Sync Flow

Complete reference for how kst sync resolves sources, discovers skills and MCP files, diffs against the lock, and writes to agent environments.

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Top-Level Pipeline

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Source Materialization

Shared by both skills and MCPs.

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Skills Sync Flow

Discovery

Target Selection

Hash, Diff & Copy

Stale Removal

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MCP Sync Flow

File Resolution

Parse, Hash & Diff

Merge Into Agent Settings

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Scope & Destinations

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Dry Run

--dry-run skips all writes. Actions report would_install, would_update, would_remove. Lock file is never modified.