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cd

A deny rule: it refuses a cd before a magus command, when the project is an argument, and names what to run instead.

What it catches

A cd before a magus command, when the project is an argument.

Why

magus is CWD-relative, so a leading cd is how the right command lands on the wrong project. The project is an argument and is written bare (magus run build libs/foo); a DIFFERENT workspace is --root <path>, and magus where <name> resolves a fuzzy name. A cd prefix also relocates every later command on the line and re-fires shell chpwd hooks, mise among them, which can fail on an empty command. A cd alone on its line passes: it relocates nothing after it, and on a host whose shell persists it is how a session moves into its own checkout. A host shell tool that genuinely needs a different directory for one call has a working_directory field, which does not rewrite the command line.

Seeing it

A verdict names its rule in brackets, which is how you got here:

deny [cd]: ...

magus describe rule cd prints the same entry at a terminal, and magus describe rules lists every rule this workspace enforces.

See also

  • All rules - what this workspace enforces, deny first
  • The guard - how a verdict is reached and wired
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Glossary

Workspace

The magus root directory that owns a set of projects and shared config; the unit magus operates over. See workspace.

Project

A directory magus recognizes as a unit of work (it has a magusfile); the unit of caching, scheduling, and dependency tracking. See workspace.

Session

An agent host's conversation, by the id the host delivers to its hooks. magus never mints one: a record with no session is unattributed, and the OS user it carries says whose account ran it.

Run

One target executing under one magus invocation, such as magus run test web or magus affected ci. A run keeps its captured output behind an output reference. Every magus run is a run whether or not any job asked for it; see Job for how the two relate.

Conventions

Placeholders

Angle brackets mark a value you replace with your own - never type the brackets:

magus run <target>
magus completion <shell>    # e.g. bash, zsh, fish

<target>, <path>, <shell>, <name> and the like are stand-ins, not literal text.