August 2026: Worktrunk was released at the start of the year, and has quickly become the most popular git worktree manager. It's built with love (there's no slop!). Please let me know any frictions at all; I'm intensely focused on continuing to make Worktrunk excellent, and the biggest help is folks posting problems they perceive.
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.
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. Commands that take a branch also accept the path of the worktree it is checked out in.
Core commands:
- Hooks — run commands on create, pre-merge, post-merge, etc
- LLM commit messages — generate commit messages from diffs
- Merge workflow — squash, rebase, merge, clean up in one command
- Interactive picker — browse worktrees with live diff and log previews
- Copy build caches — skip cold starts by sharing
target/,node_modules/, etc between worktrees wt list --full— CI status and AI-generated summaries per branch- PR checkout —
wt switch pr:123to jump straight to a PR's branch - Dev server per worktree —
hash_porttemplate filter gives each worktree a unique port - Aliases & per-branch variables — custom
wt <name>commands and branch-scoped state for hook templates - ...and lots more
Multiple parallel agents, same simple commands:
Install
Homebrew (macOS & Linux):
brew install worktrunk && wt config shell install
Shell integration allows commands to change directories.
Cargo:
cargo install worktrunk && wt config shell install
Windows. wt defaults to Windows Terminal's command, so Winget additionally installs Worktrunk as git-wt to avoid the conflict:
winget install max-sixty.worktrunk
git-wt config shell install
Alternatively, disable Windows Terminal's alias (Settings → Apps → Advanced app settings → App execution aliases → "Terminal"/"Terminal Preview") to use wt directly.
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Arch Linux:
sudo pacman -S worktrunk && wt config shell install
Conda / Pixi (community-maintained feedstock):
conda install -c conda-forge worktrunk && wt config shell install
Or with Pixi: pixi global install worktrunk && wt config shell install.
Quick start
Create a worktree for a new feature:
$ wt switch --create feature-auth
✓ Created branch feature-auth from main and worktree @ ~/repo.feature-auth
This creates a new branch and worktree, then switches to it. Do your work, then check all worktrees with wt list:
$ wt list
Branch Status HEAD± main↕ main…± Remote⇅ Commit Age Message
@ feature-auth + ↑ +27 -8 ↑1 +31 4bc72dc 2h Add authenticati…
^ main ^⇡ ⇡1 0e631ad 1d Initial commit
○ Showing 2 worktrees, 1 with changes, 1 ahead, 1 column hidden
The @ marks the current worktree. + means staged changes, ↑1 means 1 commit ahead of main, ⇡ means unpushed commits.
When done, either:
PR workflow — commit, push, open a PR, merge via GitHub/GitLab, then clean up:
wt step commit # commit staged changes
gh pr create # or glab mr create
wt remove # after PR is merged
*Local merge