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PR 12 of 13 for clerk migrate (plan: slice-prs.md on #479). Stacked on #529: review that first, then this one, which shows only its own diff. It adds custom sources and clerk migrate sources. Still behind CLERK_EXPERIMENTAL=migrate.

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CLERK_EXPERIMENTAL=migrate clerk migrate sources
CLERK_EXPERIMENTAL=migrate clerk migrate sources betterauth
CLERK_EXPERIMENTAL=migrate clerk migrate import users.json --source ./my-source.ts --dry-run

What it does

  • --source also takes the path to a source you wrote. It's loaded and checked before anything is read or sent.
  • A run records the source file's hash, so an edited source counts as a different source when a re-run decides whether to continue.
  • Every import but a dry run takes a lock before its checks: clerk-migrate-import-<hash>.lock in the temp directory, keyed by the file, source and instance. A second import of the same file into the same instance is refused even before either writes a run, whatever --runs-dir each uses. This applies to every source, not only custom ones; the README's "The import lock" section covers it.
  • A re-run with an edited custom source is refused, naming the earlier run, unless it passes --new-run.
  • migrate sources lists the built-in sources and what each carries across, or shows one in full. Completion offers the source names.

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Ported from #479 at 7a820406. The follow-ups since, including the import lock, were made on this slice and cherry-picked onto #479, so sources/load-custom.ts, sources/list.ts, sources/registry.ts and run.ts match #479's head, apart from what #531 adds. index.ts keeps direct calls to each handler rather than #479's migrate object.

Tests

  • bun run test covers the unit and integration tests.
  • The live slice suite (pnpm test:migrate:slice5) imports a made-up export through its own custom source, and checks a broken source is refused.

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The migration CLI adds migrate sources to list or inspect built-in and custom sources. It loads and validates custom JavaScript and TypeScript sources and applies their mappings, defaults, and hooks during imports. Import records include custom-source hashes and export-envelope details for run matching. Non-dry-run imports acquire locks based on file hash and instance identity. Completion behavior, documentation, and tests cover these changes.

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  • clerk/cli#576: The changes add migration guidance using bare clerk command names, matching the issue’s command-naming subject.

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  • clerk/cli#524: Adds export envelopes whose source behavior this PR extends for custom-source replacement.
  • clerk/cli#515: Defines import continuation and refusal behavior that this PR extends with custom-source hashes and import locks.
  • clerk/cli#531: Changes the availability contract for migrate sources, which this PR adds behind an experimental gate.
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Comment thread packages/cli-core/src/commands/migrate/README.md Outdated
royanger and others added 30 commits October 28, 2026 19:11
…strings

`migrate sources` wraps each caveat as text, so `caveats: [42]` crashed it
with a raw TypeError and `caveats: "text"` printed one bullet per character.
validateSource now checks it next to the hooks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…and lock an import whatever its runs folder

An edited custom source misses the earlier run's sourceHash, so a re-run
started a new run without saying so, and the users the earlier run created
came back as conflicts. findResume now refuses with exit 2 naming that run,
unless it was undone; --new-run starts a new one anyway. Tests cover the
resume decision: an unchanged source continues, an edited one is refused,
and --new-run starts a new run.

The import lock was keyed by the runs folder too, so two imports of the same
file into the same instance with different --runs-dir values did not block
each other. It is keyed by the file, source and instance alone.

The README documents the lock file, and says `migrate sources` runs a source
file when given its path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…fused

On a filesystem without hard links, acquireLockFile writes the lock itself
with `wx`, so "every write is a .tmp" failed there although the code was
right. The check now holds only when the link went through, and a new test
forces the link to fail and checks the fallback writes the lock exclusively.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`clerk migrate import <export> --source ./custom.ts` was refused whenever the
envelope named a built-in source, so bringing across a field the built-in
mapping leaves out (a WorkOS metadata.username, an Auth.js name that is a
username) meant stripping the envelope into a new file and losing the link
to the export run.

A source given by path now replaces the envelope's and reads its users in the
platform's own shape. The import keeps fromExport, records the source the
envelope named as envelopeSource, and its printed commands keep --source.
One built-in name against another is still refused, and that message now
points at a source you write.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…n's run is unfinished, not just the newest

The check took the newest run of the file, source and instance; when that
one was undone, an older run that still held its users was never looked at,
and the import started a new run beside it. Any run not undone in full now
refuses, and the suggested undo keeps the runs folder and target flags.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…d pass Firebase's parameters to a source you wrote

From Wyatt's review of #530:

- A run is recorded under its source's key, and the import lock, the
  live-run scan and the earlier-run refusal all matched on it. So importing
  an export with the built-in, then re-running it through a source you
  wrote, started a second run beside the first, and two imports of one
  export through different sources took different locks. The three now
  match on the file and the instance only; only the run to continue needs
  the same source and version. The refusal names the other source.
- A Firebase export through a source you wrote lost its hash parameters:
  every Firebase check keyed on `source === "firebase"`, and the source was
  the custom key. They now key on the envelope's source too, so the
  parameters reach `context.firebaseHashConfig` and the run records its
  firebaseHash.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…h, and create the lock's temp file exclusively

- findResume started a new run when the exact-version run was undone,
  without checking the other runs of the file. An older version's
  interrupted run behind it then had its users come back as conflicts. It
  now checks them, as it does when there's no exact match.
- The lock's temporary file gets a random name and `wx`: no planted link
  at a predictable name in a shared /tmp, and a crashed run's leftover
  under the same PID never reads as a held lock.
- runs <id> says SOURCE_FILE is to be replaced with the source's path.
- The README says the export command shows only where one exists, and
  that a copy of a source beside different helpers also needs --new-run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…its users

earlierRunHolding still skipped runs of another source, though findResume
and the import lock match on file and instance only. A custom-source
--new-run beside a built-in run of the same file got the generic "Fix them"
text instead of the run holding its users. It now matches any source.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…--json`

The README says --json carries the same detail as the human view, fixed
defaults included, but the serializer left them out. A source with none
gets an empty object.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The SIGINT handler kills the process after a short telemetry flush, so
run()'s finally doesn't always release the lock. The next import
reclaims it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An agent with only the CLI had no way to learn a source file's shape:
the `sources` footer and `--source` help didn't describe it, and every
load error linked to the old migration-tool's overview. All three now
link the README's Custom sources section.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nges

transformUsers calls postTransform synchronously, so an async hook's
changes after its first await landed once the user was already
normalized and validated. The only trace was a "Clerk won't store"
line for the column it meant to consume. A hook that returns a promise
now stops the import and names the source.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A throwing hook reached the global handler as `unexpected_error: boom`,
with nothing pointing at the source file or the user that tripped it.
It now reads `The "<key>" source's postTransform failed on row <n>: …`
and links the Custom sources docs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The README named postTransform and preTransform but not what they get,
what they return, or that postTransform must be synchronous. Spell out
both signatures, what happens when a hook is async or throws, and that
a transformer target outside Clerk's fields is only a rename. The
example now splits a full_name, the common case for a homegrown table.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
"Where each field lands" listed keys a built-in's postTransform consumes
(`name`, `salt`, `workosExternalId`) as if Clerk stored them. Copied into
a source you wrote, `full_name → name` showed with no warning and was
dropped. A built-in's such target is now marked as moved by the source;
a custom source's gets a warning that Clerk won't store it unless its
postTransform moves it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
resolveSource hashed the path before loadCustomSource checked it, so a
directory threw a raw EISDIR (exit 1, unexpected_error in agent mode)
ahead of the "is a directory, not a source file" usage error. Only a
file is hashed now.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The async-hook check used `instanceof Promise`, so a promise from
another library, or another realm, still slipped through and its
changes were lost. Any result with a callable `then` now stops the
import.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wrapping every postTransform throw in an uncoded CliError dropped the
code, so agent mode printed plain text instead of the JSON error. It also
swallowed Firebase's own refusal for hashes with no parameters, turning
its usage error (exit 2, Firebase guide) into exit 1 with the custom
sources docs. A CliError now passes through unchanged, and any other
throw is a usage error naming the source and row.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`clerk migrate sources <built-in>` said "the source moves it" for every
target that isn't a Clerk field, but Supabase's `deletedAt` and
`isAnonymous` only decide whether to skip the user and are then dropped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`clerk migrate sources ./<TAB>` and `--source ./<TAB>` completed nothing:
both suggest the built-in keys with NO_FILE_COMP, which turns off the
shell's file completion, though each also takes a path to a source you
wrote. The source keys now come back with the default directive, so the
shell still completes files. A positional now keeps its argument's
directive instead of always NO_FILE_COMP; every other argument still
returns NO_FILE_COMP, so nothing else changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The fish script registered `complete -c clerk -f` for every command and
dropped the directive line, so fish never completed a file path, even
where `__complete` returns DEFAULT: `clerk migrate sources ./<TAB>` and
`--source ./<TAB>`. The candidates now go through a condition, as Cobra's
fish script does: when none starts with what was typed and NO_FILE_COMP
is clear, the condition fails and fish falls back to files, the same as
bash.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
With `--source ./mine.ts` over a Supabase export, the raw rows were read
only when the source key was `supabase`, so the disabled-provider rejects
never ran: users whose only sign-in is a provider that's off in Clerk
were created with no way in, and the offer to turn it on was skipped.
The read now keys on the platform the file came from, as the Firebase
hash parameters do; `hashSource` is renamed `platform` to match.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…rote

With a source you wrote over an Auth0 or Auth.js export, the checks took
`socialProviders` from the custom entry, which rarely has one, so they
counted no providers and never offered to turn them on. A source without
its own now falls back to the export platform's.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…n't know

A source you wrote may map an export whose envelope names a platform
this CLI doesn't know, such as a file from a newer version. Without its
own `socialProviders`, the fallback to the platform's looked it up
anyway, and the import stopped on a raw "Source not found for key". The
fallback now applies only to a platform in the registry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…is unconfirmed

When `GET /v1/instance` fails, the lock's hash uses the key's stand-in
for the instance, so two different keys for one instance take different
locks. The README said a second import of the file into the same
instance is refused whatever else differs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The README said a second import of the same file into the same instance
is refused. Two imports that read the same stale lock can both remove it
and both proceed, as the comment in `acquireLockFile` already says.
Clerk still refuses the second create of any email, phone or username,
so the cost is failed lines, not duplicate users.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The README said that when Clerk doesn't confirm the instance, the lock's
hash uses a stand-in for the key instead. An import takes a lock under
its key as well as one under the instance whenever Clerk, `--app` or the
linked profile names it; only one whose instance nothing names holds the
key's lock alone, which a second key for that instance doesn't meet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The README's custom-source example maps `contact_email` to `email`
without saying that `email` is created as a verified primary address. A
reader copying it for a source with unconfirmed addresses would import
them verified. The line now says so, and where an unconfirmed one goes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The README says `preTransform` runs before the file is read. For JSON
input the loader parsed the file first, to spot an export envelope, so
a file the CLI's parser rejects (comments, trailing commas) stopped with
"is not valid JSON" before a source's own hook could parse it. When that
parse fails and the source has a `preTransform`, the hook now gets the
file; without one, the error stands.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The loader picks its reader from the import file's type, not from the
path a `preTransform` returns, so a file in another format, returned
without `data`, misparses. The README now says the file must be in the
same format as `fileType`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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