docs(errors): each error reference says which commands it covers and links the other

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You see CLI.PROMPT_REQUIRED in your terminal, search for it, and land on /orm/reference/error-reference. That page says it lists every code and has a CLI namespace, but the code is not in it. The code lives on /cli/error-reference, which also says it lists every code and also has a CLI namespace, and neither page mentions the other. After this change the ORM page opens with:

This page lists the codes from the Prisma ORM commands, which start with prisma contract, prisma db, prisma migration, and prisma orm, and the codes your app can raise at runtime, including from extensions. Every other prisma command has its codes on the CLI error reference.

followed directly by this note, and then a linked list of the namespaces on the page:

One exception: some CLI.* codes come from the command-line layer that every prisma command runs through, for its arguments, for loading prisma.config.ts, for prompts, and for consent. Those are on the CLI error reference even when you ran a Prisma ORM command. CLI.CONFIG_SECTION_INVALID from prisma contract emit is one of them. The CLI.* codes on this page are the ones the Prisma ORM commands raise themselves. If a CLI.* code is not on this page, it is on the other.

The CLI page gets the mirror image.

The decision

Each page says which commands it covers, lists its namespaces, links the other page, and explains the shared CLI namespace. The change is made in the generator that produces both pages, not in the pages themselves.

Why the generator

Both pages are generated by apps/docs/scripts/generate-error-reference.mjs from a markdown file that each product repository owns (docs/reference/error-reference.md in prisma/prisma and in prisma/prisma-cli). A workflow regenerates them every day and on every change upstream, and overwrites the files in this repository. An edit to the pages would last until the next run. The pages also cannot be merged into one, because the two repositories each own a CLI namespace and use the same code names for different errors.

What changed, step by step

1. Scope sentence. The generator replaces the source's sentence "This page lists every published code." with the scope sentence above, per page. If upstream ever rewords that sentence, the generator inserts the scope sentence after the first paragraph instead and prints a warning, so the cross-link survives.
2. Namespace list. "Namespaces on this page:" is built from the source's ## headings at generation time, each linked to its section, keeping the one-line description from the source's own namespace table where it has one. The list comes from the headings rather than the table because the table had already fallen behind (TESTKIT had a section but no row).
3. The shared CLI namespace. The note above is emitted only when the source has a ## CLI heading, and it sits directly under the scope sentence, because a cold read showed that a reader arriving with CLI.CONFIG_SECTION_INVALID from prisma contract emit stopped at the first paragraph and never reached a note placed below the namespace list. The rule is by who raises the code, not by command prefix: the command-line engine raises CLI.* codes for every command, including the ORM ones, and those are on the CLI page; the ORM commands' own CLI.* codes are on the ORM page.
4. Frontmatter. The page descriptions no longer say "every".
5. Plainer wording in the generator's own sentences. "Each code anchors as #<CODE>" becomes "When an error prints a docsUrl, that link opens the code's entry on this page", and the generated comment and intro have no em dashes.
6. Tests. Five tests join the existing scripts/generate-error-reference.test.ts: the scope sentence, the namespace list, the CLI note only with a ## CLI heading, the fallback insertion with its warning, and the frontmatter.
7. Both pages regenerated from each repository's main.

One thing to know: the CLI source says "every" a second time, in "and this page lists every code the CLI can emit". The generator cuts that clause with a literal match. Upstream should drop it too.

How it was checked

• Each source repository's own list-error-codes.mjs --verify passes on the regenerated pages, run the way the sync workflow runs it. That script needs a git checkout of the repository, so depth-1 clones were used.
• lint:links reports 0 errors; the docs app tests (71) and the root tests (63) pass; pnpm check passes.
• The regenerated pages are byte-identical to fresh generator output, so the formatter does not rewrite them.
• One cold read of both intros by a reviewer with no memory of writing them, as a Prisma ORM 7 developer who has just seen an error code. Every mark on the generator's own sentences is fixed. The remaining marks are on the upstream intro text ("structured envelope", links to architecture decision records as the definition, "your facade package", where the P2002-style codes went), which the source files own; that is recorded for the two repositories as item D31 in the audit's changes.md.

Follow-up in the source repositories

The intros of docs/reference/error-reference.md in prisma/orm and prisma/prisma-cli are written for those repositories' maintainers ("structured envelope", architecture decision records as the definition, the structuredError versus runtimeError rule), and this generator patches around them. Rewriting those intros for readers upstream would let the generator stop doing that. The files themselves stay: the hosted pages are generated from them, and each repository's CI fails a pull request that adds a code without an entry there. Tracked as D31 in the audit's changes.md.

Alternatives considered

• Edit the two pages. The next sync would overwrite the edit.
• Merge the pages. CLI.PROMPT_REQUIRED means different things in the two repositories, so one page cannot hold both.
• Fix the intro upstream. Which commands a hosted page covers is a property of this site, not of either repository, so the generator owns that sentence. The jargon in the upstream intros is a separate item for those repositories.

Context

Slice 06 of the Prisma ORM 8 docs restructure (item A8; spec at docs/orm-docs-audit/slices/06-error-references-link/spec.md on the docs/orm8-docs-audit-design branch, #8243).

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Generate scoped error references apps/docs/scripts/generate-error-reference.mjs, scripts/generate-error-reference.test.ts	The generator applies target-specific scope text, builds linked namespace lists from source sections, and returns warnings when expected scope wording is absent. Tests cover these transformations and frontmatter descriptions.
Clarify page scope and namespaces apps/docs/content/docs/cli/error-reference.mdx, apps/docs/content/docs/orm/reference/error-reference.mdx	The pages distinguish non-ORM CLI codes from ORM command, runtime, and extension codes. Their namespace indexes use linked lists and explain that the two pages document different CLI codes.
Expand ORM error descriptions apps/docs/content/docs/orm/reference/error-reference.mdx	The ORM page adds details for CONTRACT.CAST_REFUSED, CONTRACT.DEFAULT_INVALID, and RUNTIME.TEMPORAL_UNAVAILABLE.

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