---
title: Lease
order: 8
description: "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."
tags: [glossary, sessions-and-leases]
---

# 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.

## Elsewhere

In distributed systems a lease is a time-bound lock a holder renews (an etcd lease, a
Kubernetes Lease object). A magus lease grants write and read paths over one job, and its
bound is the job's timeout, not a renewal.

## Example

```sh
magus job exec my-job
```

## Used in

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In the docs:

- [A lease narrows it further](../concepts/sandbox.md#a-lease-narrows-it-further)
- [lease-checkout](../decisions/0015-a-call-runs-where-its-line-says.md#lease-checkout)
- [Correlating a spawn to a lease](../guides/integrations/agents/any-host.md#correlating-a-spawn-to-a-lease)
- [Lease capture](../guides/integrations/agents/claude-code.md#lease-capture)
- [lease-checkout](../reference/rules/lease-checkout.md#lease-checkout)
- [lease-claim](../reference/rules/lease-claim.md#lease-claim)

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

- `tty.Lease` (Go)

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## See also

- [Job](job.md)
- [Lease id](lease-id.md)