Worktrunk

January 2026: Worktrunk was released over the holidays, and lots of folks seem to be using it. It's built with love (there's no slop!). If social proof is helpful: I also created PRQL (10k stars) and am a maintainer of Xarray (4k stars), Insta, & Numbagg. Please let me know any frictions at all; I'm intensely focused on Worktrunk's excellence, and the biggest gap is how others experience using it.

Worktrunk is a CLI for git worktree management, designed for running AI agents in parallel.

Worktrunk's three core commands make worktrees as easy as branches. Plus, Worktrunk has a bunch of quality-of-life features to simplify working with many parallel changes, including hooks to automate local workflows.

Scaling agents becomes trivial. A quick demo:

📚 Full documentation at worktrunk.dev 📚

Context: git worktrees

AI agents like Claude Code and Codex can handle longer tasks without supervision, such that it's possible to manage 5-10+ in parallel. Git's native worktree feature give each agent its own working directory, so they don't step on each other's changes.

But the git worktree UX is clunky. Even a task as small as starting a new worktree requires typing the branch name three times: git worktree add -b feat ../repo.feat, then cd ../repo.feat.

Worktrunk makes git worktrees as easy as branches

Worktrees are addressed by branch name; paths are computed from a configurable template.

Start with the core commands

Core commands:

Task	Worktrunk	Plain git
Switch worktrees	wt switch feat	cd ../repo.feat
Create + start Claude	wt switch -c -x claude feat	git worktree add -b feat ../repo.feat && \ cd ../repo.feat && \ claude
Clean up	wt remove	cd ../repo && \ git worktree remove ../repo.feat && \ git branch -d feat
List with status	wt list	git worktree list (paths only)

Workflow automation:

Expand into the more advanced commands as needed

• Hooks — run commands on create, pre-merge, post-merge, etc
• LLM commit messages — generate commit messages from diffs via llm
• Merge workflow — squash, rebase, merge, clean up in one command
• ...and lots more

A demo with some advanced features:

Install

Homebrew (macOS & Linux):

brew install max-sixty/worktrunk/wt && wt config shell install

Shell integration allows commands to change directories.

Cargo:

cargo install worktrunk && wt config shell install

Next steps

• Learn the core commands: wt switch, wt list, wt merge, wt remove
• Set up project hooks for automated setup
• Explore LLM commit messages, fzf-like selector, Claude Code integration, CI status & PR links
• Run wt --help or wt <command> --help for quick CLI reference

Further reading

• Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding — Anthropic's official guide, including the worktree pattern
• Shipping faster with Claude Code and Git Worktrees — incident.io's workflow for parallel agents
• Git worktree pattern discussion — Community discussion in the Claude Code repo
• git-worktree documentation — Official git reference

Contributing

• ⭐ Star the repo
• Open an issue — feedback, feature requests, even a small friction or imperfect user message, or a worktree pain not yet solved
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📚 Full documentation at worktrunk.dev 📚