--- title: Make Your Agents Take Turns Pushing Code | daily.dev description: When running multiple AI coding agents on the same repo, push conflicts become a coordination problem. Claude Code Merge Queue is a free, local tool that... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/make-your-agents-take-turns-pushing-code-gyjtnwkfs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Make Your Agents Take Turns Pushing Code | daily.dev og:description: When running multiple AI coding agents on the same repo, push conflicts become a coordination problem. Claude Code Merge Queue is a free, local tool that... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/make-your-agents-take-turns-pushing-code-gyjtnwkfs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GyJtNWKFs.png og:image:alt: Make Your Agents Take Turns Pushing Code 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. # Make Your Agents Take Turns Pushing Code **[ITNEXT](https://daily.dev/sources/itnext)** · 6 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary When running multiple AI coding agents on the same repo, push conflicts become a coordination problem. Claude Code Merge Queue is a free, local tool that serializes agent pushes — one at a time — running your full test suite on each commit before it lands on main. It avoids GitHub's PR-based merge queue (which requires Actions minutes and Enterprise for private repos), keeps git history clean via rebase, and works with Claude Code's native --worktree flag to give each agent an isolated checkout. Throughput is capped by test suite duration, and it only works on a single machine, but it solves the core race condition for solo developers running agent swarms. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What happens when multiple Claude Code agents try to push to the same branch at the same time? One push succeeds and the other gets rejected, forcing a rebase and retry; if a third agent finishes in that same window, its retry can race too, and the problem compounds as more agents run concurrently. This is a coordination issue rather than an agent capability issue, and it worsens with more parallel agents rather than resolving on its own. _Track tools like claude-code-merge-queue on daily.dev as multi-agent coding workflows keep evolving._ ### How do I stop multiple Claude Code agents from overwriting each other's uncommitted files in the same repo? Give each agent its own isolated checkout using the --worktree flag, available natively in Claude Code since version 2.1.49. Running agents in separate worktrees prevents them from clobbering each other's uncommitted edits mid-task, which is a prerequisite before introducing any merge queue tool to serialize their pushes. _Developers running agent swarms can follow worktree and merge-queue setups like this on daily.dev._ ### What is the difference between GitHub's merge queue and a local merge queue for AI coding agents? GitHub's merge queue runs in the cloud, requires pull requests, burns Actions minutes on every attempt, and needs Enterprise-Cloud for private repos, making it built for team review workflows. A local queue like Claude Code Merge Queue runs on one's own machine for free, skips PRs entirely, still runs the full check suite on each landing, and keeps a clean git history with one rebase per landing. _Compare local versus cloud merge queue tradeoffs on daily.dev before picking a workflow for agent-driven pushes._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [GitHub - funador/claude-code-merge-queue: The local merge queue for parallel Claude Code agents](https://daily.dev/posts/github---funador-claude-code-merge-queue-the-local-merge-queue-for-parallel-claude-code-agents-m7iiczonj) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [How to Run Claude Code Agents in Parallel](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-run-claude-code-agents-in-parallel-48pijeifu) · Towards Data Science · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Claude Code Agent Teams: Run Parallel AI Agents on Your Codebase](https://daily.dev/posts/claude-code-agent-teams-run-parallel-ai-agents-on-your-codebase-q76xl0e92) · SitePoint · 2 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#cicd](https://daily.dev/tags/cicd), [#git](https://daily.dev/tags/git), [#claude-code](https://daily.dev/tags/claude-code) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/make-your-agents-take-turns-pushing-code-gyjtnwkfs) ```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":"Make Your Agents Take Turns Pushing Code","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/make-your-agents-take-turns-pushing-code-gyjtnwkfs","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/make-your-agents-take-turns-pushing-code-gyjtnwkfs"},"datePublished":"2026-07-13T17:35:51.279Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T06:25:17.161Z","description":"When running multiple AI coding agents on the same repo, push conflicts become a coordination problem. 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