Git worktrees are the poor man's sandbox for coding agents
zeeg · x · 2026-10-29
Developer zeeg argues that git worktrees are "the poor man's sandbox": when you can't afford real sandboxed environments, multiple worktrees of the same repo give each AI coding agent its own isolated checkout directory, so parallel agents can make changes without stepping on each other — a lightweight isolation pattern for agent-driven development.
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