---
type: concept
title: "Parallel Agentic Coding"
description: "Dispatching agents to background tasks in isolated git worktrees, each fed repo context and returning a reviewable PR."
tags: [ai-coding, git-worktree, orchestration, parallel, worktrees, throughput]
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created: 2026-07-21
updated: 2026-07-21
---

# Parallel Agentic Coding

Parallel agentic coding is running many coding agents at the same time, each on its own task in its own isolated copy of the codebase, so you multiply throughput instead of waiting on one agent at a time. The whole point is output: "why not go for parallel agents to 10x your output or even beyond that?" [0:00:32]. The catch, and the reason this needs real machinery, is collision: "it's also definitely not enough to just spin up five instances of Claude Code or Codex or whatever because... they're going to step on each other's toes."

## How it works

Isolation is the load-bearing primitive, and git worktrees supply it. Claude Code's "native support for Git work trees... allows us to very easily work with multiple copies of our codebase with claude at the exact same time," so "if we want to do parallel work with claude code and we don't want our different feature branches to be overriding each other's changes then we need local copies of our codebase." With guaranteed isolation you can even "use parallel agents to implement the same feature many different times. So we can pick the best implementation."

Orchestration is the other half. A harness like Archon dispatches worktree-isolated workflows fire-and-forget, "we can invoke a ton of workflows in parallel... use Archon to fix GitHub issues 5 7 8 9 10 and 11," each running as a background process, "because each of them suffix the branch with their name... there's going to be no conflicts." The pattern spans an autonomous fan-out draining a queue ("we have a parallel fan out of agents that are generating videos"), one agent per GitHub issue plus reviewers ("nine coding agent sessions... one per GitHub issue fix, one per review, and then our primary orchestrator"), and Stripe's fleet of "minions" where "a single engineer... oftentimes has many of these minions running at the exact same time." Cole frames this as the near future of the craft: "we're moving towards more of an agent manager interface where we can kick off agents in parallel to work on different features."

## Part of

- [Agentic Workflow Engineering](./agentic-workflow-engineering.md) - designing the reusable workflows that get dispatched in parallel.
- [AI Coding Harness](./ai-coding-harness.md) - the orchestration layer that manages many concurrent agent sessions.

## Contrasts with

- [Agent Teams](./agent-teams.md) - parallel agents that additionally talk to each other via a shared task list, versus fully independent fan-out.

## Related

- [Subagents Pattern](./subagents-pattern.md), [Context Isolation](./context-isolation.md) - spinning up parallel exploratory agents while keeping the main context clean.
- [Agent Client Protocol (ACP)](./agent-client-protocol.md) - makes it "easier for us to run a lot of code agents in parallel" behind one manager UI.
- [Code Review](./code-review.md) - each parallel branch returns a reviewable PR.
- [The Issue Is the Spec](./issue-is-the-spec.md), [PRP Framework](./prp-framework.md), [Slash Commands](./slash-commands.md), [The PIV Loop](./the-piv-loop.md) - how each dispatched agent gets a crisp, self-contained brief.
- [Agentic Coding](./agentic-coding.md) - the single-agent baseline this scales out.
- [Remote Agentic Coding](./remote-agentic-coding.md) - Kicking off a coding request from anywhere (phone, chat app) to an agent that runs entirely remotely in an isolated container, cloning the GitHub repo, branching, and deploying on its own.
- [Database Branching](./database-branching.md) - Giving each git worktree its own isolated copy of the database (a Neon branch or local SQLite DB) so parallel coding agents' schema and data changes don't collide - database isolation as the counterpart to worktree code isolation.

## Tools

- [Archon](../entities/tools/archon.md) - kicks off worktree-isolated workflows in parallel across many GitHub issues.
- [Claude Code](../entities/tools/claude-code.md) - native git worktree support and agent teams.
- [Codex](../entities/tools/codex.md), [Cursor](../entities/tools/cursor.md), [GitHub](../entities/tools/github.md) - branch-suffixed parallel fixes with no conflicts.
- [Pi Coding Agent](../entities/tools/pi-coding-agent.md) - reusable workflows executed in parallel via worktrees.
- [Omnigent](../entities/tools/omnigent.md) - Open-source meta-harness from Databricks that orchestrates multiple AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Pi) from one customizable AI layer with sandboxing, guardrails, and cross-device collaboration.
- [GitHub Actions](../entities/tools/github-actions.md) - GitHub's built-in CI/CD system that runs trigger-based workflows to invoke coding assistants in isolated, GitHub-hosted environments.

## Sources

- [Parallel Claude Code + Git Worktrees: This Setup Will Change How You Ship](../sources/parallel-claude-code-git-worktrees-this-setup-will-change-how-you-ship.md) - "[0:01:23] it's also definitely not enough to just spin up five instances of Claude Code or Codex or whatever because... they're going to step on each other's toes"
- [You're Hardly Using What Claude Code Has to Offer, it's Insane](../sources/youre-hardly-using-what-claude-code-has-to-offer-its-insane.md) - "[0:03:47] the native support for Git work trees. And this is a big deal because it allows us to very easily work with multiple copies of our codebase with claude at the exact same time."
- [A Complete Guide to Claude Code - Here are ALL the Best Strategies](../sources/a-complete-guide-to-claude-code-here-are-all-the-best-strategies.md) - "[0:44:22] we can use parallel agents to implement the same feature many different times. So we can pick the best implementation."
- [The Next Evolution of AI Coding Is Harnesses - Here's How to Build Them](../sources/the-next-evolution-of-ai-coding-is-harnesses-heres-how-to-build-them.md) - "[0:25:52] we can invoke a ton of workflows in parallel... use Archon to fix GitHub issues 5 7 8 9 10 and 11."
- [The Creators of Claude Code and OpenClaw don't Prompt Their Agents Anymore?!](../sources/the-creators-of-claude-code-and-openclaw-dont-prompt-their-agents-anymore.md) - "[0:15:14] We actually have nine coding agent sessions for this entire loop... one per GitHub issue fix, one per review, and then our primary orchestrator."
- [Stripe's Coding Agents Ship 1,300 PRs EVERY Week - Here's How They Do It](../sources/stripes-coding-agents-ship-1300-prs-every-week-heres-how-they-do-it.md) - "[0:11:46] A single engineer... oftentimes has many of these minions running at the exact same time."
- [The Way We Use AI Will Completely Change in 2026 (Hot Takes)](../sources/the-way-we-use-ai-will-completely-change-in-2026-hot-takes.md) - "[0:01:03] we're moving towards more of an agent manager interface where we can kick off agents in parallel to work on different features in a codebase or even work on different projects at the exact same time"
- [I Turned Claude Code Into a Complete Video Generation System (with Archon)](../sources/i-turned-claude-code-into-a-complete-video-generation-system-with-archon.md) - "[0:03:02] we have a parallel fan out of agents that are generating videos to drain the queue of products that need them."
- [GitHub is the Future of AI Coding (Here's Why)](../sources/github-is-the-future-of-ai-coding-heres-why.md) - "[0:20:30] because each of them suffix the branch with their name like claude or cursor or Codex, there's going to be no conflicts."
- [Claude Code's Agent Teams Are Insane - Multiple AI Agents Coding Together in Real Time](../sources/claude-codes-agent-teams-are-insane-multiple-ai-agents-coding-together-in-real-time.md) - "[0:11:04] With agent teams, we still have a primary agent spinning off these subprocesses, but the difference here is they're actually talking to each other."
- [I'm Building an AI Dark Factory That Ships Its Own Code (Public Experiment)](../sources/im-building-an-ai-dark-factory-that-ships-its-own-code-public-experiment.md) - "[0:20:47] Archon gives us the work tree and isolation support so that we can manage all of these different implementations at the exact same time"
- [Pi Coding Agent + Archon: Build ANY AI Coding Workflow (No Claude Code Bloat)](../sources/pi-coding-agent-archon-build-any-ai-coding-workflow-no-claude-code-bloat.md) - "[0:01:00] reusable workflows that you can execute in parallel to handle all of your AI coding tasks at scale."
- [The Subagent Era Is Officially Here - Learn this Now](../sources/the-subagent-era-is-officially-here-learn-this-now.md) - "[0:13:13] you can spin up dozens of sub agents in parallel."
- [This New Protocol Will Change AI Coding Forever (ACP)](../sources/this-new-protocol-will-change-ai-coding-forever-acp.md) - "[0:02:11] it makes it easier for us to run a lot of code agents in parallel."
- [Omnigent: The New Meta-Harness for EVERY Coding Agent - Claude Code, Codex, Pi, More](../sources/omnigent-the-new-meta-harness-for-every-coding-agent-claude-code-codex-pi-more.md) - "[0:05:36] I can even do work trees which are very important for parallel development."
- [I Built My Claude Code Subagents DREAM TEAM to Create Any AI Agent](../sources/i-built-my-claude-code-subagents-dream-team-to-create-any-ai-agent.md) - "[0:23:18] this is actually blazing fast. like it only took a minute here because we just had to wait for the slowest parallel agent."
- [Context Engineering 101 - The Simple Strategy to 100x AI Coding](../sources/context-engineering-101-the-simple-strategy-to-100x-ai-coding.md) - "[0:18:19] even if I run them in different workies I don't want to have the conflicts when I try to merge it later on."
