diff --git a/.changeset/cli-pg-migrations-in-npm-tarball.md b/.changeset/cli-pg-migrations-in-npm-tarball.md
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index 0000000000..3507139700
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@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+"@runfusion/fusion": patch
+---
+
+summary: Fix npm-installed CLI crashing at startup because PostgreSQL migrations were missing from the published package.
+category: fix
+dev: "tsup stages packages/core/src/postgres/migrations into dist/migrations, but the package files globs (dist/**/*.js, *.d.ts, maps, named dirs) matched no .sql file, so npm pack stripped every migration from the tarball. Installed CLIs failed schema init with ENOENT dist/migrations/0000_initial.sql and the dashboard supervisor crash-looped. Added dist/migrations/** to files; npm pack --dry-run now lists all 21 migration files. Sibling of the desktop staging fix 6e5bb5d3d."
diff --git a/packages/cli/package.json b/packages/cli/package.json
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--- a/packages/cli/package.json
+++ b/packages/cli/package.json
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
     "dist/**/*.d.ts",
     "dist/**/*.d.ts.map",
     "dist/**/*.js.map",
+    "dist/migrations/**",
     "dist/client/**",
     "dist/desktop/**",
     "dist/pi-claude-cli/**",