    return { ok: false as const, diagnostics: [unreadableDiagnostic(error)] };
+  }
 }
 
 export const ormConfigSection = defineConfigSection<PrismaNextConfig>({

packages/1-framework/3-tooling/cli/src/orm/define-command.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-import type { PrismaNextConfig } from '@internal/config/config-types';
-import { finalizeConfig } from '@internal/config-loader';
-import { blindCast } from '@internal/utils/casts';
 import { isInternalError } from '@internal/utils/internal-error';
 import type {
   ArgsSpec,
@@ -30,39 +27,6 @@ import { normalizeError } from './normalize-error';
  * Prisma ORM rather than something the user did. Re-throwing lets the engine settle it as a bug
  * at exit 1, where converting it would report the same number as a bad connection string.
  */
-function isRecord(value: unknown): value is Record<string, unknown> {
-  return typeof value === 'object' && value !== null && !Array.isArray(value);
-}
-
-/**
- * Hands the handler a config whose paths are absolute. The engine's own
- * loader evaluates `prisma.config.ts` without touching the paths inside it, so
- * a command mounted in the unified host receives `contract.output` and
- * `migrations.dir` exactly as authored — usually relative — while this repo's
- * bin finalizes them in its loader. Anchoring here, on the section every ORM
- * command reads, makes both hosts hand handlers the same absolute paths.
- *
- * The anchor is the working directory: the engine discovers the config in the
- * working directory only, so that is the file's own directory. (A `--config`
- * pointing into another directory is not visible from a command context; a
- * relative path inside such a file resolves against the invocation directory,
- * which is also what the file's author sees the command run from.)
- * Finalization is idempotent — an already-absolute path resolves to itself —
- * so a config that arrived finalized passes through unchanged.
- */
-function finalizedConfigContext<TCtx extends { readonly cwd: string; readonly config: unknown }>(
-  ctx: TCtx,
-): TCtx {
-  if (!isRecord(ctx.config)) {
-    return ctx;
-  }
-  const config = blindCast<
-    PrismaNextConfig,
-    'every ORM command that declares needs.config reads the orm section, whose validated value is PrismaNextConfig'
-  >(ctx.config);
-  return { ...ctx, config: finalizeConfig(config, ctx.cwd) };
-}
-
 export function defineOrmCommand<
   TFlags extends Record<string, FlagSpec<unknown>> = Record<never, FlagSpec<unknown>>,
   TPositionals extends Record<string, PositionalSpec<unknown>> = Record<
@@ -86,7 +50,7 @@ export function defineOrmCommand<
     ...def,
     handler: async (args, ctx) => {
       try {
-        return await def.handler(args, finalizedConfigContext(ctx));
+        return await def.handler(args, ctx);
       } catch (error) {
         if (isInternalError(error)) {
           throw error;

packages/1-framework/3-tooling/cli/src/orm/load-config.ts

@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ export interface LoadOrmConfigOptions {
  * does — definePrismaConfig from `@prisma/cli-engine` with the whole Prisma ORM
  * configuration nested as the single `orm` section.
  *
+ * The engine's config is a chain of files; this loader reads one file, so the
+ * chain it hands back is that one file, and the section's provenance names it
+ * as the declaring file for every key.
+ *
  * Only failures that prevent evaluation entirely are diagnostics here, and
  * they carry `section: null` so they fail exactly the commands that read
  * config. Structural verdicts belong to the section validator.
@@ -32,14 +36,12 @@ export async function loadOrmConfig(options: LoadOrmConfigOptions): Promise<Load
   const loaded = await loadConfig(options.configPath, { cwd: options.cwd });
   if (!loaded.ok) {
     return {
-      path,
-      sections: {},
+      files: [],
       diagnostics: [{ section: null, diagnostic: toEngineDiagnostic(loaded.failure) }],
     };
   }
   return {
-    path,
-    sections: { [ORM_CONFIG_SECTION_NAME]: loaded.value.config },
+    files: [{ path, sections: { [ORM_CONFIG_SECTION_NAME]: loaded.value.config } }],
     diagnostics: [],
   };
 }

packages/1-framework/3-tooling/cli/src/orm/migration/paths.ts

@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@ import { spaceMigrationDirectory } from '@internal/migration-tools/spaces';
 import { relative, resolve } from 'pathe';
 
 /**
- * Where migrations live for this project. Resolved against the invocation
- * directory, which is also the config file's directory for every default
- * invocation.
+ * Where migrations live for this project. The config section validator and
+ * loader hand `migrations.dir` through as an absolute path resolved against
+ * its declaring config file, so `cwd` only anchors a config handed in raw, as
+ * tests do.
  */
 export function migrationsDirFor(config: PrismaNextConfig, cwd: string): string {
   return resolve(cwd, config.migrations?.dir ?? 'migrations');
@@ -37,9 +38,9 @@ export function appRefsDirFor(config: PrismaNextConfig, cwd: string): string {
 }
 
 /**
- * The emitted contract. The config loader has already resolved
- * `contract.output` against the config file's directory, so this only has an
- * effect for a config handed in raw, as tests do.
+ * The emitted contract. The config loader and the section validator have
+ * already resolved `contract.output` against the config file's directory, so
+ * this only has an effect for a config handed in raw, as tests do.
  */
 export function contractPathFor(config: PrismaNextConfig, cwd: string): string | undefined {
   const output = config.contract?.output;

packages/1-framework/3-tooling/cli/test/orm/cli.test.ts

@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ function recordingLoader(): {
     loadConfig: (configPath) => {
       asked.push(configPath ?? '(none)');
       return Promise.resolve({
-        path: configPath ?? 'prisma.config.ts',
-        sections: {},
+        files: [{ path: configPath ?? 'prisma.config.ts', sections: {} }],
         diagnostics: [],
       });
     },