> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.jethings.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Production Migration

> Applying a verified migration to the production database

This page is for whoever is responsible for the production database. By the time you're here, the migration has already been:

* Built and tested locally by a developer
* Reviewed, bootstrapped, and merged to dev by a reviewer

Production migration is a **deploy step**, not a place to discover problems — all validation should already have happened upstream.

## Workflow

```bash theme={null}
pnpm db:bootstrap:prod
```

This runs `prisma migrate deploy` against `.env.prod` (applying pending migrations only — it never generates new ones or prompts), then runs the prod seed script.

<Warning>
  Before running this, make sure:

  * The migration has been running cleanly on **dev** for a reasonable soak period, not just merged minutes ago.
  * You've pulled the **latest production backup** first, so you have a fast rollback path if something unexpected happens.
  * Nothing about dev's data shape (volume, edge cases, nulls) differs meaningfully from prod in a way that could make a migration that was fine on dev behave differently on prod.
</Warning>

<Note>
  The dev-responsible person is expected to have already surfaced any risk (destructive changes, expected warnings) before this point — this step should be uneventful. If it isn't, stop and coordinate with dev before continuing.
</Note>