Why coding agents should work on a copy of your repo
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A coding agent should work on its own copy of your repository, on its own branch, so that nothing it does touches your working files until you have read the diff and merged it yourself. Git worktrees are the simplest way to do this: one repository, several separate working directories, each on a di…
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- 2026-09-30 01:53 · DEV Community — AI
Why coding agents should work on a copy of your repo