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What Is the Archon Isolation Resolver and How Does It Manage Environment Requests?

April 10, 2026 coleam00/Archon ↗

The Archon isolation resolver is a deterministic engine that assigns each workflow to a dedicated Git worktree, evaluating reuse candidates in strict priority order—from existing references to workflow matches, linked issues, PR branches, and finally fresh worktrees—before falling back to creation.

The isolation resolver is the core coordination mechanism in the coleam00/Archon repository that prevents concurrent workflows from interfering with one another. Located in packages/isolation/src/resolver.ts, the IsolationResolver class

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