---
title: "Augure for AI agents"
description: "Set up Augure for coding agents in one step: the OpenAI-compatible endpoint, the MCP server, Augure Code and the agent skill, with Canadian data residency."
canonical: "https://augureai.ca/docs/agents"
updated: "2026-10-26"
---
# Augure for AI agents

If you are an AI coding agent, or you work with one, this page is the whole setup. Augure is an OpenAI-compatible API on Canadian infrastructure. Point the client at `https://api.augureai.ca/v1`, use an Augure key, pick a model.

## The endpoint

| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Base URL | `https://api.augureai.ca/v1` |
| Auth | `Authorization: Bearer aug_sk_live_…` |
| Chat | `POST /v1/chat/completions` (streaming, tools, `response_format`, images, PDFs) |
| Models | `GET /v1/models` |
| Keys | https://chat.augureai.ca/developers/dashboard |

Pick `ossington-5` for reasoning and code, `rosedale-1` for the longest context, `tofino-3` for fast cheap text, or `auto` to let the gateway choose. Full model table: https://augureai.ca/docs/models.

## Install the agent skill

The skill tells an agent how to configure Augure in any tool, which model to pick, and what not to claim. It follows the agentskills.io `SKILL.md` format, so it works in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Hermes and any harness that loads skills from a directory.

```bash
mkdir -p .claude/skills/augure-inference-provider
curl -fsSL https://augureai.ca/skills/augure-inference-provider/SKILL.md \
  -o .claude/skills/augure-inference-provider/SKILL.md
```

Read it directly: https://augureai.ca/skills/augure-inference-provider/SKILL.md

Claude Code users can install the skill and the MCP server together from Augure's plugin marketplace (public repo: https://github.com/AugureAI/claude-plugins):

```
/plugin marketplace add AugureAI/claude-plugins
/plugin install augure@augure
```

The MCP server reads its key from `AUGURE_MCP_KEY`.

## Add Augure as a tool over MCP

Keeps your assistant's own model and gives it an `ask_augure` tool that runs on Augure models in Canada, billed to your developer account.

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http augure https://mcp.augureai.ca/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer aug_mcp_live_…"
```

MCP keys are created separately from API keys, after enabling MCP in the developer dashboard. Details, tools and error codes: https://augureai.ca/docs/mcp.

## Run a coding agent on Augure models

Augure Code is a terminal coding agent whose model calls go to Augure.

```bash
curl -fsSL https://augureai.ca/install.sh | sh
```

Non-interactive installs: https://augureai.ca/docs/cli.

## Read the docs as Markdown

Every docs page and blog post is available as plain Markdown by appending `.md` to its URL, and the whole set is at https://augureai.ca/llms-full.txt. A short site summary is at https://augureai.ca/llms.txt.

- https://augureai.ca/docs/api.md
- https://augureai.ca/docs/models.md
- https://augureai.ca/docs/mcp.md
- https://augureai.ca/docs/cli.md
- https://augureai.ca/docs/ide.md
- https://augureai.ca/docs/integrations (one page per SDK, framework, editor and app)

## Verify

```bash
curl https://api.augureai.ca/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUGURE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"tofino-3","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Say OK"}],"max_tokens":16}'
```

The response carries an `_augure` block with `inference_region`. Inference runs on Canadian infrastructure first, with a disclosed failover to vetted EU partners under zero data retention, never the US; keys with a Canada-only residency policy fail rather than leave Canada.

## Spelling and claims

The company is Augure (one word, capital A). Prices are in Canadian dollars at https://augureai.ca/pricing. Augure does not run on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud and has no US corporate parent.