Tool Reference
Published 10 September 2026
Concepts
- Workspace: Calling
load_projectloads a Flyway project into a workspace, identified by aworkspaceId. Only one workspace is loaded at a time; loading a new project discards artifacts and results from the previous one. If you've only changed the project's toml configuration, callreload_projectinstead, which preserves existing artifacts. - Diffs and artifacts: Each
create_diff_*tool computes the difference between two states of your project (for example, the development database and the schema model) and returns adiffId. Other tools then consume thatdiffId, together with a list of change IDs, to apply or generate something from the selected differences. - Selecting changes: Tools that accept a
changeslist of IDs also accept a single*to select every change from a diff. You can't mix*with specific IDs. If a selected change depends on another change that wasn't selected, the dependency is included automatically.
Tools
| Tool | Toolsets | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
load_project |
develop_migrations, develop_state |
Loads a Flyway project into a new workspace. |
reload_project |
develop_migrations, develop_state |
Reloads an already-loaded project from disk, preserving existing artifacts. |
create_schema_model_checkpoint |
develop_migrations |
Captures a checkpoint of the schema model for use as a baseline in a three-sided development diff. |
create_diff_schema_model |
develop_migrations, develop_state |
Diffs the development database against the project's schema model. |
update_schema_model |
develop_migrations, develop_state |
Applies selected changes from a schema model diff to the schema model files. |
create_diff_migrations |
develop_migrations |
Diffs the schema model against the current migration scripts (via the shadow environment). |
generate_migrations |
develop_migrations |
Generates migration scripts from a migrations diff. |
review_code |
develop_migrations |
Runs code review against a single migration script and reports the rule violations found. |
create_diff_development |
develop_migrations, develop_state |
Diffs the schema model against the development database, in the direction needed to update the database. |
update_development |
develop_migrations, develop_state |
Applies selected changes from a development diff to the development database. |
get_diff_details |
develop_migrations, develop_state |
Returns the unified diff text for a single changed object within any diff. |
load_project
Loads a Flyway project into a workspace. Required before any other tool can be used.
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
projectFolder |
Yes | Absolute path to the directory containing the project's flyway.toml. |
Returns a workspaceId, used by all subsequent tool calls.
reload_project
Reloads a project from disk for an existing workspace, without discarding previously computed artifacts. Prefer this
over load_project when you've only edited the project's toml files.
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
workspaceId |
Yes | Workspace ID returned by load_project. |
create_schema_model_checkpoint
Captures a checkpoint of the current schema model. The checkpoint can be used as input to create_diff_development
to categorize changes by origin (schema model vs. checkpoint) as a three-sided diff.
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
workspaceId |
Yes | Workspace ID from load_project. |
Returns a checkpointId, for use as an input to create_diff_development.
create_diff_schema_model
Diffs the development database against the project's schema model. Feeds into update_schema_model. Only one such diff
is stored per workspace at a time.
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
workspaceId |
Yes | Workspace ID from load_project. |
Returns a diffId and a list of selectable differences.
update_schema_model
Updates the schema model files using selected changes from a schema model diff.
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
workspaceId |
Yes | Workspace ID from load_project. |
diffId |
Yes | Diff ID from create_diff_schema_model. |
changes |
Yes | List of change IDs to apply, or * for all changes. |
Returns the list of schema model files that were updated, relative to the project's schema model folder.
create_diff_migrations
Diffs the schema model against the current state of the migration scripts, built via the shadow environment. Feeds into
generate_migrations. Only one such diff is stored per workspace at a time.
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
workspaceId |
Yes | Workspace ID from load_project. |
Returns a diffId and a list of selectable differences.
generate_migrations
Generates migration scripts from a migrations diff. Scripts are named automatically using the project's configured naming convention.
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
workspaceId |
Yes | Workspace ID from load_project. |
migrationsDiffId |
Yes | Diff ID from create_diff_migrations. |
changes |
Yes | List of change IDs to include, or * for all changes. |
description |
No | Description used in the generated migration script filenames. |
Returns the migration folder path, the list of generated files, and any warnings raised during generation.
review_code
Runs code review against a single migration script and reports the rule violations found.
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
workspaceId |
Yes | Workspace ID from load_project. |
file |
Yes | Migration script to review. Absolute, or relative to the project root. |
Returns the absolute path of the reviewed file, the list of issues (rule violations) found, the definitions of the
violated rules, and total_rules_checked (the number of rules evaluated).
create_diff_development
Diffs the schema model against the development database, describing the changes needed to bring the development database
in line with the schema model. Feeds into update_development. Only one such diff is stored per workspace at a time.
If a checkpointId is supplied (from create_schema_model_checkpoint), a three-sided diff is performed instead: the
schema model as it was at the checkpoint is compared against both the current schema model and the development
database, classifying each change by how the schema model has moved since the checkpoint (new, existing, missing, or
conflict). This distinguishes changes that predate the checkpoint from ones introduced since—for example, changes a
git pull brought in versus your own local changes.
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
workspaceId |
Yes | Workspace ID from load_project. |
checkpointId |
No | Checkpoint ID from create_schema_model_checkpoint, to enable a three-sided diff. |
Returns a diffId and a list of selectable differences. When checkpointId is supplied, also returns
threeSidedDifferences—the same differences, each tagged with how the schema model has moved since the checkpoint
(new, existing, missing, or conflict).
update_development
Applies selected changes from a development diff to the development database.
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
workspaceId |
Yes | Workspace ID from load_project. |
diffId |
Yes | Diff ID from create_diff_development. |
changes |
Yes | List of change IDs to apply, or * for all changes. |
Returns changesDeployed (a boolean indicating whether a deployment action was performed against development—this
may be false if no changes were selected) and the list of objects updated in the development database.
get_diff_details
Returns the unified diff text for a single changed object within a diff previously created by any create_diff_* tool,
in the same workspace.
| Parameter | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
workspaceId |
Yes | Workspace ID from load_project. |
diffId |
Yes | Diff ID from any create_diff_* tool. |
changeId |
Yes | ID of the changed object to fetch details for. |
Returns the unified diff text for the requested change.
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