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Featured · July 28, 20262 Min Read

Run CLI Agents In Parallel With Git Worktrees

Two agents sharing one working tree is a stash fight waiting to happen. Here is the model we use instead.

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The case for building around the CLIs you already use instead of wrapping one provider's chat in an Electron shell.

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Closing a window should never kill a three-hour agent run. The trick is who owns the PTY, and it is not the UI.

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Tabs full of agents are useful until they need to coordinate. How orchestration protocol v2 adds ownership, gates, and a real coordinator.

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Hitting a provider limit mid-run is the worst way to learn your quota. We put Claude, Codex, Kimi, Grok, Cursor, and more in the status bar.

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We did not want to invent another agent protocol. If it runs in a terminal, it runs in Alera - and the big ones get first-class treatment.

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Five agents in parallel and the fans spin up. The Resource Manager names the culprit per tab - including the time it blamed us, 26 times over.

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Every new worktree needs the same ritual: copy the .env, install dependencies, bootstrap. We made the repo describe it once.

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