Git worktrees are not an isolation boundary for coding agents

·Hacker News··

Most tools that run AI coding agents in parallel give each one a git worktree. A worktree shares refs, config, stash and hooks with your real repository. Paste-and-run repros showing an agent can execute code in your main repo and rewrite your commit identity, plus benchmarks showing a properly isolated clone costs the same.

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