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precedent-search

An advisory by default: it explains, and blocks nothing, on a hunt for one distinctive name, which refs answers with verified sites.

What it catches

A hunt for one distinctive name, which refs answers with verified sites.

Why

A precedent hunt is a search for one distinctive name, and it is the search the graph answers best: refs lists verified sites, so you land on working code instead of assembling it from grep hits.

Default and override

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

magus\guard.builtins({"precedent-search": "deny"})

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:

advise [precedent-search]: ...

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

See also

ReferencePages in this section. brief-command: a spawn or continuation brief that teaches a command the guard deniesAn advisory by default: it explains, and blocks nothing, on a spawn or continuation brief that teaches a command the guard denies. busy-wait: a loop that only sleeps between polls, holding a tool slot for its whole waitAn advisory by default: it explains, and blocks nothing, on a loop that only sleeps between polls, holding a tool slot for its whole wait. buzz-unbriefed: the first Buzz a session authors, by file write or `magus buzz -e`, before reading the Buzz skillAn advisory by default: it explains, and blocks nothing, on the first Buzz a session authors, by file write or `magus buzz -e`, before reading the Buzz skill.
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Glossary

Workspace

The magus root directory that owns a set of projects and shared config; the unit magus operates over. See workspace.

Magusfile

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

Buzz

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

CI

An ordinary magusfile-defined target you compose yourself with magus\needs: magus does not hardcode its stages. Magus.RunCI treats it specially only in that it strips the rw charm, it is the anchor magus affected ci keys off, and a selected scope with no project declaring it is a load error rather than a silent no-op. See targets.

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.

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