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agent-sign-off

A deny rule by default: it refuses an agent stamping a read receipt or closing an attention request, which only a person may do, and names what to run instead.

What it catches

An agent stamping a read receipt or closing an attention request, which only a person may do.

Why

This is not a permission an agent is missing: there is no spelling of either an agent may use, because an agent stamping the changeset or closing its own block would make the measure mean nothing for everybody, including the human relying on it. Report what is unread instead: magus diff --impact names every changed file carrying no receipt, and magus diff -o json puts read_state on each file for a caller to branch on. Waiting on a request instead: say you are waiting on its id and hand it back; magus session dispose <id> is a person's to run.

Default and override

By default this rule takes the decision deny. A workspace sets it by name, in its root magusfile, to deny, advise or off:

magus\guard.builtins({"agent-sign-off": "advise"})

A loosening takes effect once it is committed; a tightening applies at once.

Seeing it

A verdict names its rule in brackets, which is how you got here:

deny [agent-sign-off]: ...

A workspace that sets this rule to advise sees advise [agent-sign-off]: ... instead.

magus describe rule agent-sign-off prints the same entry at a terminal, and magus describe rules lists every rule this workspace enforces.

See also

guardrulesagent-sign-offdeny
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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.

Magusfile

The magusfile.buzz that declares a project's targets (as export funs) and binds its spells. Magusfile 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.

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.

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.

Attention request

A durable record that an agent is blocked, opened by a magus session notify event and held until a person disposes it. Nothing closes one on its own. Attention request in full.

Dispose

The human act of closing an attention request: a judgment rendered, recorded with who and why. Distinct from resolving a review thread or a merge conflict: a disposition answers a request; it does not merge anything. Dispose 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.

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.