--- title: How I Rebuilt My Development Workstation for Agentic Work description: A developer shares how they rebuilt their terminal-native workstation from scratch to support agentic, parallel development workflows. The new stack centers on... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-rebuilt-my-development-workstation-for-agentic-work-ubwwtf4gd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How I Rebuilt My Development Workstation for Agentic Work | daily.dev og:description: A developer shares how they rebuilt their terminal-native workstation from scratch to support agentic, parallel development workflows. The new stack centers on... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-rebuilt-my-development-workstation-for-agentic-work-ubwwtf4gd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UBWWtf4Gd.png og:image:alt: How I Rebuilt My Development Workstation for Agentic Work og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How I Rebuilt My Development Workstation for Agentic Work **[Atomic Spin](https://daily.dev/sources/atomicobject)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer shares how they rebuilt their terminal-native workstation from scratch to support agentic, parallel development workflows. The new stack centers on WezTerm, zsh, tmux, Neovim, and Codex (OpenAI's CLI agent), with Git worktrees providing branch isolation per work thread. Each branch maps to a dedicated worktree, a tmux session, and an agent instance. Tools like lazygit, revdiff, ripgrep, and fzf fill specific roles — lazygit for visual Git operations, revdiff for reviewing agent-produced diffs in bulk. The core insight is that in agentic workflows, the scarce resource shifts from producing code to coordinating, reviewing, and providing feedback across multiple parallel threads. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I use Git worktrees to run multiple AI agents on separate branches simultaneously? Each branch gets its own Git worktree directory, giving it an isolated working directory without a separate repository clone. A custom script then maps each worktree to a dedicated tmux session containing a shell and an agent. The directory structure keeps worktrees predictable (a `worktrees/` folder next to the main repo), and the tmux session tree (`prefix + w`) lets you navigate between parallel threads by name without losing context. _Developers managing multi-agent Git workflows track patterns like this on daily.dev._ ### What is revdiff and how does it help review AI agent output? revdiff is a CLI tool for reviewing complete diffs and attaching aggregated feedback across an entire changeset. Instead of reviewing one issue at a time, sending a comment, waiting for a fix, and repeating, you can inspect the full agent-produced diff and return a consolidated set of feedback in one pass. It complements lazygit (for visual human-driven Git operations) and standard CLI Git. _Developers refining their agent review loop find tools like revdiff discussed on daily.dev._ ### Why use tmux sessions instead of terminal tabs for managing multiple development contexts? tmux sessions are durable, addressable, and controllable from the command line, unlike terminal tabs. Each session can hold a working directory, editor, running processes, and an agent together. The session tree view (`prefix + w`) lets you navigate directly to a named context without reconstructing its state. This makes sessions useful building blocks for scripted automation, not just manual window management. _Developers building terminal-native multi-context setups share their tmux patterns on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [From 3 Worktrees to N: How AI Agents Changed My Parallel Development Workflow on Windows](https://daily.dev/posts/from-3-worktrees-to-n-how-ai-agents-changed-my-parallel-development-workflow-on-windows-v5fcgntbk) · We Are .NET · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#bash](https://daily.dev/tags/bash), [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#git](https://daily.dev/tags/git) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-rebuilt-my-development-workstation-for-agentic-work-ubwwtf4gd) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How I Rebuilt My Development Workstation for Agentic Work","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-rebuilt-my-development-workstation-for-agentic-work-ubwwtf4gd","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-rebuilt-my-development-workstation-for-agentic-work-ubwwtf4gd"},"datePublished":"2026-08-08T12:03:01.021Z","dateModified":"2026-10-14T02:22:52.003Z","description":"A developer shares how they rebuilt their terminal-native workstation from scratch to support agentic, parallel development workflows. 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