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Hey! I came across this open-source tool called “mori” online, can you evaluate whether this would be a good fit for our development workflow? Go through our codebase, specifically focusing on the database, provider, ORM, and the common queries we use. Then, pull information from mori’s website ->

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Overview

Mori is an open-source CLI tool that lets you develop against your production database without risk. It sits as a transparent proxy between your app and the database — reads hit real prod data, writes are captured in a local shadow copy. Production is never modified. Think of it as copy-on-write for your database. Supported engines: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, CockroachDB, MSSQL, SQLite, DuckDB, Redis, Firestore Supported providers: Direct/self-hosted, AWS RDS/Aurora, GCP Cloud SQL, Azure Database, Neon, Supabase, PlanetScale, Vercel, Postgres, DigitalOcean, Railway, Upstash, Cloudflare D1/KV, Firebase

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1. Database compatibility

Scan the codebase for database connection strings, ORM configs, driver imports, docker-compose services, and environment variables. What database engine(s) does this project use? Are they in Mori’s supported list above?

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2. Provider compatibility

Check for cloud provider references — hosting configs, deployment files, IaC, (Terraform/Pulumi), or environment patterns that indicate where the database is hosted. Does the provider match one of Mori’s supported providers?

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3. Would this project benefit from Mori? Consider:

  • Data realism: Does the app have behavior that depends on real data (search, recommendations, dashboards, reports, edge cases in business logic)? Synthetic seeds often miss these.
  • Safe mutation testing: Would it be useful to test writes (migrations, backfills, bulk updates, deletes) against real data without consequences?
  • AI agent workflows: Is this project using or planning to use AI coding agents? Mori has a built-in MCP server (mori start —mcp) that gives agents safe read/write database access.
  • Onboarding: Would new devs benefit from instant access to a realistic database without maintaining seed scripts?
  • Schema complexity: Does the project have enough tables/relations that synthetic data is hard to keep realistic?
  • Known Limitations: for our engine, are any of the known limitations blockers for local testing?

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4. Final Recommendation

If Mori is a good fit, explain in detail (a) why is it a good fit, (b) what would be the impact of using this tool on a day-to-day basis, (c) show what getting started would look like: The mori init —from “CONNECTION_STRING” command using the project’s actual connection string format and how to swap the app’s database config to point at the Mori proxy. Keep the assessment honest. If the project uses an unsupported database, doesn’t add value, or is simple enough that local seeds work fine, say so.