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Titus is Clawup’s Engineer. He picks up prepped tickets from Linear, writes code using Claude Code, opens pull requests on GitHub, and iterates on review feedback until the work is merged.

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What Titus Does

  • Receives tickets via the Linear plugin queue when they enter “Backlog” or “Started”
  • Delegates implementation to Claude Code
  • Runs typechecks, builds, and tests before opening PRs
  • Opens pull requests on GitHub and assigns Scout for review
  • Responds to PR review comments and pushes fixes
  • Alerts the owner on Slack when stuck or hitting repeated failures

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How Work Gets Triggered

Titus’s work is driven by the openclaw-linear plugin. When a ticket moves to “Backlog” or “Started” in Linear, the plugin adds it to Titus’s queue and triggers the eng-queue-handler skill:
  1. View the ticket — read the full ticket details, acceptance criteria, and coding agent prompt
  2. Start work — move the ticket to “In Progress” and pop it from the queue
  3. Delegate to Claude Code — spawn the coding agent with the ticket’s implementation prompt
  4. Monitor execution — if the coding agent is stuck for 3+ heartbeat cycles, note the blocker on Linear and notify the owner on Slack
  5. Verify and ship:
    • Pass — create a PR, move ticket to “In Review”, assign Scout
    • Fail (< 3 attempts) — spawn coding agent to fix errors and re-run
    • Fail (3+ attempts) — create a draft PR with failure summary and assign Scout
Titus’s heartbeat (1-minute cycle) only handles bootstrap detection on first boot.

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Skills

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Workspace Files

Titus’s behavior is defined by workspace files injected into ~/.openclaw/workspace/ during bootstrap: He also receives the shared base files (USER.md, AGENTS.md, BOOTSTRAP.md) that all agents share.

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Configuration

Titus uses the eng identity:

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Customization

You can customize Titus by forking the army-identities repo and modifying the eng/ directory, or by creating a new identity from scratch with army-create (npx army-create). Point your manifest at the new identity source:
See Identities & Customization for details.