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Baoyu Recommends AGENTS.md Rules to Clean Up Worktrees
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- Dotey
- What
- recommends adding rules to AGENTS.md requiring agents to clean up worktrees when tasks are complete
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Baoyu recommends adding a rule to AGENTS.md that requires agents to remove worktrees and their branches when tasks finish. The linked rule says to either merge the work or commit unmerged changes and tag them for archival before removal; the orchestrating subagent session is responsible for cleaning up worktrees it created.
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Baoyu (Dotey) recommends adding rules to AGENTS.md that require agents to remove worktrees and their branches when tasks finish, with cleanup assigned to the orchestrating subagent session that created them. The linked rule calls for preserving the work before removal: agents should either merge it or commit unmerged changes and tag them for archival.
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