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Console

The browser app that reads a magus workspace: a tabbed, tiling page hosting the log viewer, graph explorer, dashboard, and activity trail. It is a separate static app, not something the daemon serves; the daemon exposes a loopback API it calls: read-only views plus one bearer-gated job-control service for maintenance jobs.

Elsewhere

A browser's developer console and a terminal emulator are both called a console. The magus console is neither: it is a separate web app that reads a workspace.

Example

magus server start

Used in

In the docs:

In the code (magus refs <name> lists every site):

  • config.Console (Go)
  • playground.Console (Go)

See also

Jobs and leasesWhat magus gives an agent that fans work out (the working-state checkpoint, the declared job store, the lease a holder takes on a job, the console Jobs view, the recorded spawn, and verifying a result against the diff since the checkpoint). ChangelogEvery change to magus, newest first, in Keep a Changelog format, starting with the unreleased entries. Generated from changes/unreleased/ and releases/*.yaml. The broker and the daemonmagus runs up to two background processes. The broker holds this host's capacity and shared services and a run starts it; the daemon serves MCP, the console and jobs and a person starts it. magus documentationThe magus documentation hub covering install, targets, spells, charms, operations, engines, remote caching, MCP, telemetry, and the interactive playground.
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Glossary

Workspace

The magus root directory that owns a set of projects and shared config; the unit magus operates over. Workspace in full.

Op

A single tool-native command a target composes (long form: operation); the middle of the work hierarchy (Spell to Op to Target). Op in full.

Service

A long-running or shared process magus manages across runs, distinct from a one-shot target. Service 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.

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.

Agent

A model working through an agent host such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or OpenCode. magus treats an agent as one more caller of its CLI, MCP tools and console, held to the same checks as a person. Agent in full.

Job

The unit of delegated work, and one row of the job store: what an orchestrating agent handed out, with its goal, the checkpoint it was cut against, the paths it may write or must not touch, and the one check it runs. A job's holder is either a session, for work an orchestrator handed out, or the daemon, for its own maintenance. The store records; the agent guard is what reads those facts back when grading a write. Job in full.

Lease

The grant a holder takes on a job: the write and read paths that job declared, enforced in the checkout that took it with magus job exec. A job is the piece of work; a lease is permission over it. Lease in full.

Console app

One of the console applications (Runs, Log Viewer, Graph Explorer, Dashboard, Activity Trail, Settings), mounted into a tab or a pane. Each is single-instance. Console app in full.

The URL that points an app at a running daemon. The daemon serves the console from its own loopback origin, so the link is that origin plus the app path and a bearer token in the fragment (http://127.0.0.1:7391/console/graph/#token=...). The daemon prints it; the console consumes the token, stores it, and strips it from the URL, so the secret never lingers in history or a copied link. The origin must be literal loopback: localhost and hostnames are rejected before any request. Without one, an app reads only what rides in the link itself. Live link in full.

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.