keybase fs out of sync and some files are missing

(or maybe I don't understand how this is supposed to work).
I have two computers, "new-host-8" (don't ask) and "vijayps-macbook"

new-host-8:vijayp vijayp$ find /keybase/private/vijayp | wc -l
3075
vijayps-MacBook:vijayp vijayp$ find /keybase/private/vijayp | wc -l
1761

Diffing the files:

new-host-8:vijayp vijayp$ find /keybase/private/vijayp >/tmp/a
new-host-8:vijayp vijayp$ ssh vijayps-MacBook find /keybase/private/vijayp | sort > /tmp/b
Password:
new-host-8:vijayp vijayp$ find /keybase/private/vijayp | sort >/tmp/a
new-host-8:vijayp vijayp$ diff /tmp/{a,b}

shows legitimate file differences.

I killed and restarted all daemons on my macbook, but those files are still not showing up. Any other suggestions? They seem to be showing up on my desktop, but now I'm wondering whether they're actually in cache or there for real. Maybe I should reinstall everything and see?

Reproduce the discrepancy by running find /keybase/private/vijayp on both new-host-8 and vijayps-MacBook, then compare the sorted results with diff. Check whether the missing files are only cached on one machine or are absent from the synchronized filesystem; done means the cause is identified and both hosts report the expected files consistently.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.