docs(agents): one workspace per agent run — the shared checkout is off-limits #56

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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]>
2026-10-05 22:31:40 -05:00