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/usr/bin/atuin

Magical shell history

From atuin 18.24.5-r0 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running atuin --help (exit 0). permalink

Magical shell history

Usage: atuin <COMMAND>

  search           Interactive history search
  output           Work with captured command output
  stats            Calculate statistics for your history
  history          Manipulate shell history
  wrapped          Show a fun, year-in-review recap of your shell history

AI:
  ai               Run the AI assistant
  threads          Search, read and resume your coding agents' captured threads
  resume           Pick a captured coding-agent thread and resume it (short for atuin threads resume)
  mcp              Start an MCP server exposing history search to AI tools (stdio)

Sync & account:  Keep your history in sync across machines
  sync             Sync with the configured server
  login            Login to the configured server
  logout           Log out
  register         Register with the configured server
  status           Display the sync status
  account          Manage your sync account

Data:            Synced data beyond your shell history
  kv               Get or set small key-value pairs
  store            Manage the atuin data store
  dotfiles         List legacy synced dotfiles data
  scripts          Manage your scripts with Atuin

Setup:           Install, configure, and troubleshoot Atuin
  setup            Setup Atuin features
  init             Print Atuin's shell init script
  import           Import shell history from file
  doctor           Run the doctor to check for common issues
  config           Get, set, or print values in your atuin config file
  gen-completions  Generate shell completions

Advanced:
  key              Print the encryption key for transfer to another machine
  hook             Manage AI-agent shell hooks
  default-config   Print the default atuin configuration (config.toml)
  info             Information about Atuin data locations and ENV vars
  daemon           Manage the background daemon
  pty-proxy        PTY proxy for atuin
  contributors     List the people who have contributed to Atuin

  help             Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -h, --help     Print help
  -V, --version  Print version
Options (2)
OptionDescriptionSource
-h, --helpPrint helphelp
-V, --versionPrint versionhelp

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.