AI Systems Atlas

G-07Worktree Parallelism

/coding-agents/worktrees

Each agent works in its own git worktree; merge conflicts are surfaced by git, not by luck.

Step-by-step walkthrough4 steps
  1. Each agent gets a real checkout — no shared files, no stepping on edits.
  2. True filesystem isolation: each can run its own tests, its own builds.
  3. B and C touched the same module — and git says so, loudly, at merge.
  4. Conflicts surfaced by tooling beat conflicts discovered in production.
Key insight

Filesystem isolation makes parallel agents boring in the best way — and routes their disagreements through tooling built to resolve them.

Failure mode

Parallel agents in one working directory: silent overwrites, corrupted builds, and no record of who changed what.

Further reading
RelatedSingle vs Multi-AgentParallel swarm

Elsewhere in the atlas

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