AI Systems Atlas

G-15Integrating Parallel Work

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Where two isolated agents’ branches meet — and who holds both intentions well enough to resolve them.

Key insight

Worktrees make isolation cheap, which is the easy half. The merge is the hard half, and it needs a role: one integrator holding both changes, rather than a conflict bounced between authors who have each seen only their own.

Failure mode

Handing a conflict back to the agent that wrote one side. It resolves in favour of its own branch, because its context contains no reason not to.

Further reading
RelatedWorktree parallelismSingle vs Multi-AgentParallel swarm

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