Git Worktrees: The Safe Way to Run Multiple AI Coding Agents in One Repo
draginol · x · 2026-11-08
The Clairvoyance team breaks down why multiple AI agents sharing one working tree cause silent disasters (one agent's git stash can hide another's in-progress refactor) and how Git worktrees solve it.
- Worktrees: separate checkouts of the same repo on their own branches, sharing one .git object store — no duplicated history, isolated edits, merged like normal branches.
- Convention: agents left to pick their own paths scatter worktrees across drive roots and temp folders; Clairvoyance standardizes them under the repo's .git-worktrees/ directory.
- One command gives an agent a sandbox: git worktree add .git-worktrees/ada -b agent/ada.
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