Crux Agents – AI specialists that do the work, with your approval.
26 ready-made agents – Project Manager, Scrum, Sales, Support, QA, DevOps and more – pick up real work from your Redmine and propose changes. Bigger goals run as work packages with approval gates, and every run is recorded in the Run Ledger. Builds on Crux Chat.
Crux Agents is the working part of Redmineflux AI: 26 ready-made agents that pick up issues and propose changes, pipelines with approval gates for bigger goals, and a Run Ledger with every run’s time, tokens, cost and result. It builds on Crux Chat and the MCP Server. Sold together with Crux Chat and the MCP Server as the Redmineflux AI Bundle – $1,099 one-time for self-hosted Redmine. On Managed Cloud, Redmineflux AI is a monthly add-on. AI for Redmine overview →
- Progress: 58 issues, 18% complete – 24 new, 7 in progress, 7 resolved
- Milestones: R1–R3 active; R3 due 25 Sep, 13 days overdue
- Risk: #450337 flagged Immediate, awaiting feedback
Crux wants to make this change. Nothing happens until you confirm.
AI can write a plan, but it cannot touch the project – or it touches too much.
Generic assistants don’t know your issues, your versions or who is busy. Give one write access and nobody can say afterwards what it changed, what it cost, or who said yes. So the useful work still happens by hand.
People stay in control at every step.
In chat, every change Crux proposes is shown to you first and runs only after you confirm it. Larger pieces of work follow pipelines with approval gates, and work cannot move past a gate until a person approves it.
Every run is logged in the Run Ledger with its time, tokens, cost and result – a full, auditable history.
What is Crux Agents?
Crux Agents turns Crux Chat into a team of specialists. Each agent is good at one area of your work – Project Manager, Scrum, Capacity, Time, Sales, Budget, Invoicing, Support, Knowledge Base, QA, Reviewer, Test Author, DevOps and more. They pick up real work from your Redmine and propose changes; you approve.
Bigger goals run as work packages through pipelines with approval gates, and every run is kept in the Run Ledger. Agents live inside Redmineflux – same pages, permissions and look as the rest of the suite.
Agents that work. People who decide.
Pick a shift to see what changes in the product. They play on their own – hover to pause.
Work that gets picked up, not just discussed.
Tag an issue as ready for an agent and the specialist whose skills match picks it up from the Ready Queue – drafting the reply, the test cases or the plan – and proposes the result for your approval.
The right specialist, automatically.
Crux routes each question to the agent whose skills match – Project Manager, Sales, Support, Time, QA and more. You can also pick an agent yourself.
Changes proposed, never forced.
When a request would change data, Crux shows the exact change as an approval card first. It runs only after you click Confirm.
Bigger goals as work packages.
A work package moves through clear stages – plan, develop, test, review, deliver – with approval gates at the important steps that wait for a person to sign off.
Every run recorded.
Each agent run lands in the Run Ledger with its time, tokens, cost and result. Dashboards show outcomes delivered, spend, what needs your attention and what agents did last.
The specifics, for people who want them.
26 ready-made agents in 5 groups – or add your own.
- Project delivery: Project Manager, Scrum, Capacity, Time, Project Setup
- Sales and finance: Sales, Budget, Invoicing
- Support and knowledge: Support, Knowledge Base
- Engineering and quality: QA, Reviewer, Code Reviewer, Test Author, Docs Writer, Monitor, Alert Triage, Root-Cause Analyst, Auto-Fixer, DevOps
- Each agent has a profile: skills, model, monthly spend cap, success rate – pause it or give it its own Redmine identity
Work packages with approval gates.
- Built-in pipelines: Software feature (7 stages, 3 gates), Document (5 / 2), Bug fix (7 / 2)
- Duplicate and adapt any pipeline, or create your own
- Autonomy per work package: suggest-only, execute-with-approval or autonomous
- Approve a gate directly from the work packages page
Safety and budgets.
- Frozen rules – fields no agent may ever change, whatever is approved
- Monthly spending cap per agent; daily chat cap per user
- Crux permissions granted per Redmine role
- Run Ledger with every run’s time, tokens, cost and outcome; technical activity log
Your model, your data.
- Anthropic, OpenAI and Google Gemini built in
- Any OpenAI-compatible endpoint – OpenRouter or a local Ollama server
- API keys kept masked in the Crux key store
- Works with Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor through the MCP server
What Crux Agents changes for each role.
Project Manager
Ask for a project summary and get progress, milestones and risks from live data – then let the Project Manager agent create the follow-up issues, each one confirmed by you.
Engineering Lead
Run a feature as a work package: plan, develop, test, review, deliver – with gates you approve and a work graph of who did what.
Support Lead
The Support agent drafts replies from the knowledge base and proposes ticket updates; nothing is sent or changed without a person’s Confirm.
CTO / IT Director
Frozen rules, budgets per agent and per user, role-based permissions and a complete Run Ledger – AI you can show an auditor.
Crux Agents gets better with these.
Three ways to get Crux Agents.
MCP Server + Crux Chat + Crux Agents
- Crux Agents is sold together with the other two – they build on each other
- 1 year of support included
- Renew support at 30% per year
- No licence keys · up to 100 users per installation · full source
Up to 100 users are included in every licence – nothing to add.
They build on each other
The MCP Server connects your Redmine, Crux Chat talks to it, and Crux Agents do the work through Chat – so they are sold together, 15% below the $1,297 they would cost one by one.
How the three fit together →Redmineflux AI add-on
Every Cloud package can add Redmineflux AI – MCP Server, Crux Chat and Crux Agents – as a monthly add-on with a usage cap, because we pay for the model usage. Pricing is being finalised.
Ask about AI on Cloud →Questions teams ask before adopting Crux Agents.
If yours isn’t here, check the pricing page or write to support@redmineflux.com.
Can an agent change data without asking?+
No. In chat, a proposed change is only a card until a person confirms it. Work packages cannot move past an approval gate without a person, whatever the autonomy level. Frozen rules are hard limits that no approval can bypass.
Which AI providers do the agents work with?+
Anthropic, OpenAI and Google Gemini are built in. Any OpenAI-compatible endpoint can be added, such as OpenRouter or a local Ollama server. API keys are stored masked in the Crux key store.
Is Crux Agents available on self-hosted Redmine and on Cloud?+
Self-hosted: yes, in the Redmineflux AI Bundle – $1,099 one-time with 1 year of support, licensed per installation for up to 100 users. On Managed Cloud, Redmineflux AI is a monthly add-on to your package (we pay for the model usage, so it is metered) – pricing is being finalised.
How do we get started?+
Administrators set Crux up once: connect Crux to the Crux core service, add an AI provider and API key, enable the Crux module in each project, grant Crux permissions to the roles that need them, and optionally add agents. After that, everyone can use Ask Crux from the chat bubble on any page.
How much does Crux Agents cost?+
Crux Agents is sold together with Crux Chat and the MCP Server as the Redmineflux AI Bundle: $1,099 one-time for self-hosted Redmine – 1 year of support included, then support renews at 30% per year.
Do we need Crux Chat to use Crux Agents?+
Yes. Crux Agents is the addition to Crux Chat: the chat is how you ask, approve and talk to an agent, and the MCP Server is the connection both use to read and update Redmine. The Redmineflux AI Bundle contains all three.
Every Redmineflux plugin
Crux Agents running inside your Redmine.
Part of the Redmineflux AI Bundle – $1,099 one-time on self-hosted Redmine, or an optional monthly add-on on Managed Cloud.