The Better Auth CLI can only run migrations for Kysely adapters, not for Prisma or Drizzle
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npx @better-auth/cli generate emits the schema your current configuration needs, including every table and column added by enabled plugins. npx @better-auth/cli migrate applies it directly, and that only works where Better Auth owns the database layer through Kysely.
With the Prisma or Drizzle adapters you run generate to update the schema file and then use that ORM's own migration tooling; running migrate there errors rather than silently doing something surprising. Re-run generate after enabling any plugin. Organization, two-factor and passkey each add tables or columns, and skipping the step produces a missing-table SQL error at the first use of the feature, typically in production because the local database was migrated by hand earlier.
Source: https://www.better-auth.com/docs/concepts/cli
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