Rift: Better Alternative to Git Worktrees

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  3. opencode

    The open source coding agent.

    Brought to you by the infamous creator of OpenCode, who will exfiltrate all your data, then feign ignorance:

    https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/10416

  4. agentbox

    Run multiple agents in parallel, with a single command, on your PC, self-hosted or in the cloud (by madarco)

    you are right, I've experimented with cp -a on macOS as well for https://github.com/madarco/agentbox and in the end found it's actually faster to use worktrees inside docker containers while mounting your .git repo inside them.

    Then after the node_modules (or apt packages) are installed, take a docker commit snapshot.

    Now I have truly isolated parallel workspaces in <10s.

    Also the system was easy to adapt to cloud environments as well so now I have Hetzner, Vercel, Daytona as well (using their native snapshotting systems for fast boot after the initial setup)

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