Worktrunk


> July 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:

!Worktrunk 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.

> Start with the core commands

Core commands:

wt switch feat

cd ../repo.feat

wt switch -c -x claude feat

git worktree add -b feat ../repo.feat &&
cd ../repo.feat &&
claude

wt remove

cd ../repo &&
git worktree remove ../repo.feat &&
git branch -d feat

wt list

git worktree list

> 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
• <code class="ra0-md-code">wt list --full</code> — CI status and AI-generated summaries per branch
• PR checkout — wt switch pr:123 to jump straight to a PR's branch
• Dev server per worktree — hash_port template filter gives each worktree a unique port
• Aliases & per-branch variables — custom wt commands and branch-scoped state for hook templates
• ...and lots more

Multiple parallel agents, same simple commands:

!Worktrunk omnibus demo: multiple Claude agents in Zellij tabs with hooks, LLM commits, and merge workflow

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

winget install max-sixty.worktrunk
git-wt config shell install

sudo pacman -S worktrunk && wt config shell install

conda install -c conda-forge 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 <code class="ra0-md-code">wt list</code>:

$ wt list
  Branch        Status        HEAD±    main↕     main…±  Remote⇅  Commit    Age   Message
@ feature-auth  +   ↑      +27   -8   ↑1       +31                4bc72dc9  2h    Add authenticat…
^ main              ^⇡                                    ⇡1      0e631add  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 — 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: <code class="ra0-md-code">wt switch</code>, <code class="ra0-md-code">wt list</code>, <code class="ra0-md-code">wt merge</code>, <code class="ra0-md-code">wt remove</code>
• Set up hooks for automated setup
• Explore LLM commit messages, [interactive

picker](https://worktrunk.dev/switch/#interactive-picker), Claude Code integration, [CI
status & PR links](https://worktrunk.dev/list/#ci-status)

• Browse tips & patterns for recipes: aliases, dev servers, databases, agent handoffs, and more
• Extending Worktrunk — customize workflows with hooks & aliases
• Run wt --help or wt --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
• @DevOpsToolbox's video on Worktrunk
• 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

> ### 📚 Full documentation at worktrunk.dev 📚

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