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@@ -254,6 +254,22 @@ The agent-specific trap: the usual offender is a follow-up commit (review fix, d
 fixup), not the first one. Sign every commit you add, including the ones an automated pass makes
 for you.
 
+## Worktrees and landing a change
+
+- **Work in a treehouse worktree, never in the main clone.** Other agent sessions and the
+  no-mistakes pipeline share the main clone. Take a worktree with
+  `treehouse get --lease -b <branch>` (it prints the path; `--base <branch>` starts it from
+  another branch), work there, and release it with `treehouse return <path>` once the change
+  has merged. `treehouse status` lists the pool. Never make one with `git worktree add` or a
+  second clone.
+- **Land every change through no-mistakes, at most three runs per pull request.** Commit in
+  the worktree, then run `no-mistakes axi run --intent "<goal>"` (a clone without a
+  `no-mistakes` remote needs `no-mistakes init` once). `no-mistakes axi status` shows the step
+  and its findings, and `no-mistakes axi respond` answers a review gate. The pipeline reviews,
+  tests, pushes and opens the pull request. After the third run, merge the pull request as it
+  stands and open an issue for anything still flagged. A run that stopped on a usage limit
+  counts; one cancelled before it did anything does not.
+
 ## Maintaining this file
 
 Keep this file for knowledge useful to almost every future agent session in this project.