/sync-check — is the sync between my machines healthy

One command answers "did it arrive / are we syncing right now" across ALL Syncthing folders of this machine, without poking the REST API by hand. READ-ONLY, 0 tokens, portable (the API key is read from the local config → it works on any machine of the fleet).

Engine: $IMPORTS_ROOT/sync_check/sync_check.ps1 (git-backed in _imports, synced through claude-imports). It now also includes Device ID drift detection (live myID vs machines.json → RED on a mismatch — it would have caught the 2026-06-25 incident).

Cleaning up sync-conflict files (when the report says "WARN sync-conflict files: N"): python $IMPORTS_ROOT/sync_check/resolve_conflicts.py (dry-run) → for each conflict it compares against the live file: --quarantine SAFELY moves conflicts of the live tree into _sync-conflict-archive\<date>\ (a move, not a delete → recoverable; orphans with no live twin are left alone), --apply deletes only proven subsets. Already-archived files and .stversions are excluded. Canon: the sync-loss incident runbook, §6.

Run

powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "$IMPORTS_ROOT/sync_check\sync_check.ps1"

How to read the output

• PEERS — how many peers are connected. 0 connected = sync is DEAD (the machine slept / Syncthing is stuck) → start the watchdog syncthing_watchdog.ps1 (see the migration runbook, the on-wake task SyncthingWatchdogOnWake).
• per folder OK / WARN / RED:
  • OK + NEED=0 = the folder is in sync, everything arrived.
  • WARN + NEED>0 = still downloading (fine briefly; if it is stuck, look at the peers).
  • RED = state=error or folder errors → investigate (permissions / disk / conflict).
• sync-conflict files — a separate WARN (it does not turn the report RED). Their growth means two machines are editing the same file (e.g. settings.json) → decide "fresher beats older" (the operator decides) and clean up *.sync-conflict-*.
• EXIT 0 = all green; EXIT 2 = something is RED.

When to call it

• The operator asks "did it reach the hub / the Mac?", "is sync alive?".
• BEFORE relying on a fresh file from another machine ("not found" ≠ "does not exist" — it may still be in transit; memory deterministic-script-gotchas).
• AFTER a sync incident (like the nested-folder D2 case of 2026-06-24/25) — to confirm the bridge is back.
• Each machine runs its own check (the report is local); to compare the whole fleet, ask every machine via /inbox or the bus.

Boundaries

• Read-only: it fixes nothing and moves nothing. Healing a stuck sync is the watchdog's job (separate).
• It only sees what the local Syncthing daemon knows; if the daemon is not running it says so (RED).

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