docs(agents): one workspace per agent run — the shared checkout is off-limits
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Agents have been working in the operator's checkout and clobbering each other.
Nothing in the tree told them not to: worktrees appeared in CLAUDE.md only as
§3's gate workarounds, and decisions/README.md described worktree isolation as
something agents already do rather than as a rule.

New CLAUDE.md §0 states the rule, with the commands and an explicit do-not list
for the shared checkout. Placed before §1 so every existing §-reference in the
repo keeps its meaning.

Measured in the shared checkout on 2026-10-05, each row a distinct failure mode:
107 `checkout: moving` reflog entries; sitting on feat/pm-agent-issue-to-pr, not
main; two other runs' untracked trees left in it; local main two commits behind
origin/main; 42 registered worktrees of which 31 are on already-merged branches;
9 gate scripts carrying a `.claude/` exclusion because an in-tree worktree made
find-based discovery count the same manifest up to 18 times.

Corrects a claim carried in earlier briefs: `git worktree remove` is NOT blocked
by the agent sandbox. Provoked on a throwaway worktree — rc 0.

§3 reframed as the normal path and grown from two breakages to three:
spec-immutability's skip is avoidable, not merely tolerated, with the spec repo
mounted read-only in the same ENGINE shim plus -e SPEC_REPO=/home-network-k3s.

CLAUDE.md is a sensitive path, so this PR needs a non-author review or an
administrator /approve-override posted as a PR review. Not posted by me: §1
forbids an agent clearing that on its own PR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ specification** at [`../home-network-k3s`](../home-network-k3s).
- **Done = a green, reproducible, requirement-tagged conformance test** — never "merged," never a
manual demo (spec `docs/14`, `agents/definition-of-done.md`).
- **No work on `main`.** Every change is a feature branch merged into `main` (spec `CONTRIBUTING.md`).
- **No work in a shared checkout.** Every agent run gets its own git worktree, outside the repo
root, branched from `origin/main`. This checkout is shared mutable state — see
[`CLAUDE.md` §0](CLAUDE.md).
- **No plaintext secrets** — SOPS-encrypted only (spec `docs/07`).
- **Phase discipline** — only build what the active roadmap phase authorizes (spec `roadmap/phases.md`).
@@ -94,6 +97,20 @@ The running narrative — decisions, root causes, incidents, follow-ups — is
## Working on this repo
**First, get out of this checkout.** It is the operator's working copy and several agents
share it; concurrent runs here have overwritten each other's branches and left each other's
uncommitted files behind. One workspace per change:
```bash
git fetch origin main
git worktree add -b <type>/<slug> /path/outside/the/repo/wt-<slug> origin/main
cd /path/outside/the/repo/wt-<slug>
```
Outside the repo root specifically — a worktree under `.claude/worktrees/` is a second full
copy that tree-walking gate checks then count twice. The rule, the measurements behind it, and
the three gate workarounds a worktree needs are in [`CLAUDE.md` §0](CLAUDE.md) and §3.
Everything the gate needs is baked into the pinned dev container — **do not install the
toolchain on the host**: