Author here. Three months ago I posted a Show HN for yolobox [1] - a sandbox for running AI coding agents without them being able to nuke your home directory.

Since then I've been using it almost every day, which eventually meant wanting more than one agent running against the same project at the same time. This post is what I learned trying to make that work without it being a constant disaster.

The short version: git worktrees are the right Git abstraction and the wrong abstraction for this problem. The unit you want to fork is the developer, not the branch - full folder copy, its own Compose project, its own URL. yolobox now ships a fork subcommand that does this.

Happy to answer questions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46592344