Target
A named operation (build, test, ...) you invoke with magus run <target>; it may compose a spell's tool-native operations and depend on other targets. Target in full.
Broker
The per-user background process that holds this host's capacity: the machine budget every run claims slots from, and the shared services runs keep warm. A run starts it on demand; broker: off in magus.yaml runs without one. Broker in full.
Daemon
The background process a person starts with magus server start. It serves MCP, the console, background jobs and the warm knowledge graph, and adopts nested magus calls into one pool. Daemon in full.
CI
An ordinary target you compose yourself with ctx.needs; magus does not hardcode its stages. It is the anchor magus affected ci keys off, and ci strips the rw charm. CI in full.
Pool
The concurrency pool: the shared set of slots that caps how many targets run in parallel on one machine. Its capacity defaults to MAGUS_CONCURRENCY, then 4 on GitHub-hosted runners, then min(NumCPU, 8); magus status and the dashboard report it live. Pool in full.
Concurrency
How many targets run at once. It is bounded by the pool's capacity and set with --concurrency, MAGUS_CONCURRENCY, or the concurrency config key. Concurrency in full.
Knowledge graph
The queryable graph of a workspace's spells, targets, docs, and code relationships; query it with magus query/explain/path. Knowledge graph in full.
Invocation
One magus process's recorded facts (the targets it finished, their outcomes, the lease it acted as, and the session it ran in when a host delivered one), kept in a repo-scoped store every worktree shares. magus session lists them; the store prunes itself by last-fact age. Invocation in full.
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. Run in full.