managing-context-worktree

Git worktrees isolate unrelated work by spawning a separate working directory on a new branch. This Skill evaluates context similarity between tasks and automatically creates a worktree when it detects diverging scopes, keeping feature work organized without stashing.

Context similarity evaluation compares your new task against existing work to determine if they overlap. When tasks differ, the mechanism triggers conditional worktree creation, ensuring unrelated features or issue switches are reliably separated into isolated branches.

To create a git worktree, run the context-worktree.sh script with the create command and specify a branch name like -b feature/new. This sets up the worktree directory and automatically creates the branch for your isolated development context.

Git worktrees are ideal for diverging project tasks, new feature implementation, or scope changes where you need persistent isolated contexts. Unlike stashing, worktrees keep branches checked out simultaneously, allowing seamless context isolation without losing your working directory state.

No external dependencies are required. The Skill relies on standard git worktree commands and includes its own scripts to automate context evaluation, conditional branch creation, and clean-up, functioning independently within your existing git workflow.