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Evidence record · captured 2026-10-11
Augustus: AI Project Lead
Retenta's flagship skill: an agent that kicks off or resumes a software project, interviews the owner, keeps docs/ and GitHub Issues as one record, and delegates work through approved plans and reviewed pull requests.
Official publisherUnverifiedSource reviewedBehavior not tested
Source review
Editorial assessment
This is a source-only assessment. It does not claim runtime or security testing.
What it does
Augustus gives a coding agent a complete operating model for running a project rather than a single task: it separates kickoff from resume, makes the owner the only decision-maker, and keeps a durable written record that the next session can pick up without re-asking settled questions.
Best for
- Starting a new software project with an agent from an empty folder or an inherited codebase
- Resuming a project across sessions, machines, or different agent CLIs
- Coordinating several agents on one repository through issues, branches, and pull requests
Strengths in the source
- Requires owner approval before dispatching work and before anything hard to undo, such as creating repositories or paid cloud resources.
- Pairs docs/ with GitHub Issues and gives a reconcile step for when the two disagree.
- Treats retrieved text as information rather than instructions, which matters when it runs next to a knowledge base.
- Ends every session with a written next step, so work does not depend on chat history.
Limitations
- It is a process skill: it directs how work is organized and recorded, not how any particular stack is built.
- The specialist roster (Agrippa, Cicero, Seneca, Fabius, Vitruvius) is named but not yet published, so Augustus covers those roles itself.
- CLI skill locations and hook support change between versions; the skill tells the agent to verify them rather than asserting them.
When not to use it
- One-off questions or small edits that need no project record
- Repositories where the team already runs a different planning and review process the agent must follow
Reviewed by Retenta editorial on 2026-10-11; scope: source only.
Files included in this review
skills/augustus/SKILL.mdskills/augustus/LICENSEskills/augustus/metadata.json
Evidence and boundaries
The skill bundles no scripts. No independent security scan or behavioral sandbox result is claimed.
- Public source snapshot
- skills/augustus/SKILL.md
- Revision
- 263bba68ceb49286d9e64e5bcef2d481e57c1b85
- License evidence
- MITThe hosted license snapshot is the MIT license shipped beside Augustus at the pinned revision.
- Last source change
- 2026-10-11
- Independent verification
- Published by Retenta, but not independently verified by a third-party reviewer.
- Upstream repository
- Not publicly accessible at capture; the immutable public snapshot above is the cited evidence.
Compatibility
Claude Code
documentedThe skill ships Claude Code frontmatter and a CLAUDE.md adoption line; not tested by Retenta.
Codex
documentedThe skill ships an AGENTS.md adoption line; not tested by Retenta.
Gemini CLI
documentedThe skill ships a GEMINI.md adoption line; not tested by Retenta.
Requirements and access
- git in the project
- An authenticated GitHub CLI (gh) for issues and pull requests (optional; local task IDs work without it)
- Owner approval for any repository, cloud resource, or public change
Referenced tools
No named tool is required by the reviewed SKILL.md.
Install from the source
This installs SKILL.md only. The overview, todo-list and decisions templates belong to the full skill folder; without them Augustus builds those files from the section lists in its own instructions. Other agents adopt it through the AGENTS.md or GEMINI.md line described in the skill.
Verify the publisher's install documentationClaude Code personal skill
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/augustus
curl -fsSL https://retenta.ai/skills/sources/263bba68ceb49286d9e64e5bcef2d481e57c1b85/augustus.SKILL.md -o ~/.claude/skills/augustus/SKILL.mdThyme RAG Capsules
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