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-**[Prisma Postgres](https://www.prisma.io/postgres)** is managed PostgreSQL built into that workflow: `npx prisma init --db` provisions a production database, and `npx prisma dev` runs a local one.
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-**[Prisma Compute](https://www.prisma.io/compute)**, now in public beta, deploys TypeScript applications next to your database for low-latency data access.
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Every layer is operable through the same programmable interfaces: the CLI, the Management API, and the [MCP server](/announcing-prisma-s-mcp-server-vibe-code-with-prisma-postgres). That is what a single agent experience means in practice. An agent can define a schema, provision a database, run migrations, deploy the application, and debug it, entirely in code, with one bill and predictable spend caps at the end. If download charts increasingly measure what agents choose, the way to earn that choice is to be the platform agents can operate end to end.
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Every layer is operable through the same programmable interfaces: the CLI, the Management API, and the [MCP server](/announcing-prisma-s-mcp-server-vibe-code-with-prisma-postgres). That is what a single agent experience means in practice. An agent can define a schema, provision a database, run migrations, deploy the application, and debug it, entirely in code, with one bill and predictable spend caps at the end.
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The ORM itself is being rebuilt around the same idea. [Prisma Next](/prisma-next-early-access-write-your-contract-prompt-your-agent-ship-your-app), available in Early Access today and becoming Prisma 8 at general availability, is an agent-native TypeScript ORM. You describe your application as models and relationships in one central data contract; Prisma generates the migrations, and you or your agent write type-safe queries in terms of your models. Every query returns structured, machine-readable output, and every operation has guardrails and verifications, so an agent can parse what comes back and correct itself instead of guessing at a stack trace. The client is about 100 KB and runs at roughly 90% of raw `pg` throughput ([benchmark](/prisma-next-performance-benchmark)). Prisma 7 remains the production version today; teams adopt Prisma Next by running it in parallel and migrating incrementally.
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If download charts increasingly measure what agents choose, the way to earn that choice is to be the platform agents can operate end to end.
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## Frequently asked questions
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<Accordiontitle="Why did npm download numbers grow so fast in 2025 and 2026?">
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A large share of registry-wide growth comes from AI coding agents. Agents install dependencies in fresh, cache-less sandboxes on every run, so one human prompt can trigger dozens of installs. Downloads of long-stable packages like lodash and express roughly tripled between January 2025 and June 2026 without a matching increase in human developers, and packages in agent-default stacks grew several times faster than that baseline.
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[Prisma Next](/prisma-next-early-access-write-your-contract-prompt-your-agent-ship-your-app) is an agent-native TypeScript ORM, currently in Early Access, that becomes Prisma 8 at general availability. You describe your application as models and relationships in one central data contract; Prisma generates the migrations, and you or your agent write type-safe queries against your models, with structured machine-readable output and guardrails on every operation. Prisma 7 remains the production version of Prisma ORM today.
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