Author: Chiru Boggavarapu This post walks through a proper migration workflow for local development using SurrealKit , an official tool from the SurrealDB team that handles schema sync, rollouts, seeding, and testing. If you've spent any time working with SurrealDB, you know that with great flexibility comes the responsibility of managing your schema carefully. You're iterating quickly, adding tables, refining field definitions, and removing what you no longer need, and before long your local database can drift out of sync with what your code expects. What is SurrealKit? SurrealKit is a CLI tool that manages your SurrealDB schema through .surql files. You define your schema as files, and SurrealKit keeps your database in sync with them. It has two main modes: Sync : a fast, declarative approach for local and dev environments. Your files are the source of truth. Add something and it gets created, change it and it gets updated, remove it and it gets deleted.…