Atuin History Cleanup

Overview

Audit first, delete second. Use the bundled script to summarize duplicate pressure and high-confidence typo-like retries. For typo cleanup, prefer the transactional cleanup-typos command so the flow snapshots history.db, uploads the current host history store, deletes candidates, verifies the result, and rolls back automatically if verification fails.

Read references/atuin-cli.md when you need the exact delete, dedup, or prune behavior.

Use When

• Reviewing a noisy Atuin history.db before removing anything.
• Estimating how much atuin history dedup would remove while still keeping the newest repeated entries.
• Looking for typo-like retries such as gti status followed by git status.
• Running a transactional typo cleanup with backup, verification, and rollback.
• Rechecking an Atuin cleanup plan without mutating the database directly.

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