Keeping JIRA tickets clean, detailed, and actually useful is still one of the most repetitive and error-prone parts of modern software development. PRDs live in one place, commits in another, discussions in Google Chat/Slack/Teams, and tickets often end up as shallow summaries that no one wants to maintain.
Tickets that start vague. PRDs that drift from what actually gets built. Stories that look “done” but quietly hide missing work. And the slow, invisible debt of rewriting the same context again and again across JIRA, docs, and pull requests.
That gap is exactly what Augment is built to address.
Augment is a self-hosted, AI-powered system designed to automate how JIRA tickets are written, broken down, and kept in sync with real engineering work.
So instead of trying to build something big, the goal was to start with something small and concrete:
- Better ticket descriptions
- Clearer task breakdowns
- More visible dependencies
- Fewer silent gaps between planning and execution
That’s how Augment was born.
Augment is a self-hosted, AI-assisted system that helps teams:
- Turn rough JIRA tickets into clearer, richer descriptions
- Break down stories and epics into actionable backend, frontend, and QA tasks
- Expose missing work before it becomes technical debt
- Keep documentation closer to what’s actually being built
It’s split into two parts:
- augment: the backend engine that connects JIRA with large language models
- augment-ui: a simple web interface to operate everything visually
Together, they form a quiet assistant sitting next to your backlog. Augment is built around one principle: Nothing should change in JIRA without a human reviewing it first. Every operation is preview-first:
- Generate → Review → Edit → Apply
- Never generate and pray
- Never blind automation
Augment is designed to earn trust slowly. Healthy engineering environments aren’t created by one massive transformation. They’re built through small, boring, consistent improvements:
- Clearer tickets
- Fewer assumptions
- Better task visibility
- Less undocumented work
- Less mental overhead
Augment focuses on these small improvements because that’s where real leverage lives. It’s not trying to be a silver bullet. It’s trying to be a reliable wrench.
Both repositories are still early. They are:
- Used for internal experiments
- Shaped by real backlog pain
- Iterated directly against real JIRA workflows
They are not polished SaaS products. They are working tools in progress. And that’s intentional.
Here is the repositories:
Backend engine:
https://github.com/deptz/augment
Web interface:
https://github.com/deptz/augment-ui