The comment cited 89 registered worktrees against 20 on disk as evidence of stale
registrations. That comparison was against .worktrees/ alone; all 89 registrations
exist, spread across kb-worktrees, orca workspaces and .claude/worktrees. Prune
still belongs before removal on ordering grounds -- a dangling registration fails
the removal, and the throw skips the trailing prune so the retry never clears it --
but the false measurement should not stand as the justification.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>