New workspace in existing worktree under a project

[saimageshvar]

In cmux/herdr, I can open multiple workspaces targeting same worktree because, I may run agent for different purposes in same workree/folder. In Orca, whenever I click new workspace, it forces me to create a new worktree. Can I create a new workspace targeting same folder?

[173787247]

Cmux/herdr 把 workspace（一次 agent 会话） 和 worktree（一份 git checkout） 拆开了；Orca 的 “New workspace” 目前更像是 强制新 worktree，所以你会觉得不能「同一文件夹开第二个 agent」。

What usually works today

• Don’t use New workspace for the second agent. Open a second session/tab/pane inside the existing workspace if Orca exposes it (many ADE UIs do: split / duplicate session, same cwd).
• If the UI only offers worktrees: create the extra agent from a terminal in that folder (claude / codex in the same path). You lose Orca’s grouping, but you get the herdr behavior.
• Binding two workspaces to one path is a product gap if New workspace always calls git worktree add. Worth a feature request: “Attach workspace to existing directory (no worktree)”.

There isn’t a hidden checkbox in most builds — if New workspace always creates a worktree, that’s the current model, not you missing a setting.

Workaround used in practice: one Orca workspace = one worktree = one “source of truth”; extra agents for the same folder run as extra sessions in that workspace, not a second workspace.