What Does 'Worktree Agent' Mean?

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An AI coding agent assigned to its own isolated git worktree so it can make changes in parallel with other agents or the human developer without their file edits colliding.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"Spun up a worktree agent for the refactor so it wouldn't touch the files I was actively editing."

LORE & ORIGIN

Practical solution to the concurrency problem parallel agents create — multiple agents editing the same working directory at once would corrupt each other's changes, so each gets its own checkout.

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Related To:Parallel Agents Subagent

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