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Writing on coordinating parallel coding agents: intent conflicts, semantic scopes, what worktrees do not fix, and where orchestration ends and coordination starts.
The stack grew five layers in two years, and each was adopted fast because its absence hurt the same day. The sixth one's absence hurts three days later. That is the only reason you are probably missing it.
Both words mean make several agents work together, so they get used interchangeably. They name different layers, and one question tells you which one you are running.
A reader went through the Foremerge source and asked 31 questions about design, trust, and roadmap. The full maintainer Q&A, lightly edited.
Two agents, two worktrees, zero textual conflict, and a clean merge that broke anyway. Worktrees isolate files, not plans, and Git compares diffs, not intentions.