Best approach to sync app-commands globally

[nttstar]

Hello author, I have a bot that is used on over 200K servers. What I want to do now is update the parameter definitions for some of my app commands or add a few app commands. Will the following code work, and is it the best approach?

My concerns are: 1) Will it be possible to update command descriptions and add new commands? 2) Will this cause the bot to start up much more slowly compared to when there is no self.tree.sync() if there're too many servers using this bot?

class MyClient(discord.AutoShardedClient):
    def __init__(self, *, intents: discord.Intents):
        super().__init__(intents=intents, shard_count=args.shard_count, shard_ids=local_shard_ids)
        self.tree = app_commands.CommandTree(self)
    async def setup_hook(self):
        await self.tree.sync()
        
client = MyClient(intents=intents)

@client.tree.command()
@app_commands.describe(
        idname='idname to save',
        image='id image',
        )
async def example_app_command(interaction: discord.Interaction, idname: str, image: discord.Attachment):
    pass

[ChesterWOV]

Hello there, it is not recommended that you sync automatically everytime the bots starts. You can choose to create a text command called sync that, well, syncs the app commands.

[ChesterWOV]

Don't think so.

[nttstar]

Many thanks!

[ChesterWOV]

No problem!

[nttstar]

So in that sync command, only one line code is enough?
await client.tree.sync()

[ChesterWOV]

Yeah, I think so.

[stijndcl]

Consider using Umbra's command from the discord.py help server: https://about.abstractumbra.dev/discord.py/2023/01/29/sync-command-example.html

[ChesterWOV]

Consider using Umbra's command from the discord.py help server: https://about.abstractumbra.dev/discord.py/2023/01/29/sync-command-example.html

Ah yes I also thought so, but I thought it would make things too complicated but well, I guess it's good for reference