# contract print (/docs/cli/contract-print)

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Write the configured contract as a Prisma ORM 8 PSL contract.

Location: CLI > contract print

`contract print` loads the contract that `contract` names in `prisma.config.ts` and writes it as a Prisma ORM 8 PSL contract. The source can be a Prisma ORM 7 schema, a TypeScript contract, or a PSL contract.

Use it to move from a Prisma ORM 7 `schema.prisma`, read through [`prisma7Schema`](https://www.prisma.io/docs/cli/configuration#use-a-prisma-orm-7-schema), to a contract file written for Prisma ORM 8.

The command is offline. It does not need a database connection.

## Usage [#usage]

  

#### bun

```bash
bunx prisma contract print [--output <path>]
```

#### pnpm

```bash
pnpm prisma contract print [--output <path>]
```

#### yarn

```bash
yarn prisma contract print [--output <path>]
```

#### npm

```bash
npx prisma contract print [--output <path>]
```

## Options [#options]

| Option            | What it does                                                                            |
| ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `--output <path>` | Writes the PSL to this file. Without it, the command prints the PSL and writes no file. |
| `--format human`  | Prints the PSL to standard output, so you can redirect it to a file.                    |
| `--config <path>` | Read this config file instead of `./prisma.config.ts`.                                  |
| `--json`          | Prints a machine-readable result, with the PSL in `psl.text`.                           |

## Examples [#examples]

  

#### bun

```bash
bunx prisma contract print
bunx prisma contract print --output ./src/prisma/contract.prisma
bunx prisma contract print --json
```

#### pnpm

```bash
pnpm prisma contract print
pnpm prisma contract print --output ./src/prisma/contract.prisma
pnpm prisma contract print --json
```

#### yarn

```bash
yarn prisma contract print
yarn prisma contract print --output ./src/prisma/contract.prisma
yarn prisma contract print --json
```

#### npm

```bash
npx prisma contract print
npx prisma contract print --output ./src/prisma/contract.prisma
npx prisma contract print --json
```

## What it writes [#what-it-writes]

The file starts with `// use prisma-8`. When you point `contract` at the file and run `contract emit`, you get the same contract as before, with the same hashes, so the database needs no migration and no new `db sign`.

When a part of the contract has no PSL form, the command names that part, fails, and writes nothing. It also refuses an `--output` path that is one of the files it reads, `prisma.config.ts`, or a file `contract emit` writes.

A warning in the contract source, such as `PSL_DEPRECATED_SCALAR_NAME`, does not stop the command. It is reported as a diagnostic whose `severity` is `warn`. In `--json` output, the warning is an entry of the result's `diagnostics`, with `code` set to `CONTRACT.SOURCE_DIAGNOSTIC` and the warning's own code in `meta.code`.

## Next steps [#next-steps]

* Set `contract` in `prisma.config.ts` to the file you wrote, as [Configuration](https://www.prisma.io/docs/cli/configuration) shows.
* Run [`contract emit`](https://www.prisma.io/docs/cli/contract-emit) to write `contract.json` and `contract.d.ts` from it.

## Related pages

- [`auth`](https://www.prisma.io/docs/cli/auth): Sign in to your Prisma account from the CLI, sign out, and manage workspace sessions.
- [`branch`](https://www.prisma.io/docs/cli/branch): List platform branches for a project.
- [`bucket`](https://www.prisma.io/docs/cli/bucket): Create and manage object-store buckets.
- [`Configuration`](https://www.prisma.io/docs/cli/configuration): Configure Prisma ORM CLI commands with prisma.config.ts and global flags.
- [`contract emit`](https://www.prisma.io/docs/cli/contract-emit): Emit Prisma ORM contract artifacts.