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 making Worktrunk excellent, and the biggest gap is understanding 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:

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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 worktrunk && wt config shell install

Shell integration allows commands to change directories.

Cargo:

cargo install worktrunk && wt config shell install

Windows

On Windows, wt defaults to Windows Terminal's command. 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 → Privacy & security → For developers → App Execution Aliases → disable "Windows Terminal") to use wt directly.

Arch Linux:

paru worktrunk-bin && 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↕  Remote⇅  Commit    Age   Message
@ feature-auth  +   –      +53                         0e631add  1d    Initial commit
^ main              ^⇡                         ⇡1      0e631add  1d    Initial commit

○ Showing 2 worktrees, 1 with changes, 1 column hidden

The @ marks the current worktree. + means uncommitted changes, ↕ 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 — squash, rebase onto main, fast-forward merge, clean up:

$ wt merge main
◎ Generating commit message and committing changes... (2 files, +53, no squashing needed)
  Add authentication module
✓ Committed changes @ a1b2c3d
◎ Merging 1 commit to main @ a1b2c3d (no rebase needed)
  * a1b2c3d Add authentication module
   auth.rs | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
   lib.rs  |  2 ++
   2 files changed, 53 insertions(+)
✓ Merged to main (1 commit, 2 files, +53)
◎ Removing feature-auth worktree & branch in background (same commit as main, _)
○ Switched to worktree for main @ repo

For parallel agents, create multiple worktrees and launch an agent in each:

wt switch -x claude -c feature-a -- 'Add user authentication'
wt switch -x claude -c feature-b -- 'Fix the pagination bug'
wt switch -x claude -c feature-c -- 'Write tests for the API'

The -x flag runs a command after switching; arguments after -- are passed to it. Configure post-start hooks to automate setup (install deps, start dev servers).

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
• Tell a friend about Worktrunk
• Open an issue — feedback, feature requests, even a small friction or imperfect user message, or a worktree pain not yet solved
• Share: X · Reddit · LinkedIn

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