Worktrunk
March 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.
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) |
Expand into the more advanced commands as needed
Workflow automation:
- 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 - ...and lots more
A demo with some advanced features: