untaped-workspace

Install it as part of untaped: uv tool install 'untaped[workspace]' or pip install 'untaped[workspace]'. To add it to an existing install, see Getting started.

workspace is experimental and may change in a minor release.

A workspace is one directory per task. It holds a git worktree for each repo you need, all on the same branch, so you (or an agent) can change several repos for one ticket and archive the lot when the work is pushed. Worktrees of a repo share one blobless repo in the git plugin's repo store (git.store_dir), so creating a workspace is fast and cheap, parallel tasks get isolated checkouts of the same repos, and the whole history (git blame, git log -p) is there offline once the backfill after create is done. Archiving refuses while a repo has uncommitted, stashed or unpushed work.

Set up

Repos named OWNER/NAME or NAME are looked up in the repos the installed repo providers list. For GitHub's, set a GitHub token (see GitHub) and the orgs or teams to list:

untaped auth set github
untaped config set github.inventory.orgs '["acme"]'

Fetching a private repo uses the token of the plugin that claims its host (GitHub's for github.com), else your own Git credentials; see the skill's setup. Clone URLs (https://, ssh://, user@host:path) skip the lookup. Directories, branch naming and parallelism are in the configuration reference.

Create, work, archive

untaped workspace create PROJ-123 --repo acme/api --repo acme/web --read-only acme/docs
cd "$(untaped workspace path PROJ-123)"
# commit and git push in each repo, then:
untaped workspace status PROJ-123 --check
untaped workspace archive PROJ-123
untaped workspace remove PROJ-123

Each repo gets a new branch from its base, or resumes an existing one; --read-only repos are reference checkouts. status --check exits 3 while anything would block archiving. archive removes the worktrees; the branches stay, so a later workspace on the same branch resumes the work. remove gives the space back: it drops the workspace's records and, for each repo no other workspace uses, deletes workspace's refs and the pushed branches from the repo store, and the repo itself when nothing else uses it. It refuses while the workspace's own branch has commits the remote lacks; other branches with unpushed commits or a stash stay, unless --force deletes them.

Add repos

untaped workspace add PROJ-123 --repo acme/infra
untaped github repos list --team acme/platform --format pipe | untaped workspace add PROJ-123 --stdin
untaped workspace add PROJ-123

add takes repos by name, from a pipe, or, with no repos in a terminal, from a picker over the providers' repos, the repos in the repo store and any git URL you paste. create opens the same picker, which also creates the workspace with no repos selected. create NAME --empty makes an empty workspace to add to later.

Find a workspace

untaped workspace list
untaped workspace list --archived
cd "$(untaped workspace path PROJ-123)"

Inside a workspace directory, the name may be left out.

Run a command in every repo

untaped workspace status PROJ-123
untaped workspace run PROJ-123 'git push -u origin HEAD'
untaped workspace run PROJ-123 ./bump.sh

run has no preview, so check the selection with status first. It runs in every writable repo and exits 1 if any repo failed.

Reference

The packaged skill is the full reference: every workflow, safety rule and pitfall. Install it for your agent with untaped skills install workspace --target claude (or another agent); untaped workspace COMMAND --help lists each command's options.

• Output records and exit codes
• Settings
• GitHub, which lists repos for workspace (its RepoSource provider)