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At a glance

$ prisma dev module.ts --detach
dev: ready
gateway: http://localhost:3001
quotes: http://localhost:3000
$ curl "$(prisma dev url gateway)"        # prints the URL bare, so it goes straight into curl
$ prisma dev url catalog.database
postgres://…@localhost:51300/…
$ prisma emulator list | cat                # piped: one tab-separated line per instance
service   svc_3f9a1c0e7b2d4a61   http://localhost:3001   running   gateway   /Users/ada/shop
service   svc_81ad6e2c9f0b3d47   http://localhost:3000   running   quotes    /Users/ada/shop
$ prisma dev stop

The values are illustrative, and emulator list's fields are separated by tabs, aligned here for reading.

The decision

The prisma binary gains three commands from Composer 0.31.0:

• prisma dev url <address> prints where one part of your local app answers.
• prisma dev stop stops your local app.
• prisma emulator list shows everything the machine's local emulators are running.

The first two sit under prisma dev. The third gets a new emulator group. prisma dev module.ts keeps working exactly as before.

Why

prisma dev runs a Composer app on your machine with no Prisma account. Until now, nothing told scripts, docs or agents where a service ended up. Composer's getting-started page hard-codes curl localhost:3001, which is only right when nothing else holds that port and the services start in a particular order. These commands let them ask.

What the commands act on

Composer's help defines three terms the commands rely on:

• A node is one service, database or bucket in your app.
• A node's address is its name in the app, with dots for a nested node, such as catalog.database.
• An emulator is a program on this machine that stands in for Prisma Cloud. There is one each for services, Postgres databases and S3-compatible buckets, and they keep running after prisma dev ends.

dev url and dev stop act on the app that prisma dev last ran from the current directory, so they belong under dev.

• dev url prints a service's HTTP URL, a database's connection string, or a bucket's S3 address.
• dev stop stops the app's services and Postgres servers and keeps their data. It also cleans up after a prisma dev that was killed before it could stop the app.

emulator list isn't about one app. The emulators are shared by every prisma dev on the machine, so the list shows instances from every directory, each labelled with the directory and address that started it. That's why it gets a group of its own, whose help explains what an emulator is.

How dev holds both a command and subcommands

prisma dev is now both a command (prisma dev module.ts) and a group with subcommands (prisma dev url). The CLI engine supports that since 0.9.0. A subcommand's name wins over the entry argument, so prisma dev url always runs the subcommand. To pass an entry file literally named url, write prisma dev -- url.

Output in a pipe

These follow the CLI's rule that a piped stdout gets plain data and JSON needs --json:

• dev url prints the bare URL.
• dev stop prints nothing, and the exit code is the result.
• emulator list prints one line per instance, with six tab-separated fields: emulator kind, instance id, URL, state, node address and directory.

Versions

@prisma/composer-cli and @prisma/composer move from 0.30.0 to 0.31.0, the release that ships these commands. Composer 0.31.0 still declares a dependency on CLI engine 0.7.0 while this binary ships 0.9.0. The conformance check already allows that mismatch.

Tests

• tests/composer-mount.test.ts (new) mounts Composer's commands at these paths, against Composer's stand-in operations. It checks that:
  • a piped dev url gateway prints the bare URL;
  • dev stop prints nothing;
  • emulator list prints one six-field line per instance;
  • prisma dev --help lists url and stop.
• mount-coverage.test.ts expects the three new paths.
• e2e-coverage.test.ts exempts the three commands from the rule that every command has a real-API end-to-end test. They only talk to local emulators, never the management API. Composer's own integration tests run them against real emulators.
• By hand, through this branch's built binary against a real Composer example on real local emulators:
  • --detach returned once the app was up.
  • dev url printed URLs that answered, including a database URL that psql queried.
  • emulator list worked in a terminal, piped and with --json.
  • The unknown-address and not-started errors were correct.
  • dev stop closed the ports.
  • A restart reused the same ports with the data intact.
• Checks: the CLI tests, typecheck, check:grammar, check:skill-packaging, check:conformance and Biome pass.

The READMEs, packages/cli/AGENTS.md and the platform skill name the new commands.

Alternatives considered

• prisma emulator url <address>. A URL belongs to a node of the app run from this directory, not to an emulator. Putting it under emulator would make people think about the machinery rather than their app.
• A top-level prisma url. It's ambiguous once deployed services also have URLs, which prisma service open handles. Under dev, it's clear the URL is local.
• prisma dev start alongside prisma dev stop. Starting is prisma dev <entry> itself, with --detach to return once every service answers. A separate start would be a second way to do the same thing.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added prisma dev url to display a running node’s local URL, prisma dev stop to stop the app, and prisma emulator list to show local emulator instances.
• Documentation
  • Updated CLI and workflow guides with the new commands, including examples for accessing service URLs and stopping detached development sessions.

Walkthrough

The CLI now mounts Composer’s dev url, dev stop, and emulator list commands and adds help entries for the dev and emulator groups. Composer dependency versions were updated. Tests cover command mounting and shell output. Repository documentation and the platform core concepts skill describe the commands and local development workflow.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c56fc

The skill’s copy-and-run example fails before invoking the CLI; update it to use a concrete service name so readers can follow the documented workflow.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to c56fc

The new commands can inspect and stop local development resources. No security defect was established, but project isolation and interrupted shutdown behavior remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The relevant security scope is the invoking developer’s local emulator resources and their metadata. Because emulators are documented as holding instances from multiple directories, app selection and ownership checks are decisive for shutdown containment. The evidence does not establish cross-user, cross-tenant or cloud-resource exposure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• inferred — The security-relevant transition is from CLI dispatch into Composer’s instance-selection and shutdown implementation. The shell provides invocation context, but neither direct delegation nor the successful double-backed stop test proves that a caller can bypass a boundary—or that the downstream boundary is enforced.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Validate the pinned Composer release’s directory and identity ownership checks and its stop lifecycle across partial failure, interruption, repetition and concurrent execution before relying on project-scoped shutdown guarantees. This addresses an evidence gap, not an observed defect.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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