Re:Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine
by orbis-tertius on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:53AM
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I love Atuin, but have some reservations about a shared server keeping all my shell history and agent sessions. Am I being too paranoid and missing out on convenience?
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Re:Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine
by dietr1ch on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:02AM
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Same, I really wanted to share history, but when I realised I was going to need to send things to a remote server I instead wrote a tiny script to search through backups that are shared across machines by Syncthing.
I just search over $BACKUPS/*/latest/local/share/fish/fish_history with grep and skim
Re:Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine
by orbis-tertius on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:16AM
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Nice solution
Re:Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine
by forsalebypwner on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @01:34PM
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Atuin offers a self-hosted backend server for syncing, so you don't need to trust anybody
Re:Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine
by dietr1ch on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:10PM
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It's centralized, which is annoying unless you can trust A machine you own to be up and reachable by all others all of the time.
Re:Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine
by turbocon on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:05AM
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Atuin is open source, you can just host your own server?
Re:Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine
by orbis-tertius on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:08AM
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Fair enough, I missed that. Will give it a try!
Re:Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine
by aaronax on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:07AM
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It is encrypted client side. Or you can run your own server.
> Am I being too paranoid and missing out on convenience?
No, I'd say it is more-so a lack of reading the article that is causing you to miss out.
Re:Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine
by orbis-tertius on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:09AM
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I did read the article but missed that. Thanks for the info, will give it a try :)
Re:Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine
by totetsu on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:18AM
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I cant get used to it taking over the entire screen when scrolling history
Re:Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine
by rao-v on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @11:24AM
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I faced this too! Turned out it’s an easy config change to limit to height of your choice