diff --git a/.changeset/fn-4536-branch-worktree-auto-recovery.md b/.changeset/fn-4536-branch-worktree-auto-recovery.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..17e5aff43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/fn-4536-branch-worktree-auto-recovery.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@runfusion/fusion": patch
+---
+
+Add branch/worktree auto-recovery handler that resolves FN-4519-class incidents (ghost worktrees, branch misbinding, stale branch-conflict-unrecoverable parking) by re-running deterministic classification (FN-4499 bootstrap re-anchor, FN-4500 zero-unique-commit reclaim via inspectBranchConflict kinds `stale-resolved` / `fully-subsumed`, FN-4499 `reclaimable`-with-zero-own-commits re-anchor) against live evidence and requeueing through the FN-4534 dispatcher. Adds run-audit events branch-worktree:auto-requeue, branch-worktree:ai-session-spawned, branch-worktree:irreducible-pause. Genuine live-foreign (FN-3936-class) cases continue to pause; userPaused (FN-4429) is preserved; autoRecovery.mode === "off" behavior is byte-identical to legacy parking.
diff --git a/packages/engine/src/__tests__/auto-recovery-branch-worktree.test.ts b/packages/engine/src/__tests__/auto-recovery-branch-worktree.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6280feb55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/engine/src/__tests__/auto-recovery-branch-worktree.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import type { AutoRecoveryContext, AutoRecoveryDecision, AutoRecoveryFailure } from "../auto-recovery.js";
+import { BranchWorktreeAutoRecoveryHandler } from "../auto-recovery-handlers/branch-worktree.js";
+
+const branchConflictMocks = vi.hoisted(() => ({
+  inspectBranchConflict: vi.fn(),
+  classifyBootstrapMisbinding: vi.fn(),
+  reanchorBranchToBase: vi.fn(),
+}));
+
+vi.mock("../branch-conflicts.js", () => ({
+  inspectBranchConflict: branchConflictMocks.inspectBranchConflict,
+  classifyBootstrapMisbinding: branchConflictMocks.classifyBootstrapMisbinding,
+  reanchorBranchToBase: branchConflictMocks.reanchorBranchToBase,
+}));
+
+function createTask(overrides: Record<string, unknown> = {}) {
+  return {
+    id: "FN-4536",
+    column: "in-progress",
+    branch: "fusion/fn-4536",
+    worktree: "/tmp/wt",
+    baseCommitSha: "main",
+    pausedReason: null,
+    userPaused: false,
+    ...overrides,
+  } as any;
+}
+
+function createFixtures(taskOverrides: Record<string, unknown> = {}, mode = "programmatic") {
+  const task = createTask(taskOverrides);
+  const taskStore = {
+    updateTask: vi.fn(async () => undefined),
+    moveTask: vi.fn(async () => undefined),
+  } as any;
+  const runAudit = { database: vi.fn(async () => undefined), git: vi.fn(), filesystem: vi.fn() } as any;
+  const logger = { warn: vi.fn(), log: vi.fn(), error: vi.fn() } as any;
+  const spawnAiRecoverySession = vi.fn(async () => ({ outcome: "exhausted" as const }));
+  const handler = new BranchWorktreeAutoRecoveryHandler({ taskStore, runAudit, logger, spawnAiRecoverySession });
+  const failure: AutoRecoveryFailure = { class: "branch-conflict-unrecoverable", taskId: task.id, pausedReason: "branch-conflict-unrecoverable", evidence: {} };
+  const decision: AutoRecoveryDecision = { action: "retry", rationale: "mode", legacyPausedReason: "branch-conflict-unrecoverable", auditMetadata: { mode } };
+  const ctx: AutoRecoveryContext = { task, retryCount: 0, settings: { mode: "programmatic", maxRetries: 3 } as any };
+  return { taskStore, runAudit, logger, spawnAiRecoverySession, handler, failure, decision, ctx };
+}
+
+describe("BranchWorktreeAutoRecoveryHandler", () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    vi.clearAllMocks();
+  });
+
+  it("requeues on fully-subsumed", async () => {
+    const f = createFixtures();
+    branchConflictMocks.inspectBranchConflict.mockResolvedValue({ kind: "fully-subsumed", livePath: "/tmp/wt", tipSha: "abc" });
+    await f.handler.issueRetry(f.failure, f.decision, f.ctx);
+    expect(f.taskStore.updateTask).toHaveBeenCalledWith("FN-4536", { branch: null, baseCommitSha: null });
+    expect(f.taskStore.moveTask).toHaveBeenCalledWith("FN-4536", "todo", expect.objectContaining({ moveSource: "engine", preserveWorktree: false }));
+    expect(f.runAudit.database).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ type: "branch-worktree:auto-requeue" }));
+  });
+
+  it("reanchors bootstrap misbinding then requeues", async () => {
+    const f = createFixtures();
+    branchConflictMocks.inspectBranchConflict.mockResolvedValue({ kind: "reclaimable", livePath: "/tmp/wt", tipSha: "abc", taskAttributedCommitCount: 0, strandedCommits: [] });
+    branchConflictMocks.classifyBootstrapMisbinding.mockResolvedValue({ isBootstrapMisbinding: true, ownCommitCount: 0, nonAttributedCount: 0 });
+    branchConflictMocks.reanchorBranchToBase.mockResolvedValue({});
+    await f.handler.issueRetry(f.failure, f.decision, f.ctx);
+    expect(branchConflictMocks.reanchorBranchToBase).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(f.taskStore.moveTask).toHaveBeenCalledWith("FN-4536", "todo", expect.objectContaining({ moveSource: "engine" }));
+    expect(f.runAudit.database).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ type: "branch-worktree:auto-requeue", metadata: expect.objectContaining({ rationale: "bootstrap-misbinding-reanchor" }) }));
+  });
+
+  it("unparks stale paused conflict", async () => {
+    const f = createFixtures({ paused: true, pausedReason: "branch-conflict-unrecoverable" });
+    branchConflictMocks.inspectBranchConflict.mockResolvedValue({ kind: "stale-resolved" });
+    await f.handler.issueRetry(f.failure, f.decision, f.ctx);
+    expect(f.taskStore.moveTask).toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(f.runAudit.database).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ type: "branch-worktree:auto-requeue", metadata: expect.objectContaining({ prevPausedReason: "branch-conflict-unrecoverable" }) }));
+  });
+
+  it("live-foreign emits irreducible pause without mutation", async () => {
+    const f = createFixtures();
+    branchConflictMocks.inspectBranchConflict.mockResolvedValue({ kind: "live-foreign", livePath: "/tmp/wt", error: new Error("foreign") });
+    await f.handler.issueRetry(f.failure, f.decision, f.ctx);
+    expect(f.taskStore.moveTask).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(f.runAudit.database).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ type: "branch-worktree:irreducible-pause", metadata: expect.objectContaining({ reason: "live-foreign" }) }));
+  });
+
+  it("ai-assisted exhaustion logs spawned and irreducible", async () => {
+    const f = createFixtures({}, "ai-assisted");
+    await f.handler.spawnAiRecovery(f.failure, { ...f.decision, auditMetadata: { mode: "ai-assisted" } }, f.ctx);
+    expect(f.spawnAiRecoverySession).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(f.runAudit.database).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ type: "branch-worktree:ai-session-spawned", metadata: expect.objectContaining({ outcome: "exhausted" }) }));
+    expect(f.runAudit.database).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ type: "branch-worktree:irreducible-pause", metadata: expect.objectContaining({ reason: "ai-session-unresolved" }) }));
+  });
+
+  it("mode off is no-op", async () => {
+    const f = createFixtures({}, "off");
+    await f.handler.issueRetry(f.failure, { ...f.decision, auditMetadata: { mode: "off" } }, f.ctx);
+    expect(f.taskStore.moveTask).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(f.runAudit.database).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("userPaused skips", async () => {
+    const f = createFixtures({ userPaused: true, pausedReason: "branch-conflict-unrecoverable", paused: true });
+    await f.handler.issueRetry(f.failure, f.decision, f.ctx);
+    expect(f.taskStore.moveTask).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(f.runAudit.database).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(f.logger.warn).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("skipped (userPaused)"));
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/engine/src/__tests__/reliability-interactions/branch-worktree-auto-recovery.test.ts b/packages/engine/src/__tests__/reliability-interactions/branch-worktree-auto-recovery.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..177e143fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/engine/src/__tests__/reliability-interactions/branch-worktree-auto-recovery.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import { AutoRecoveryDispatcher } from "../../auto-recovery.js";
+import { BranchWorktreeAutoRecoveryHandler } from "../../auto-recovery-handlers/branch-worktree.js";
+
+const branchConflictMocks = vi.hoisted(() => ({
+  inspectBranchConflict: vi.fn(),
+  classifyBootstrapMisbinding: vi.fn(),
+  reanchorBranchToBase: vi.fn(),
+}));
+
+vi.mock("../../branch-conflicts.js", () => ({
+  inspectBranchConflict: branchConflictMocks.inspectBranchConflict,
+  classifyBootstrapMisbinding: branchConflictMocks.classifyBootstrapMisbinding,
+  reanchorBranchToBase: branchConflictMocks.reanchorBranchToBase,
+}));
+
+function task(overrides: Record<string, unknown> = {}) {
+  return {
+    id: "FN-4519",
+    lineageId: "L1",
+    column: "in-progress",
+    branch: "fusion/fn-4519",
+    worktree: "/tmp/wt",
+    baseCommitSha: "main",
+    paused: true,
+    pausedReason: "branch-conflict-unrecoverable",
+    userPaused: false,
+    recoveryRetryCount: 0,
+    ...overrides,
+  } as any;
+}
+
+describe("reliability interaction: branch/worktree auto-recovery", () => {
+  it("dispatcher delegates to handler for FN-4519 path and requeues", async () => {
+    const t = task();
+    const taskStore = {
+      updateTask: vi.fn(async () => undefined),
+      moveTask: vi.fn(async () => undefined),
+    } as any;
+    const audit = { database: vi.fn(async () => undefined), git: vi.fn(), filesystem: vi.fn() } as any;
+    const handler = new BranchWorktreeAutoRecoveryHandler({ taskStore, runAudit: audit });
+    const dispatcher = new AutoRecoveryDispatcher({
+      taskStore,
+      auditEmitter: audit,
+      handlers: { issueRetry: (f, d, c) => handler.issueRetry(f, d, c) },
+    });
+
+    branchConflictMocks.inspectBranchConflict.mockResolvedValue({ kind: "fully-subsumed", livePath: "/tmp/wt", tipSha: "abc" });
+
+    const decision = await dispatcher.dispatch({
+      class: "branch-conflict-unrecoverable",
+      taskId: t.id,
+      pausedReason: "branch-conflict-unrecoverable",
+      evidence: { branchName: t.branch, conflictingWorktreePath: t.worktree },
+    }, {
+      task: t,
+      retryCount: 0,
+      settings: { mode: "programmatic", maxRetries: 3 },
+    });
+
+    expect(decision.action).toBe("retry");
+    expect(taskStore.updateTask).toHaveBeenCalledWith(t.id, { branch: null, baseCommitSha: null });
+    expect(taskStore.moveTask).toHaveBeenCalledWith(t.id, "todo", expect.objectContaining({ moveSource: "engine" }));
+    expect(audit.database).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.objectContaining({ type: "branch-worktree:auto-requeue" }));
+  });
+
+  it("preserves userPaused contract", async () => {
+    const t = task({ userPaused: true });
+    const taskStore = { updateTask: vi.fn(async () => undefined), moveTask: vi.fn(async () => undefined) } as any;
+    const audit = { database: vi.fn(async () => undefined), git: vi.fn(), filesystem: vi.fn() } as any;
+    const handler = new BranchWorktreeAutoRecoveryHandler({ taskStore, runAudit: audit, logger: { warn: vi.fn(), log: vi.fn(), error: vi.fn() } as any });
+
+    await handler.issueRetry(
+      { class: "branch-conflict-unrecoverable", taskId: t.id, pausedReason: "branch-conflict-unrecoverable", evidence: { branchName: t.branch, conflictingWorktreePath: t.worktree } },
+      { action: "retry", rationale: "mode-programmatic", legacyPausedReason: "branch-conflict-unrecoverable", auditMetadata: { mode: "programmatic" } },
+      { task: t, retryCount: 0, settings: { mode: "programmatic", maxRetries: 3 } as any },
+    );
+
+    expect(taskStore.moveTask).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(audit.database).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/engine/src/auto-recovery-handlers/branch-worktree.ts b/packages/engine/src/auto-recovery-handlers/branch-worktree.ts
index 06c9f878d..95678997e 100644
--- a/packages/engine/src/auto-recovery-handlers/branch-worktree.ts
+++ b/packages/engine/src/auto-recovery-handlers/branch-worktree.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,20 @@
 import { exec } from "node:child_process";
+import { existsSync } from "node:fs";
 import { promisify } from "node:util";
-import type { TaskStore } from "@fusion/core";
+import type { Task, TaskStore } from "@fusion/core";
+import {
+  classifyBootstrapMisbinding,
+  inspectBranchConflict,
+  reanchorBranchToBase,
+} from "../branch-conflicts.js";
 import type { AutoRecoveryContext, AutoRecoveryDecision, AutoRecoveryFailure } from "../auto-recovery.js";
-import type { Logger } from "../logger.js";
+import { createLogger, type Logger } from "../logger.js";
 import type { RunAuditor } from "../run-audit.js";
 
 const execAsync = promisify(exec);
+const baseLog = createLogger("auto-recovery:branch-worktree");
+const GIT_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000;
+const GIT_MAX_BUFFER = 10 * 1024 * 1024;
 
 export interface BranchWorktreeRecoveryDeps {
   taskStore: TaskStore;
@@ -19,17 +28,246 @@ export interface BranchWorktreeRecoveryDeps {
   now?: () => Date;
 }
 
+interface RecoveryEvidence {
+  branchExists: boolean;
+  worktreePresent: boolean;
+  tipSha?: string;
+  inspectionKind?: string;
+}
+
 export class BranchWorktreeAutoRecoveryHandler {
-  constructor(private readonly deps: BranchWorktreeRecoveryDeps) {
-    void this.deps;
-    void execAsync;
+  constructor(private readonly deps: BranchWorktreeRecoveryDeps) {}
+
+  private get logger(): Logger {
+    return this.deps.logger ?? baseLog;
   }
 
-  async issueRetry(_failure: AutoRecoveryFailure, _decision: AutoRecoveryDecision, _ctx: AutoRecoveryContext): Promise<void> {
-    // Implemented in FN-4536 Step 2.
+  private async runGit(repoDir: string, command: string): Promise<string> {
+    const { stdout } = await execAsync(command, {
+      cwd: repoDir,
+      timeout: GIT_TIMEOUT_MS,
+      maxBuffer: GIT_MAX_BUFFER,
+      encoding: "utf-8",
+    });
+    return stdout.trim();
   }
 
-  async spawnAiRecovery(_failure: AutoRecoveryFailure, _decision: AutoRecoveryDecision, _ctx: AutoRecoveryContext): Promise<void> {
-    // Implemented in FN-4536 Step 4.
+  private quote(value: string): string {
+    return `'${value.replace(/'/g, `'\\''`)}'`;
+  }
+
+  private async hasBranchRef(repoDir: string, branchName: string): Promise<boolean> {
+    try {
+      await this.runGit(repoDir, `git rev-parse --verify ${this.quote(`refs/heads/${branchName}`)}`);
+      return true;
+    } catch {
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  private async getTipSha(repoDir: string, branchName: string): Promise<string | undefined> {
+    try {
+      return await this.runGit(repoDir, `git rev-parse --verify ${this.quote(`refs/heads/${branchName}`)}`);
+    } catch {
+      return undefined;
+    }
+  }
+
+  private async getWorktreeBranchMap(repoDir: string): Promise<Map<string, string>> {
+    const output = await this.runGit(repoDir, "git worktree list --porcelain").catch(() => "");
+    const map = new Map<string, string>();
+    let path: string | null = null;
+    for (const line of output.split("\n")) {
+      if (line.startsWith("worktree ")) path = line.slice("worktree ".length).trim();
+      if (line.startsWith("branch refs/heads/") && path) {
+        map.set(line.slice("branch refs/heads/".length).trim(), path);
+      }
+      if (!line.trim()) path = null;
+    }
+    return map;
+  }
+
+  private async resolveRepoDir(ctx: AutoRecoveryContext, failure: AutoRecoveryFailure): Promise<string> {
+    const repoFromFailure = typeof failure.evidence?.repoDir === "string" ? failure.evidence.repoDir : undefined;
+    if (repoFromFailure) return repoFromFailure;
+    if (ctx.task.worktree) {
+      const top = await this.runGit(ctx.task.worktree, "git rev-parse --show-toplevel").catch(() => "");
+      if (top) return top;
+    }
+    return process.cwd();
+  }
+
+  private async requeueAfterRecovery(task: Task, failure: AutoRecoveryFailure, rationale: string, evidence: RecoveryEvidence): Promise<void> {
+    if (task.userPaused) return;
+    if (task.column === "in-progress") {
+      await this.deps.taskStore.updateTask(task.id, { branch: null, baseCommitSha: null });
+    }
+    await this.deps.taskStore.moveTask(task.id, "todo", {
+      moveSource: "engine",
+      preserveResumeState: true,
+      preserveProgress: true,
+      preserveWorktree: false,
+    });
+    await this.deps.runAudit.database({
+      type: "branch-worktree:auto-requeue",
+      target: task.id,
+      metadata: {
+        class: failure.class,
+        rationale,
+        prevPausedReason: task.pausedReason ?? null,
+        evidence,
+      },
+    });
+  }
+
+  private async emitIrreduciblePause(task: Task, failure: AutoRecoveryFailure, reason: string, evidence: Record<string, unknown>): Promise<void> {
+    await this.deps.runAudit.database({
+      type: "branch-worktree:irreducible-pause",
+      target: task.id,
+      metadata: {
+        class: failure.class,
+        reason,
+        evidence,
+      },
+    });
+  }
+
+  async issueRetry(failure: AutoRecoveryFailure, decision: AutoRecoveryDecision, ctx: AutoRecoveryContext): Promise<void> {
+    if (ctx.task.userPaused) {
+      this.logger.warn(`auto-recovery: skipped (userPaused) class=${failure.class} task=${ctx.task.id}`);
+      return;
+    }
+    if (decision.auditMetadata.mode === "off") return;
+
+    const repoDir = await this.resolveRepoDir(ctx, failure);
+    const branchName = (ctx.task.branch ?? (typeof failure.evidence?.branchName === "string" ? failure.evidence.branchName : "")).trim();
+    const conflictingWorktreePath = (ctx.task.worktree ?? (typeof failure.evidence?.conflictingWorktreePath === "string"
+      ? failure.evidence.conflictingWorktreePath
+      : typeof failure.evidence?.worktreePath === "string"
+        ? failure.evidence.worktreePath
+        : "")).trim();
+    if (!branchName || !conflictingWorktreePath) return;
+
+    const inspection = await inspectBranchConflict({
+      repoDir,
+      branchName,
+      conflictingWorktreePath,
+      requestingTaskId: ctx.task.id,
+      ownerTaskId: ctx.task.id,
+      startPoint: ctx.task.baseCommitSha ?? "main",
+    });
+
+    if (inspection.kind === "stale-resolved" || inspection.kind === "fully-subsumed" || inspection.kind === "tip-already-merged") {
+      await this.requeueAfterRecovery(ctx.task, failure, inspection.kind, {
+        branchExists: await this.hasBranchRef(repoDir, branchName),
+        worktreePresent: existsSync(conflictingWorktreePath),
+        tipSha: "tipSha" in inspection ? inspection.tipSha : undefined,
+        inspectionKind: inspection.kind,
+      });
+      return;
+    }
+
+    if (inspection.kind === "stale") {
+      await this.runGit(repoDir, "git worktree prune").catch(() => undefined);
+      const [branchExists, map] = await Promise.all([
+        this.hasBranchRef(repoDir, branchName),
+        this.getWorktreeBranchMap(repoDir),
+      ]);
+      if (!branchExists) {
+        await this.requeueAfterRecovery(ctx.task, failure, "stale-branch-deleted", {
+          branchExists,
+          worktreePresent: false,
+          inspectionKind: inspection.kind,
+        });
+        return;
+      }
+      if (!map.has(branchName)) {
+        await this.requeueAfterRecovery(ctx.task, failure, "stale-resolved-after-prune", {
+          branchExists,
+          worktreePresent: false,
+          inspectionKind: inspection.kind,
+        });
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (inspection.kind === "reclaimable" && inspection.taskAttributedCommitCount === 0) {
+      const bootstrap = await classifyBootstrapMisbinding({
+        repoDir,
+        branchName,
+        baseSha: ctx.task.baseCommitSha ?? "main",
+        taskId: ctx.task.id,
+        foreignCommits: [],
+      }).catch(() => ({ isBootstrapMisbinding: false, ownCommitCount: 0, nonAttributedCount: 0 }));
+
+      if (bootstrap.isBootstrapMisbinding) {
+        const reanchor = await reanchorBranchToBase({
+          repoDir,
+          worktreePath: inspection.livePath,
+          branchName,
+          baseSha: ctx.task.baseCommitSha ?? "main",
+          taskId: ctx.task.id,
+        }).catch(() => null);
+
+        if (reanchor) {
+          await this.requeueAfterRecovery(ctx.task, failure, "bootstrap-misbinding-reanchor", {
+            branchExists: true,
+            worktreePresent: true,
+            tipSha: inspection.tipSha,
+            inspectionKind: inspection.kind,
+          });
+          return;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (inspection.kind === "live-foreign") {
+      await this.emitIrreduciblePause(ctx.task, failure, "live-foreign", {
+        branchName,
+        conflictingWorktreePath,
+        inspectionKind: inspection.kind,
+      });
+      return;
+    }
+
+    const branchExists = await this.hasBranchRef(repoDir, branchName);
+    const tipSha = await this.getTipSha(repoDir, branchName);
+    await this.emitIrreduciblePause(ctx.task, failure, "deterministic-unresolved", {
+      branchName,
+      conflictingWorktreePath,
+      inspectionKind: inspection.kind,
+      branchExists,
+      worktreePresent: existsSync(conflictingWorktreePath),
+      tipSha,
+    });
+  }
+
+  async spawnAiRecovery(failure: AutoRecoveryFailure, decision: AutoRecoveryDecision, ctx: AutoRecoveryContext): Promise<void> {
+    if (!this.deps.spawnAiRecoverySession) return;
+    if (decision.auditMetadata.mode !== "ai-assisted") return;
+
+    const result = await this.deps.spawnAiRecoverySession(failure, decision, ctx);
+    await this.deps.runAudit.database({
+      type: "branch-worktree:ai-session-spawned",
+      target: ctx.task.id,
+      metadata: {
+        class: failure.class,
+        outcome: result.outcome,
+        evidence: {
+          ...(failure.evidence ?? {}),
+          allowedTools: ["bash:git-log", "bash:git-rev-parse", "bash:git-diff", "fn_task_create"],
+        },
+      },
+    });
+
+    if (result.outcome === "resolved") {
+      await this.issueRetry(failure, decision, ctx);
+      return;
+    }
+
+    await this.emitIrreduciblePause(ctx.task, failure, "ai-session-unresolved", {
+      outcome: result.outcome,
+      ...(result.metadata ?? {}),
+    });
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/engine/src/auto-recovery-handlers/file-scope.ts b/packages/engine/src/auto-recovery-handlers/file-scope.ts
index e0c464fa0..66a3bb6d2 100644
--- a/packages/engine/src/auto-recovery-handlers/file-scope.ts
+++ b/packages/engine/src/auto-recovery-handlers/file-scope.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { exec } from "node:child_process";
 import { promisify } from "node:util";
-import type { ProjectSettings, Task, TaskStore } from "@fusion/core";
+import type { ProjectSettings, TaskStore } from "@fusion/core";
 import type { AutoRecoveryContext, AutoRecoveryDecision, AutoRecoveryFailure } from "../auto-recovery.js";
 import type { Logger } from "../logger.js";
 import type { RunAuditor } from "../run-audit.js";
diff --git a/packages/engine/src/executor.ts b/packages/engine/src/executor.ts
index a63a2f737..c5460bd21 100644
--- a/packages/engine/src/executor.ts
+++ b/packages/engine/src/executor.ts
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ import { buildPromptLayers, collapsePromptLayers } from "./prompt-layers.js";
 import type { AgentReflectionService } from "./agent-reflection.js";
 import { createRunAuditor, generateSyntheticRunId, type EngineRunContext, type RunAuditor } from "./run-audit.js";
 import { AutoRecoveryDispatcher } from "./auto-recovery.js";
+import { BranchWorktreeAutoRecoveryHandler } from "./auto-recovery-handlers/branch-worktree.js";
 import { createFileScopeAutoRecoveryHandler } from "./auto-recovery-handlers/file-scope.js";
 import { ReadonlyViolationError, filterCustomToolsForReadonly } from "./workflow-step-tool-policy.js";
 import { evaluateSpecStaleness, getPromptPath } from "./spec-staleness.js";
@@ -842,12 +843,27 @@ export class TaskExecutor {
       classifyPatchIds: async () => ({ unique: [], alreadyUpstream: [] }),
       settings: () => ({ autoRecovery: { mode: "deterministic-only", maxRetries: 3 } } as ProjectSettings),
     });
+    const branchWorktreeHandler = new BranchWorktreeAutoRecoveryHandler({
+      taskStore: this.store,
+      runAudit: audit,
+      logger: executorLog,
+    });
     return new AutoRecoveryDispatcher({
       taskStore: this.store,
       auditEmitter: audit,
       handlers: {
-        issueRetry: fileScopeHandler.issueRetry.bind(fileScopeHandler),
-        spawnAiRecovery: fileScopeHandler.spawnAiRecovery.bind(fileScopeHandler),
+        issueRetry: async (failure, decision, ctx) => {
+          if (failure.class === "branch-conflict-unrecoverable") {
+            return branchWorktreeHandler.issueRetry(failure, decision, ctx);
+          }
+          return fileScopeHandler.issueRetry(failure, decision, ctx);
+        },
+        spawnAiRecovery: async (failure, decision, ctx) => {
+          if (failure.class === "branch-conflict-unrecoverable") {
+            return branchWorktreeHandler.spawnAiRecovery(failure, decision, ctx);
+          }
+          return fileScopeHandler.spawnAiRecovery(failure, decision, ctx);
+        },
       },
     });
   }
diff --git a/packages/engine/src/run-audit.ts b/packages/engine/src/run-audit.ts
index 24d01f9a4..ac0fa130a 100644
--- a/packages/engine/src/run-audit.ts
+++ b/packages/engine/src/run-audit.ts
@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ export type DatabaseMutationType =
   | "auto-recovery:retry-issued"
   | "auto-recovery:ai-session-spawned"
   | "auto-recovery:pause-because-destructive-ambiguity"
+  | "branch-worktree:auto-requeue"
+  | "branch-worktree:ai-session-spawned"
+  | "branch-worktree:irreducible-pause"
   | "document:write"
   | "workflow-step:result"
   | "agent:create:requested"