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split-run

An advisory by default: it explains, and blocks nothing, on the same target run again on a different project set, as a separate call.

What it catches

The same target run again on a different project set, as a separate call.

Why

magus run and magus affected take one target and many projects, so the same target run twice on two project sets is usually one call typed as two: magus run lint . docs covers what magus run lint . and magus run lint docs would otherwise cost as two workspace loads. It compares the session's last magus run/affected invocation against this one: same target, same charms, a different project set, inside a ten-minute window. The one-line shape (magus run lint . && magus run lint docs) is chained-run's, which refuses it and names the combined call. Charms count as part of the target identity, so lint and lint:rw are never combined into one call. Held to one firing per session.

Default and override

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

magus\guard.builtins({"split-run": "off"})

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 [split-run]: ...

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

See also

guardrulessplit-runadvise
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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.

Magusfile

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

Target

A named operation (build, test, ...) you invoke with magus run <target>; it may compose a spell's tool-native operations and depend on other targets. Target in full.

Charm

An execution modifier attached with : (lint:rw) that changes how a target runs, not which one; the built-in rw flips a check-only target to mutate in place, and ci always strips it. Charm in full.

Buzz

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

Affected

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

Invocation

One magus process's recorded facts (the targets it finished, their outcomes, the lease it acted as, and the session it ran in when a host delivered one), kept in a repo-scoped store every worktree shares. magus session lists them; the store prunes itself by last-fact age. Invocation in full.

Window

The terminal a command runs in. It keys fire-once notices for a caller no host gave a session, and is never recorded as a session. Window 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.

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.

Conventions

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