Slash commands not syncing to specific guilds in discord.py

Question

So I have a discord bot which overall functions correctly but the command sync behaves very strangely.

I've read that having the full global sync run in 'on_ready' is a bad idea and can get my bot rate limited, and that the alternative is to have a /sync function which exists only on a test server and will run the full tree.sync(). I've tried to implement this but for some reason I cannot get the /sync function to appear on my test server, and even worse for some reason my full global sync seems to be running anyway.

To test I have two different guilds, one of which is the main test guild that will be used for bot administration. Here's the relevant snippet of code:

# -- setup --
# create client
intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.message_content = True
client = discord.Client(intents=intents)
global_synced = False
tree = app_commands.CommandTree(client)

# -- events --
@client.event
async def on_ready():
    # sync commands
    await client.wait_until_ready()
    if(not global_synced):
        for g in guilds: 
            # Before I added this loop and following if statement I was getting a "403 Forbidden"
            # I guess the error was because the secondary guild doesn't have access to the
            # discord Object of the main guild? IDK
            if(g.id == TEST_GUILD_ID): 
                await tree.sync(guild=discord.Object(id=TEST_GUILD_ID))
                global_synced = True

# -- commands --
@tree.command(name = "run_bot", description="Runs the bot")
async def self(interaction: discord.Interaction):
    # this function is available to all guilds and runs the bot
    return

@tree.command(name = "sync", description="Syncs the bot commands", guild=discord.Object(id=TEST_GUILD_ID))
async def self(interaction: discord.Interaction):
    # this function is supposed to be available to only the main test server
    await client.wait_until_ready()
    await tree.sync()
    return

So here are my issues:

1. "/sync" is not appearing in my main test guild
2. "/run_bot" is appearing on my secondary test guild even though I explicitly said not to sync all?

I'm at a loss. I'm getting no errors and I've pored over the documentation but can't find an answer. Does it have something to do with asynchronous code (my ongoing nemesis)? Please help!

Answer 1

You missed out the copy global commands to the guild.

self.tree.copy_global_to(guild=guild)
await self.tree.sync(guild=guild)