The daily loop

Four commands cover almost everything you do after the initial setup.

Command	When you run it
agentsync apply	After editing your source — push changes to agents.
agentsync status	”What’s out of sync?” — a summary across all agents.
agentsync diff	”Show me exactly what changed.” Secrets are redacted.
agentsync reconcile	An agent edited its config — merge or override the drift.

A typical session

After an agent (or you) edited a native file out from under agentsync:

agentsync status              # spot the drift
agentsync diff claude         # inspect it (resolved secrets are masked)
agentsync reconcile           # interactively resolve

Inside reconcile

For each drifting item, agentsync shows the source value, the on-disk value, and a menu:

~/.claude/settings.json#$.permissions.bash[2]   (drift)
  source:      "Bash(git push:*)"
  destination: "Bash(git push:*) Bash(npm publish:*)"

  [w]rite-back   [o]verride   [s]kip   [i]gnore   [d]iff   [q]uit

Key	Action
w	Adopt the destination edit into your source (W = all).
o	Re-impose the source, discarding the edit (O = all).
i	Stop tracking this path (adds it to ~/.agentsync/ignore.toml).
s / q	Skip / quit.
d	Show a full diff for this item.

Write-back is secret-safe

When you [w]rite-back, agentsync re-references any resolved secret to its ${secret:…} form before persisting — and refuses the write entirely if a live cleartext credential would land in your source. See Secrets and the security model.

Scripting it

For non-interactive runs (cron, CI, a update --apply), drive reconcile with flags instead of the menu:

Flag	Behavior
--auto-writeback	Adopt every destination edit.
--auto-override	Re-impose source everywhere, discarding edits.
--auto-safe	Only auto-resolve changes that can’t lose work (converged, pending).

agentsync reconcile --auto-safe

--auto-safe is the conservative default for automation: it converges the no-risk cases and leaves anything that could discard work for a human.

What the drift classes mean clean, pending, drift, converged, conflict, new, foreign-collision, orphan… all nine, defined.