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stall

Off by default: once a workspace turns it on, it reports a leased worker refused by something only the root can clear.

What it catches

A leased worker refused by something only the root can clear.

Why

A worker blocked on its lease's boundary or on a magus that cannot load the tree waits and reports again, and the root hears late. When lease-write, lease-vcs, lease-harness, lease-rebind, lease-undeclared or stale-binary refuses a leased worker, the refusal's verdict line ends with the job's exit, the block named as an unresolved risk, and one attention row per lease and rule states the facts: the job, the rule, the model it ran on and how often it was refused. It names no remedy, and never refuses anything itself. A refusal repeating the last one, and a run of refused calls (a calls parameter sets its length), are recorded per lease and said to no one.

Default and override

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

magus\guard.builtins({"stall": "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:

advise [stall]: ...

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

See also

guardrulesstalloff
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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.

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.

Harness

The deterministic scaffolding around the work on a change, for a person or an agent: compiler errors, formatters, linters, checks, gates, leases and hooks, placed at points a person chose. Around an agent's loop, magus supplies one and keeps it outside. Harness in full.

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.

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.

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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