The "Changes" panel was empty for multi-repo tasks because the
agent's workspace path is the task root — a plain holder directory
that holds one git worktree per repository as siblings. The workspace
tracker tried to run git commands against that bare root and silently
failed, so no git status updates ever reached the UI.
The tracker now detects this at construction: when the configured
workDir isn't itself a git repo, it falls back to the first immediate
child directory that is. The user gets the primary repo's changes in
the panel; cross-repo aggregation is a follow-up.
- preferGitRepoChildIfRootIsBare scans os.ReadDir entries (skipping
hidden / non-directory entries) and returns the first that has a
valid git index. Logs an info line when the rewrite happens so it's
visible in the agentctl log.
- Repo-less tasks (e.g. quick chat) and single-repo tasks keep their
previous behavior verbatim — the fallback only fires when the root
itself fails resolveGitIndexPath.
- Tests cover: fallback when the workdir is a multi-repo holder,
no-fallback for a real git repo, no-fallback when no git child
exists.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Kandev Agent
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