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model-tier-context-cap

A deny rule by default: it refuses a leased worker writing past the context its job's model tier caps, and names what to run instead.

What it catches

A leased worker writing past the context its job's model tier caps.

Why

A model tier's bounds in the workspace's declaration can cap the context a worker at that tier reaches (maxContext), because a smaller model past a large context does worse work and resends all of it every turn. When a leased worker's context, as its host last reported it, passes the cap of the tier its row was forked at, every write under the lease is refused, as a lease past its deadline is, and the refusal says to report what it has and stop. Set to advise, the next write is told so once. A tier with no cap, a row with no tier, or a host that reports no context is never judged.

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({"model-tier-context-cap": "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 [model-tier-context-cap]: ...

A workspace that sets this rule to advise sees advise [model-tier-context-cap]: ... instead.

magus describe rule model-tier-context-cap prints the same entry at a terminal, and magus describe rules lists every rule this workspace enforces.

See also

guardrulesmodel-tier-context-capdeny
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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

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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.

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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.

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