Worktree Viewer — mission control for git worktrees in Obsidian

Watch AI agents (or anyone) work in git worktrees, live, from inside your vault — then accept their work with one click.

Every Obsidian git plugin versions your vault. This one inverts that: your vault becomes the cockpit for repos changing beneath it. Built for the parallel-agent era — run several Claude Code sessions in worktrees and watch their edits stream in while you write.

What it does

• Live worktree panel — every worktree of your repo, refreshed every 4s while open (and fully idle when closed). No flicker: rows re-render only when their state changes, and your own typing doesn't redraw agent rows.
• Agent presence dots — a pulsing dot on any worktree where a Claude Code session is actively writing, read from the session's own transcripts. "idle 4m" when it stops.
• Changed files per worktree — diffed against the merge-base (no phantom changes after siblings merge), untracked files included, click any file for a colored diff or a fully rendered preview of the worktree's version of the note.
• Commit all & create PR — one click commits the agent's uncommitted work, pushes the branch, and opens a pull request (via gh, with a GitHub compare-page fallback). Nothing is deleted; the worktree stays until the PR merges.
• Safe by construction — all polling uses --no-optional-locks so the plugin never contends with your agents' own git operations.

Install

In Obsidian: Settings → Community plugins → Browse, search for "Worktree Viewer", install and enable. (Directory listing)

Manual: download main.js, manifest.json, styles.css from the latest release into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/worktree-viewer/, then enable it in Settings → Community plugins.

Setup

Settings → Worktree Viewer → Repository path: the absolute path of the git repo whose worktrees you want to watch (defaults to the vault folder). Works when the vault is a subfolder of the repo. Then open the panel via the git-branch ribbon icon.

Requirements: desktop only; git on PATH; gh (optional — enables direct PR creation, otherwise you get the GitHub compare page).

Disclosures

Per Obsidian's developer policies, this plugin:

• Accesses files outside your vault. That is its purpose: it reads the git repository you configure in settings (which may contain your vault), its worktrees, and — for the agent presence dots — file modification times and the cwd field of Claude Code session transcripts under ~/.claude/projects/. All reads are local; transcript contents are never displayed, stored, or transmitted.
• Executes local binaries. It shells out to your installed git (read-only polling with --no-optional-locks; write operations only when you explicitly click Create PR) and, optionally, the GitHub CLI (gh).
• Uses the network only on your explicit action. Clicking "Create PR" runs git push to your repository's origin remote and creates a pull request via gh (or opens the GitHub compare page). There is no other network activity — no telemetry, no ads, no update mechanism, no remote code.

Development

Plain JavaScript, no build step, zero dependencies. Tests use node's built-in runner:

node --test

The suite includes scratch-repo integration tests that exercise real git worktrees, pushes, and the PR sequence against a local bare origin.

License

MIT © Sebastian Winkler