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magus-clean

Remove declared outputs (regenerable, never sources)

Synopsis

magus clean [flags] [project...]

Description

Remove the declared Outputs of the selected projects. With no project arguments the cwd project (or the whole workspace, from the root) is selected.

These are the same files the cache snapshots and replays on a hit. Whether each one is regenerable is the declaration's claim, not something clean verifies - so a file magus only modifies rather than produces belongs in ctx.modifiesExistingFiles, which clean never removes. Nor does it remove an output the VCS tracks: that file is committed, and deleting it would dirty the tree. Preview with the global --dry-run flag before trusting a declaration you have not read.

--cache additionally invalidates the magus cache entries for those projects, which is what forces a genuinely full rebuild: removing the files alone leaves the entries that would replay them.

Options

--cache
Also invalidate magus cache entries for the selected projects

Examples

Preview what would be removed

magus clean --dry-run

Clean one project

magus clean web

Clean and force a full rebuild

magus clean --cache

See Also

magus(1), magus-ls(1), magus-describe(1), magus-where(1), magus-run(1), magus-affected(1), magus-x(1), magus-shell(1), magus-query(1), magus-refs(1), magus-explain(1), magus-path(1), magus-graph(1), magus-diff(1), magus-vcs(1), magus-session(1), magus-job(1), magus-notes(1), magus-queue(1), magus-watch(1), magus-events(1), magus-server(1), magus-broker(1), magus-mcp(1), magus-status(1), magus-buzz(1), magus-spell(1), magus-agent(1), magus-init(1), magus-doctor(1), magus-config(1), magus-completion(1), magus-man(1), magus-self(1), magus-version(1)

ManpagePages in this section. magus graphEmit the project dependency DAG, export the knowledge graph for external graph tools, and report the graph's shape (god nodes, orphans, doc coverage). SpellsA spell is a library of tool-native ops (go-build, cargo-clippy, eslint) plus cache metadata that your magusfile composes into runnable targets. ChangelogEvery change to magus, newest first, in Keep a Changelog format, starting with the unreleased entries. Generated from changes/unreleased/ and releases/*.yaml.
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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.

Project

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

Spell

A language/runtime adapter (e.g. go, md) that maps generic targets onto a toolchain's real commands. Spell in full.

Buzz

The language magusfiles are written in (the .buzz engine). Buzz in full.

Cache

The content-addressed store magus consults before running a target, so unchanged work is skipped. Cache in full.

Affected

The set of projects touched by a change; magus affected <target> runs a target only over them. Affected 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.

Snapshot

A point-in-time view of live state (the pool's occupancy or a tick of exported metrics), as opposed to accumulated history. Snapshot in full.

MAGUS.md

The committed routing index at a workspace root, regenerated from the knowledge graph: it lists every node and points at the exact query for a given question, so it is the entry point an agent reads first. MAGUS.md 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.

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. Session 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.

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.

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