[Bug]: scripts sync only manually

[jaimep12]

What did you expect to happen?

I expect that when I edit a script on machine A, changes show on machine B.

What happened?

I have to run atuin sync.

Here is my daemon config:

[daemon]
enabled = true
autostart = true
sync_frequency = 10

I also checked if daemon is started. I can see it in the process list on both machines.

Atuin doctor output

{
  "atuin": {
    "version": "18.13.6",
    "commit": "e0d97af547ccbe4bcfdae64b97746ac2eecdf6fb",
    "sync": {
      "auth_state": "Self-hosted (authenticated)",
      "records": true,
      "auto_sync": true,
      "last_sync": "2026-04-05 20:02:43.003822078 +00:00:00"
    },
    "sqlite_version": "3.46.0"
  },
  "shell": {
    "name": "bash",
    "default": "bash",
    "plugins": [
      "atuin",
      "blesh"
    ],
    "preexec": "blesh-0.4.0-devel4+b99cadb"
  },
  "system": {
    "os": "Fedora Linux",
    "arch": "x86_64",
    "version": "43",
    "disks": [
      {
        "name": "/dev/mapper/rootvg-root",
        "filesystem": "xfs"
      },
      {
        "name": "/dev/sdb1",
        "filesystem": "xfs"
      },
      {
        "name": "/dev/sda1",
        "filesystem": "xfs"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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[BinaryMuse]

Scripts are stored in the same record store as history entries; if one syncs, they should both sync.

Is the issue that scripts aren't syncing at all, or that they don't sync after the 10 minute timer, or that they should sync right away?

[jaimep12]

Thank you for your reply.

When reading the documentation, the sync_frequency for daemon is in seconds. And my other sync_frequency in the main config (not in [daemon]) is set to 5m.

The scripts are not syncing after 10 seconds and not after 5 minutes. They only sync, when I do a manual atuin sync on other machine. Thus it looks the new script is synced to the server, but on other machine only commands are synced until I do a manual sync. Then the script is updated.

Steps to reproduce:

1. setup self host and login on machine A and B
2. update script test-script on machine A
3. wait for 10 seconds
4. on machine B: atuin script get test-script (still old script)
5. wait for 5 minutes
6. on machine B: atuin script get test-script (still old script)
7. on machine B: atuin sync
8. on machine B: atuin script get test-script (updated script)