Agents spawned by handler were getting branches several commits behind
main. Two compounding causes: sync_project ran 'git pull --ff-only' in
the project root, which only moves whichever branch the root checkout
happens to be on — an agent parked on a feature branch left origin/*
stale (and the pull's 'no tracking information' failure degraded to an
easy-to-miss sync_note). Then worktree spawns cut new branches from the
root's HEAD, inheriting that stale state.
sync_project now fetches origin (refreshing origin/* regardless of the
checkout), re-pins origin/HEAD, and fast-forwards the checkout only when
it sits on the default branch — a diverged default branch still fails
loudly. New worktree branches are cut from origin/HEAD with --no-track
so they start at the remote default branch's tip and don't adopt it as
upstream.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01V7mF6qeryi9nJthaxYkfPm
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