prisma / orm

1. Scaffold a new project

The interactive scaffolder picks an app template (Next.js, Hono, Nuxt, Astro, NestJS, SvelteKit, TanStack Start, or Elysia) and wires Prisma 8 in with your chosen database (PostgreSQL or MongoDB):

npm create prisma

You finish with a runnable app, a starter contract, and the agent skills already installed. See the create-prisma reference for every template and flag, or follow the PostgreSQL and MongoDB quickstarts.

2. Or, add Prisma 8 to an existing project

Run this from your repo root:

npx prisma orm init

orm init writes prisma.config.ts, scaffolds a starter contract and db.ts under src/prisma/, installs the runtime, and emits the contract. It does not touch your framework or build setup. Then install the agent skills:

npx prisma skills sync

See the orm init and skills CLI references, or the guides for adding Prisma 8 to an existing PostgreSQL or MongoDB app.

3. Use your AI agent for everything Prisma 8

Both installers leave a top-level prisma-8.md primer at your project root for any agent to read first, and install one SKILL.md per workflow into the directories agent runtimes read:

• .claude/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md — Claude Code
• .cursor/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md — Cursor
• .agents/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md — universal location for Copilot Agent and other runtimes
• .devin/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md — Devin

Skills ship inside the Prisma packages your project installs, so they always describe the version in use. Your editor's AI assistant auto-loads the right skill when your prompt matches.

Just describe what you want. For example:

"Add a posts model with a relation to users, then write a query that loads each user's three most recent posts."

The agent loads the prisma-8 skill, opens its contract and queries references, then drives the change end-to-end.

For the full catalogue and what each skill covers, see skills/README.md.