Worktrunk
October 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 & copy-on-write build caches.
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 gives 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.
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 |
|
| Clean up | wt remove |
|
| 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 streaming CI status and diff, log, PR and comment previews
- Share build caches — ten worktrees get
target/,node_modules/, etc without building or copying them (on APFS, btrfs, and XFS) 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 installShell integration allows commands to change directories.
Cargo:
cargo install worktrunk && wt config shell installWindows & other
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 installAlternatively, 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 installConda / Pixi (community-maintained feedstock):
conda install -c conda-forge worktrunk && wt config shell installOr 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-authThis 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 authenticatio…
^ main ^⇡ ⇡1 0e631ad 1d Initial commit
○ Showing 2 worktrees, 1 with changes, 1 ahead, hidden: PathThe @ 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 mergedLocal 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 @ ~/repoFor 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 hooks for automated setup
- Explore LLM commit messages, interactive picker, Claude Code integration, CI status & PR links
- Browse tips & patterns for recipes: aliases, dev servers, databases, agent handoffs, and more
- Extending Worktrunk — customize workflows with hooks & aliases
- Watch @DevOpsToolbox's video on Worktrunk
- Run
wt --helporwt <command> --helpfor quick CLI 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
Running the tests
cargo testThe shell integration tests need bash, zsh, fish, nushell, and pwsh, plus jq:
cargo test --test integration --features shell-integration-tests📚 Full documentation at worktrunk.dev 📚
