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buzzword-weak

An advisory by default: it explains, and blocks nothing, on a buzzword that also has an ordinary sense ("crucial", "landscape").

What it catches

A buzzword that also has an ordinary sense ("crucial", "landscape").

Dimension

economy: words that carry nothing. A finding is counted on the dimension of its rule, the cost it names to the reader.

Why

These words are tells in a cluster and plain words alone, so the rule advises: one tell proves nothing.

Default decision

The code is PRF4007. The decision depends on the kind of text judged:

Kind Default
reference advise
principle advise
guide advise
change-description advise
agent-brief advise
commit-message advise
issue advise
release-notes advise
changelog advise
review-summary advise
review-inline advise
review-reply advise
agent-reply advise
agent-compact advise

Changing it

A decisions table sets this rule to deny, advise or off, for everything judged or for the files a glob matches. Proofread reads the table from the file its -decisions flag names:

{
  "rules": {"buzzword-weak": "deny"},
  "paths": {"blog/**": {"buzzword-weak": "off"}}
}

rules applies to every file. A glob in paths applies to the files it matches, and the last match wins. A rule set to off never reports.

Seeing it

A finding names the rule, its code and the decision that applies, and links here:

{"rule": "buzzword-weak", "code": "PRF4007", "decision": "advise", "url": "https://eli.gladman.cc/magus/reference/proofread/buzzword-weak/"}

proofread rules prints this entry with every other rule's.

See also

proofreadrulesbuzzword-weakadvise
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Glossary

Buzz

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

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.

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.

Advisor

One read-only check from the advice suite: it reads the changeset through magus and writes one titled section of findings. The same advisors run as a pull request comment in CI and inside magus diff --impact locally. Advisor in full.

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