Carson 5.0.0

Carson 5 is a rewrite in Go of the git tool for coding agents that work in the same repositories at once. Each task starts from the latest main in a worktree of its own, and reaches main only as a finished task landing by fast-forward, so main only ever moves forward.

Commands

• carson start <task> starts a task from the latest main, in its own worktree under ~/.worktrees, owned by the agent's session.
• carson status shows main against GitHub's, the main working tree, every task with its owner and whether that owner is still live, and abandoned work.
• carson land <task> lands a finished task: brought up to the latest main, checked with the repository's bin/check, fast-forwarded, and pushed.
• carson remove <task> removes a landed task's worktree and branch, keeping its ignored files.
• carson abandon <task> keeps an unfinished task's work, uncommitted files committed, on a branch abandoned/<task>, and removes its worktree.
• carson adopt <task> makes a task yours: an ended agent's task, abandoned work, or a branch left without a worktree.

What it keeps to

• It runs only when called and keeps no state of its own beyond one owner record per worktree.
• Every check comes before any change, and nothing is ever destroyed: ignored files and abandoned work are kept.
• Only a task's owner lands, removes or abandons it; an ended owner's task is adopted openly, never taken by guess.
• It says what it observed, "unknown" when it cannot tell, and what to do next.

Install

Download the build for your system below, unpack it, and put carson on your PATH. checksums.txt holds each download's SHA-256.

Carson 4, the Ruby gem, is kept at the tag ruby-final.