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The GitHub repository holds the README, changelog, examples and issue tracker, not the source", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "`auggie login` in a browser stores a session token tied to the user. Automation passes the session JSON from `auggie token print` in `AUGMENT_SESSION_AUTH` or `--augment-session-json`, and `auggie token revoke` revokes all of a user's tokens. Team and Enterprise administrators can create service accounts whose API tokens don't expire until deleted.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Standard is $20 a month and Business $100 a month, each flat for up to 50 seats with the same amount of usage included, and Enterprise is by quote. Usage is billed at the model provider's list price plus a 40 per cent service fee, with pay-as-you-go top-ups. No free tier was found on the pricing page (checked 2026-10-18).", "priceSummary": "$20 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the pricing page or the changelog (checked 2026-10-18).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 16451, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-18" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.augmentcode.com/cli/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.augmentcode.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "tags": [ "official", "harness", "coding-agent", "cli", "closed-source", "mcp", "acp", "llms-txt", "sdk", "typescript", "python", "status-page", "no-sandbox", "paid-plans" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-21", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 51, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 932, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1253, "categoryRank": 37, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 20, "reliability": 43, "schema": 67, "security": 47, "transparency": 59 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-18" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Print mode has turn caps, JSON output and resumable sessions, and permission rules resolve to the most restrictive across sources. Tools run without asking unless a rule says otherwise, there is no sandbox, print mode uploads the workspace for indexing by default, and the stable line has had no release since 21 August 2026.", "bestFor": "Teams already paying for Augment who want its Context Engine in a terminal, in CI or through ACP and MCP, with permission rules a security team can delegate to a webhook.", "strengths": [ "`--print` with `--max-turns`, `--quiet`, `--output-format json` and `--show-credits`, plus `--continue` and `--resume` by session ID", "Permission rules allow, deny or hand a call to a webhook or a local script, and the most restrictive rule across sources wins", "An ACP agent mode, an MCP server mode and TypeScript and Python SDKs that drive the CLI over ACP", "Per-model token rates, the 40 per cent service fee and plan prices are published without a login", "npm builds are published from GitHub Actions through npm trusted publishing, and auto-update is off in print mode" ], "weaknesses": [ "No operating-system sandbox, and the MCP docs say Auggie runs commands and tools automatically", "Print mode indexes and uploads the workspace by default, except files matched by .gitignore or .augmentignore", "No free tier on the pricing page, and print mode may be switched off under an enterprise agreement", "The stable npm line is 0.36.0 of 21 August 2026, with 1.x builds only on the preview and daemon channels", "The licence, terms and privacy policy still name Augment Computing, Inc. after Harness bought the CLI on 8 October 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pass `--max-turns` with `--print` in pipelines to bound how many turns, and so how much usage, a run can take", "Commit deny rules to .augment/settings.json before an unattended run. Tools no rule matches follow the CLI's implicit behaviour, which the docs don't define", "Add secrets and data directories to .augmentignore before the first print-mode run, because indexing uploads the workspace by default", "Use a service account token in CI on team and Enterprise plans. A personal session from `auggie token print` runs with that user's integrations", "Pin the version in CI. `latest` is 0.x, while `preview` and `daemon` carry 1.x prereleases whose permission rules ignore some legacy tool names" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 51 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 58, "payments": 20, "reliability": 43, "schema": 67, "security": 47, "transparency": 35 }, "provenanceScore": 82, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-18", "maintenance": "2026-10-18", "payments": "2026-10-18", "reliability": "2026-10-18", "schema": "2026-10-18", "security": "2026-10-18", "transparency": "2026-10-18" }, "last": "2026-10-18", "lastMoved": "2026-10-27", "oldest": "2026-10-18", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g @augmentcode/auggie", "headless": { "command": "auggie --print --quiet --max-turns 10 \"$TASK\"", "env": { "AUGMENT_SESSION_AUTH": "\u003csession JSON from auggie token print\u003e" } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/auggie" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Standard plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 20, "note": "flat for up to 50 seats, with $20 of usage included" }, { "item": "Business plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 100, "note": "flat for up to 50 seats, with $100 of usage included" }, { "item": "Claude Sonnet 5.5 input", "unit": "1m-tokens", "usd": 2, "note": "provider list price, before the 40 per cent service fee" }, { "item": "Service fee on model usage", "unit": "pct", "usd": 40, "note": "added to LLM token charges, none on compute" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Augment Computing, Inc.", "domain": "augmentcode.com", "domainRegistered": "2022-06-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.augmentcode.com/legal/professional-terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.augmentcode.com/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.augmentcode.com", "changelog": "https://www.augmentcode.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-18", "notes": [ "The CLI licence, the Professional and Enterprise terms of service (v1.9, 28 August 2025) and the privacy policy (v1.2, 28 August 2025) name Augment Computing, Inc. None had changed by 18 October 2026, ten days after Harness announced it had acquired the CLI.", "Harness's announcement doesn't name the acquiring legal entity, so the listing doesn't name one.", "RDAP (Verisign) gives augmentcode.com a registration date of 2022-06-16.", "www.augmentcode.com/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on 18 October 2026. SECURITY.md in the repository gives security@augmentcode.com and GitHub private reporting.", "The website changelog has a CLI filter, with its newest CLI entry for 0.36.0 on 21 August 2026. The repository CHANGELOG.md lists versions without dates." ], "score": 82 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie.json", "live": { "slug": "auggie", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.augmentcode.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T22:08:36.550105564Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "augmentcode/auggie", "version": "v0.28.0", "released": "2026-05-22", "seenAt": "2026-11-01T16:44:01.127354904Z" } ], "githubStars": 290, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://augmentcode.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T15:43:03.420435867Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.augmentcode.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T15:12:58.323529613Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "augmentcode.com", "registered": "2022-06-16", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/augmentcode.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:11:37.457804513Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.augmentcode.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T06:56:51.974131434Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-01T06:56:51.974131434Z", "fingerprint": "874c825f1121" }, { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/augmentcode/auggie/main/docs/1.x-preview-guide.md", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T06:52:35.020563008Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-27T03:54:11.726634051Z", "fingerprint": "7478a9653d6e" }, { "url": "https://www.augmentcode.com/legal/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T06:56:54.339237611Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-28T04:47:24.371437441Z", "fingerprint": "545e099cf061" }, { "url": "https://www.augmentcode.com/legal/professional-terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T06:56:56.595389431Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-28T04:47:26.648993826Z", "fingerprint": "61910c9161f5" } ], "github": { "repo": "augmentcode/auggie", "checkedAt": "2026-10-26T07:11:52.639126318Z", "stars": 289, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-23T22:28:40Z", "openIssues": 93, "openPRs": 1, "issuesOpened90d": 14, "issuesClosed90d": 2, "prsMerged90d": 4, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 50, "success": 32, "failure": 18, "other": 0, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-08-22T00:06:21Z" }, "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 23, "medianDays": 32.1 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-01T22:08:36.550105564Z" } }, "answer": "AXLR scores 70.6 (BB) on agent readiness against Auggie CLI's 51 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "axlr", "name": "AXLR", "vendor": "Underpass AI", "vendorUrl": "https://axlr.underpassai.com", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Open-source Go execution engine for agentic work from Underpass AI. A console with work modes and approval cards, an mTLS HTTP, gRPC and MCP service, a JSON worker and a Go library, with KMP memory and MADE procedures over MCP.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/axlr", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/axlr.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/axlr.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/axlr.json", "dns": "axlr.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/underpass-ai/AXLR", "license": "Apache-2.0, with a NOTICE naming Tirso García Ibáñez as the copyright holder", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "go", "name": "github.com/underpass-ai/AXLR" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "ghcr.io/underpass-ai/axlr" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "ghcr.io/underpass-ai/charts/axlr" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The console and the one-command `axlr-tui --exec` need a model route, an OpenRouter key (`OPENROUTER_API_KEY` or `credentials.json`, mode 0600), a local OpenAI-compatible server, or an Anthropic Messages or OpenAI Responses key in a `local_models` entry; the JSON worker and the library tests need no model account. The service, `axlr-serve`, requires TLS 1.3 and a client certificate signed by its CA whose SHA-256 fingerprint is mapped in a private principals file to a principal and the roles `session_client`, `approver`, `tool_operator` and `admin`; an unmapped certificate is forbidden, a session belongs to the principal that created it, and authentication never approves a tool by itself. MCP at `/mcp` is stateless and authenticated per request by the same certificate; gRPC uses the TLS peer certificate.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and open source under Apache-2.0, with nothing to buy from Underpass AI. You pay your model provider (OpenRouter reports a cost per request, which the console's `/usage` and `max_session_usd` track) or run a local server at no charge; TypeSafe's Jev judge is optional and needs its own key. No hosted AXLR exists (checked 2026-11-01).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the repository, the OpenAPI file or the two sites (checked 2026-11-01). Nothing is sold.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 0, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-01" }, "docsUrl": "https://axlr.underpassai.com/docs/", "openapi": "https://github.com/underpass-ai/AXLR/blob/main/api/openapi/axlr-v1.yaml", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "self-hosted", "free", "no-card", "go", "cli", "mcp-client", "openapi", "grpc", "docker", "helm", "sandbox", "approvals", "pre-1.0", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-25", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 70.6, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 168, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1253, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 60, "reliability": 70, "schema": 80, "security": 62, "transparency": 55 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A pre-1.0 Go harness with an unusually complete service contract, mutual TLS with principal roles, required idempotency keys, a policy, budget and sandbox per execution, and a result object a program can read. The console's defaults after setup are autonomy on and no sandbox, the project has one maintainer and no outside users yet, and releases carry no notes.", "bestFor": "A program or bot that needs one governed execution at a time, with a policy, a budget, a sandbox profile and correlation ids it sets itself and a result object it reads back, on a machine it controls, with the model on OpenRouter, a local server or a native Anthropic or OpenAI key.", "strengths": [ "mTLS HTTP, gRPC and MCP service with four principal roles, `Idempotency-Key` required on turns, approvals and direct calls, and `expected_revision` on decisions", "A policy (observe, propose, act-with-approval, act-within-policy), a budget in seconds, requests, tool calls and dollars, and a bubblewrap or container sandbox with an enforced egress allow list, each per execution", "`axlr-tui --exec --json` runs one task headless and ends with a result object; exit 0 done, 3 waiting for a decision, 1 error", "OpenRouter, local OpenAI-compatible servers (llama.cpp, vLLM, Ollama, LM Studio), and the Anthropic Messages and OpenAI Responses APIs spoken directly", "21 releases in October 2026 from a workflow that tests on six native runners and refuses to republish different bytes, with a `.sha256` beside every archive" ], "weaknesses": [ "The setup assistant turns autonomy on and leaves the exec sandbox off, so after setup the model's commands run with the person's rights, bar the destructive list", "Pre-1.0 with one maintainer, 0 stars and 10 open issues, all the founder's own trackers; releases have empty notes and there is no changelog", "The service needs KMP and MADE as remote gRPC services, a client CA and a principals file before a first session, and has no work modes, plugins or forged-tool setting yet", "No SECURITY.md, security.txt, advisories or disclosure route; the legal entity is not yet incorporated and no terms or privacy policy exist", "No llms.txt, and the Go library is the only SDK; the catalog registry answers every non-AXLR client with 403" ], "agentNotes": [ "Before the first prompt, set `approvals.autonomous` to false or run with `--approve none`, and turn `exec_sandbox.mode` to `auto` or `required` on Linux; after setup both default the other way", "Drive a run with `axlr-tui --exec --json --policy \u003cfile\u003e --budget \u003cfile\u003e --sandbox \u003cfile\u003e` and read only the last `result` line; exit 3 means a call waits for `--decide approve|deny` with `--session \u003cid\u003e`", "On the service, send `Idempotency-Key` (16 to 128 safe ASCII characters) on every turn, approval and direct call, and pass the session's `expected_revision`; a reused key with a different body answers 409", "A local model must return native tool calls (llama.cpp with `--jinja`, vLLM with `--enable-auto-tool-choice`); set `context_tokens` on the entry and `OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH` for Ollama", "Leave `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` unset unless you want the setup assistant to switch Jev on, which sends requests and final answers to TypeSafe" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 70.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 60, "reliability": 70, "schema": 80, "security": 62, "transparency": 68 }, "provenanceScore": 42, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-01", "maintenance": "2026-11-01", "payments": "2026-11-01", "reliability": "2026-11-01", "schema": "2026-11-01", "security": "2026-11-01", "transparency": "2026-11-01" }, "last": "2026-11-01", "oldest": "2026-11-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "V=v0.15.0; OS=linux; ARCH=amd64; curl -fsSLO https://github.com/underpass-ai/AXLR/releases/download/$V/axlr-$V-$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz{,.sha256} \u0026\u0026 sha256sum -c axlr-$V-$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz.sha256 \u0026\u0026 tar xzf axlr-$V-$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz -C ~/.local/bin axlr axlr-tui axlr-serve # or build from source with Go 1.26", "headless": { "command": "axlr-tui --root \"$PWD\" --exec \"$TASK\" --json --approve none --policy policy.json --budget budget.json --sandbox sandbox.json", "decide": "axlr-tui --session \u003cid\u003e --decide approve --json", "env": { "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "\u003ckey\u003e" } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/axlr" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "underpassai.com", "domainRegistered": "2025-08-10", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/underpass-ai/AXLR/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-01", "notes": [ "No legal entity exists yet. underpassai.com's footer says Underpass AI is a startup project created by Tirso García Ibáñez and preparing incorporation as a Spanish limited liability company, that the technical assets are founder-owned and intended to be assigned to the company after incorporation, and that licence terms are in each repository's LICENSE and NOTICE. The NOTICE names Tirso García Ibáñez as copyright holder. Recorded as absent with that explanation.", "No terms of service or privacy policy on underpassai.com (sitemap lists the home page and one article) or axlr.underpassai.com. For local software the docs' 'Where data goes' and 'Diagnostics and privacy' sections stand in.", "RDAP for underpassai.com gives registration on 2025-08-10 with Route 53 nameservers. The GitHub organisation underpass-ai was created on 2025-08-09, location Spain, 16 public repositories. The AXLR repository was created on 2026-09-29; the first tag and release, v0.1.0, is dated 2026-10-04, which is firstReleased.", "https://underpassai.com/.well-known/security.txt and https://axlr.underpassai.com/.well-known/security.txt answer 404; the repository has no SECURITY.md. No status page (local software). The changelog is the GitHub releases list, whose entries carry no notes.", "robots.txt on underpassai.com and axlr.underpassai.com allow everything. registry.underpassai.com answers every path, robots.txt included, with 403 'forbidden: client is not AXLR', so nothing was read from it after that reply.", "The founder's LinkedIn URL is linked from underpassai.com and was not visited." ], "score": 42 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/axlr.json" }, "edges": [ { "by": 40, "category": "payments", "leads": "axlr", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "Harness reading of the published rubric, scored on the Augment subscription the CLI needs. The self-hosted rule doesn't apply. No payment protocol (0). Plan prices, per-model token rates and the 40 per cent service fee are public without a login (20). No free tier was found on the pricing page. The terms mention trials by order (0). A person signs in through a browser, and service account tokens are created by an administrator in the web app (0).", "b": "No payment protocol (0). Free and Apache-2.0 with nothing to buy, so 20, 20 and 20 on the last three lines by the self-hosted rule, since the docs say what you pay your model provider, the free route needs no card, and it runs local models with no signup at all, the JSON worker without any model. 0+20+20+20 = 60." }, "scores": { "a": 20, "b": 60 } }, { "by": 27, "category": "reliability", "leads": "axlr", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Local-package reading, as for the other closed-source harnesses. The official npm package with macOS, Linux and WSL stated, but the README asks for Node 22 or later while the docs and the package engines say Node 20, so 2 are held back (18). No public CI or test suite, since the source isn't published. The repository has six workflow files, but it holds docs, examples and issues, not the CLI, and their results couldn't be read (0). The repository's tracker had 93 open and 18 closed issues on 18 October 2026, per our GitHub record, so most reports stay open. Which are crashes or regressions, and how fast maintainers reply, couldn't be read. Every run needs Augment's servers, and the status page records major outages on 1 September 2026 (Cosmos and the CLI unavailable, about 40 minutes) and 9 October 2026 (about five and a half hours across services) (5). A changelog by version with fixes and improvements in sections, dated release notes on the website, and a 1.x guide with a breaking-changes section, though the repository changelog carries no dates (10). The `latest` 0.x channel is described as the current stable line for production, while 1.x is in preview. Judgement call (10). 18+0+5+10+10 = 43.", "b": "Read as a local package, as claude-code, goose, opencode and openhands were. Release archives for Linux, macOS and Windows on amd64 and arm64 with a `.sha256` beside each, a GHCR image, an OCI Helm chart and source builds with Go 1.26, all stated in the docs; no Homebrew, npm or apt route (20). CI on main runs vet, race tests and a coverage gate above 80 per cent for both modules, with the sandbox tests required under bubblewrap, and the last ten runs on main to 1 November 2026 all passed; the release workflow tests on six native runners (25). 10 open issues, all opened by the founder on 19 and 21 October 2026 as trackers for service work (work modes, plugins, the sandbox setting, cost limits), none from an outside user and none a crash report, 0 open pull requests and about 100 merged; with 0 stars there is nobody else to report, so the handling of outside reports is untested (20). Tags are semver 0.x and the docs date each behaviour change inline (\"until 14 October 2026…\"), but the 21 releases have empty notes, there is no CHANGELOG.md, and the product contract records one retirement (the seven 1.0 skill definitions on 5 October 2026) without a notice period (5). Pre-1.0, which the README calls an evolving project (0). 20+25+20+5+0 = 70." }, "scores": { "a": 43, "b": 70 } }, { "by": 21, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "axlr", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Graded on the stable line, as the brief asks. 0.36.0 on 21 August 2026, 58 days before this check (20). The 1.x preview and the 0.37.0 prerelease line had builds on 16 October, with 283 prereleases since 20 July. Judgement call to score the stable line. 0.34.0, 0.35.0 and 0.36.0 between 30 July and 21 August 2026 (20). The public tracker had 93 open and 18 closed issues, and 66 closed and no open pull requests, on 18 October 2026, per our GitHub record. Reply times couldn't be read. A support portal, a subreddit and a dated website changelog (6). TypeScript SDK 0.2.0 of 8 July 2026, and its docs still name older models. The Python SDK's PyPI page answered with a bot check (8). npm builds come from GitHub Actions through trusted publishing with registry signatures, and the changelog records dependency scan fixes. No public CI for the CLI. The repository's six workflow files don't build it, and their results couldn't be read. Its newest GitHub release is v0.28.0 from May 2026, while tags follow npm builds up to 16 October (4). 20+20+6+8+4 = 58.", "b": "v0.15.0 on 2026-10-25, with commits on main to 2026-11-01 (30). 21 releases between 4 and 25 October 2026 (20). One maintainer (368 of 399 commits, the rest by two agent accounts), 10 open issues that are his own trackers with no comments, about 100 merged pull requests and no outside report to measure a reply against (15). Not in the MCP registry; the Go module and a proto to generate clients from are the only client code, beside the GHCR image and Helm chart (5). Go 1.26 toolchain pinned, release actions pinned by commit SHA, a go-licenses check that the third-party bundle matches the dependency graph, and CI passing on main (9). 30+20+15+5+9 = 79." }, "scores": { "a": 58, "b": 79 } }, { "by": 18, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "axlr", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Framework reading, adapted to a harness driven by a pipeline. `--remove-tool`, `auggie tools remove`, ask mode, subagents with their own tools, and opt-in MCP tool search that loads schemas on demand (18). `--max-turns`, `--quiet`, `--compact`, `--output-format json`, `--queue` and `--show-credits`. Budgets per user exist only on Enterprise (15). No documented exit codes or error format for print mode. Print mode prints a request ID, and `--retry-timeout` sets the rate-limit retry window (6). `--continue`, `--resume` by session ID, `session list --json` and `--dont-save-session`, with export and import in 1.x (15). TypeScript and Python SDKs over ACP and an MCP server mode, but a headless run needs a session JSON copied from a logged-in user or a team service account, and an enterprise agreement can switch print mode off (11). 18+15+6+15+11 = 65.", "b": "Harness reading of the framework line, scored on what a program driving it has to supply. Six local tools plus the host's bookkeeping tools; work modes and an execution policy hide the tools a run may not use, `axlr_catalog` searches the catalog instead of loading it, forged tools keep the request prefix for the prompt cache, and a context cap of 75,000 prompt tokens opens a successor session (20). `local_read`, `local_search` and `local_list` page with `offset`, `next_offset` and `max_bytes`; `StreamEvents` takes `after`, `max_events` (1 to 256) and `wait_ms`; a budget per execution in seconds, requests, tool calls and dollars; 32 tool calls a turn and `max_session_usd` (20). The `--exec` run ends in one `result` line with a status, the pending call, every call's outcome and the usage, and exits 0, 3 or 1; service errors carry codes an agent can act on; a budget stop says which limit (`budget: requests 20 reached`) and leaves the session resumable (16). `Idempotency-Key` on every turn, approval and direct call with cross-transport replay, `expected_revision` on decisions, `expected_sha256` on worker writes, and an interrupted effectful call left `uncertain` for an operator rather than retried (19). One command runs a task, but the first launch needs an OpenRouter key or a local server, the service needs a CA, a principals file and remote KMP and MADE before a first session, and the only SDK is the Go library (8). 20+20+16+19+8 = 83." }, "scores": { "a": 65, "b": 83 } }, { "by": 15, "category": "security", "leads": "axlr", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Framework reading (telemetry defaults, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing), five lines as for the other harnesses. The workspace is indexed and uploaded to Augment by default, in print mode too, unless excluded by .gitignore or .augmentignore. A telemetry endpoint is listed with no description or opt-out found. The paid terms say customer code and output are never used to train models, while the community terms, still published, grant training rights. Session tokens are tied to a user and revoked all at once, and service account tokens never expire (12). Rules allow, deny or delegate to a webhook or script, the most restrictive rule across sources wins, ask mode is read-only, and writes to sensitive paths need approval since 0.34.0. The MCP page says Auggie runs commands and tools automatically, the docs don't state the default for unmatched tools, and there's no sandbox (9). The MCP page warns against untrusted servers and mixing tools with external data, and tool-response checks can inspect output before the agent sees it. No network control was found (6). Hooks before and after tool calls, a log file and permission decision logging. Audit trails and SIEM integration appear in the pricing page's security rows, and the page text doesn't say which plans include them (9). A disclosure address and GitHub private reporting in SECURITY.md, SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 42001 named. No security.txt and no bug bounty found. OSV lists no published advisory for the package and NVD no CVE for Auggie, per our GitHub record, so there's no public advisory record to credit or deduct (11). 12+9+6+9+11 = 47.", "b": "Harness reading of the framework checklist, as for the other four harnesses. 30 for what leaves the machine by default, 20 for approvals and sandboxing, 15 for prompt-injection posture, 15 for audit and 20 for the security programme. No product telemetry in the console source (the outbound hosts are openrouter.ai, api.anthropic.com, api.openai.com, a configured local server, api.github.com and github.com for engine downloads, and registry.underpassai.com for the signed catalog index) or in the docs; payload capture is off by default since 9 October 2026, traces omit prompts and credentials, model keys are never given to commands or plugins, and Jev sends requests and answers to TypeSafe only when on, which the setup assistant does when `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` is set, with a notice on stderr (27). Approval cards, a destructive list that always asks, four work modes, a policy level per execution, a bubblewrap or container sandbox with an enforced egress allow list, and a service that approves nothing but reads. Against that, the setup assistant writes `autonomous: true`, `exec_sandbox` is off by default, forged tools run with the person's rights, and the README says the console and worker are not sandboxes (13). Forged tools are refused when a file changes since the forge, a policy forbids calls outside the model, and the docs say MCP tools keep their own side effects, but no prompt-injection guidance was found and MCP results reach the model unmarked (6). The service keeps an event journal, audit records, a receipt with the SHA-256 of every call's arguments and outcome, and correlation ids on every event; the console keeps session records, a redacted app log and `/session` (14). No SECURITY.md, no security.txt on either host, no advisories, no bug bounty; release checksums and a minisign-signed catalog are integrity, not a programme (2). 27+13+6+14+2 = 62." }, "scores": { "a": 47, "b": 62 } }, { "by": 13, "category": "schema", "leads": "axlr", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Framework reading. `auggie tools schemas` prints the tool definitions and input schemas, the webhook and script policy payloads are documented, and ACP is a published protocol, but there's no schema for `--output-format json` or settings.json (13). docs.augmentcode.com/llms.txt indexes every page with a Markdown twin (10). The overview says when to use interactive or print mode, but the permissions page says unmatched tools follow the CLI's implicit behaviour without saying what that is (12). Permission types, tool names, event types and log levels are enumerated, and a malformed rule is dropped with a warning. The 1.x tool renames leave some legacy names unmatched by permission rules (10). Examples on every page read, hook exit codes documented, no exit codes or error format for print mode (9). Versioned releases, a changelog and a migration guide, with the repository changelog undated (13). 13+10+12+10+9+13 = 67.", "b": "An OpenAPI 3.1 file for the service (15 paths, 23 schemas, `mutualTLS` security scheme, `additionalProperties: false` on request bodies), a checked proto for the gRPC service, and the 19 MCP tools built from the same shared schemas (25). No llms.txt on either site (404), and the docs site renders HTML; the Markdown sources are in the repository (5). The product contract tables what each of the four interfaces can and cannot do, the work-mode table states each mode's purpose and tool policy, the transport parity ledger names every verb's arguments and behaviour, and `axlr_tools` tells the model to look for a tool before forging one (15). Typed inputs throughout, `Idempotency-Key` 16 to 128 safe ASCII characters, `expected_revision` a positive integer, policy levels, sandbox profiles and egress values enumerated, budgets as four integers, and the service rejects unknown fields, invalid types and bodies over 4 MiB (14). Examples in every guide, an error shape of `code`, `message` and `request_id`, named codes (`409 idempotency_conflict`, `400 invalid_cursor`, `422 invalid_policy`, `invalid_budget`, `sandbox_unavailable`, `not_ready`, `invalid_id`), a gRPC status mapping, and the worker's five statuses and three exit codes; no single error reference page (14). `/v1` routes and an OpenAPI version of 0.1.0 against a 0.15.0 release, and no changelog beyond the dated notes inside the docs (7). 25+5+15+14+14+7 = 80." }, "scores": { "a": 67, "b": 80 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Harness (formerly Augment Code)", "b": "Underpass AI", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary. The licence from Augment Computing, Inc. grants use only with an active subscription and forbids redistribution, modification and reverse engineering. The GitHub repository holds the README, changelog, examples and issue tracker, not the source", "b": "Apache-2.0, with a NOTICE naming Tirso García Ibáñez as the copyright holder", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-08-21", "b": "2026-10-25", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-08-28", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2025-08-28", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not read yet", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "16k npm/wk", "b": "0 stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2.8/5 (4)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "AXLR scores 70.6 (BB) on agent readiness against Auggie CLI's 51 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Auggie CLI or AXLR?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Auggie CLI. AXLR is open source (Apache-2.0, with a NOTICE naming Tirso García Ibáñez as the copyright holder).", "question": "Are Auggie CLI and AXLR open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "Teams already paying for Augment who want its Context Engine in a terminal, in CI or through ACP and MCP, with permission rules a security team can delegate to a webhook.", "slug": "auggie", "watchFor": "No operating-system sandbox, and the MCP docs say Auggie runs commands and tools automatically" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 70 against 43", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 67", "Agent ergonomics, 83 against 65", "Security \u0026 auth, 62 against 47", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 58" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better", "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "A program or bot that needs one governed execution at a time, with a policy, a budget, a sandbox profile and 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The console's defaults after setup are autonomy on and no sandbox, the project has one maintainer and no outside users yet, and releases carry no notes." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-axlr", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-axlr.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-axlr.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-axlr.min.md" }, "markdown": "AXLR scores 70.6 (BB) on agent readiness against Auggie CLI's 51 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- Auggie CLI: grade D, 51/100, rank #932 of 1253. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/auggie.json\n- AXLR: grade BB, 70.6/100, rank #168 of 1253. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/axlr.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/axlr.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 1000 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Auggie CLI (D)\n\nGood for: Teams already paying for Augment who want its Context Engine in a terminal, in CI or through ACP and MCP, with permission rules a security team can delegate to a webhook.\n\nWatch for: No operating-system sandbox, and the MCP docs say Auggie runs commands and tools automatically\n\n### AXLR (BB)\n\nGood for: A program or bot that needs one governed execution at a time, with a policy, a budget, a sandbox profile and correlation ids it sets itself and a result object it reads back, on a machine it controls, with the model on OpenRouter, a local server or a native Anthropic or OpenAI key.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 43\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 80 against 67\n- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 65\n- Security \u0026 auth, 62 against 47\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 79 against 58\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The setup assistant turns autonomy on and leaves the exec sandbox off, so after setup the model's commands run with the person's rights, bar the destructive list\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: AXLR +40\n\n- Auggie CLI (20): Harness reading of the published rubric, scored on the Augment subscription the CLI needs. The self-hosted rule doesn't apply. No payment protocol (0). Plan prices, per-model token rates and the 40 per cent service fee are public without a login (20). No free tier was found on the pricing page. The terms mention trials by order (0). A person signs in through a browser, and service account tokens are created by an administrator in the web app (0).\n- AXLR (60): No payment protocol (0). Free and Apache-2.0 with nothing to buy, so 20, 20 and 20 on the last three lines by the self-hosted rule, since the docs say what you pay your model provider, the free route needs no card, and it runs local models with no signup at all, the JSON worker without any model. 0+20+20+20 = 60.\n\n### Reliability: AXLR +27\n\n- Auggie CLI (43): Local-package reading, as for the other closed-source harnesses. The official npm package with macOS, Linux and WSL stated, but the README asks for Node 22 or later while the docs and the package engines say Node 20, so 2 are held back (18). No public CI or test suite, since the source isn't published. The repository has six workflow files, but it holds docs, examples and issues, not the CLI, and their results couldn't be read (0). The repository's tracker had 93 open and 18 closed issues on 18 October 2026, per our GitHub record, so most reports stay open. Which are crashes or regressions, and how fast maintainers reply, couldn't be read. Every run needs Augment's servers, and the status page records major outages on 1 September 2026 (Cosmos and the CLI unavailable, about 40 minutes) and 9 October 2026 (about five and a half hours across services) (5). A changelog by version with fixes and improvements in sections, dated release notes on the website, and a 1.x guide with a breaking-changes section, though the repository changelog carries no dates (10). The `latest` 0.x channel is described as the current stable line for production, while 1.x is in preview. Judgement call (10). 18+0+5+10+10 = 43.\n- AXLR (70): Read as a local package, as claude-code, goose, opencode and openhands were. Release archives for Linux, macOS and Windows on amd64 and arm64 with a `.sha256` beside each, a GHCR image, an OCI Helm chart and source builds with Go 1.26, all stated in the docs; no Homebrew, npm or apt route (20). CI on main runs vet, race tests and a coverage gate above 80 per cent for both modules, with the sandbox tests required under bubblewrap, and the last ten runs on main to 1 November 2026 all passed; the release workflow tests on six native runners (25). 10 open issues, all opened by the founder on 19 and 21 October 2026 as trackers for service work (work modes, plugins, the sandbox setting, cost limits), none from an outside user and none a crash report, 0 open pull requests and about 100 merged; with 0 stars there is nobody else to report, so the handling of outside reports is untested (20). Tags are semver 0.x and the docs date each behaviour change inline (\"until 14 October 2026…\"), but the 21 releases have empty notes, there is no CHANGELOG.md, and the product contract records one retirement (the seven 1.0 skill definitions on 5 October 2026) without a notice period (5). Pre-1.0, which the README calls an evolving project (0). 20+25+20+5+0 = 70.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: AXLR +21\n\n- Auggie CLI (58): Graded on the stable line, as the brief asks. 0.36.0 on 21 August 2026, 58 days before this check (20). The 1.x preview and the 0.37.0 prerelease line had builds on 16 October, with 283 prereleases since 20 July. Judgement call to score the stable line. 0.34.0, 0.35.0 and 0.36.0 between 30 July and 21 August 2026 (20). The public tracker had 93 open and 18 closed issues, and 66 closed and no open pull requests, on 18 October 2026, per our GitHub record. Reply times couldn't be read. A support portal, a subreddit and a dated website changelog (6). TypeScript SDK 0.2.0 of 8 July 2026, and its docs still name older models. The Python SDK's PyPI page answered with a bot check (8). npm builds come from GitHub Actions through trusted publishing with registry signatures, and the changelog records dependency scan fixes. No public CI for the CLI. The repository's six workflow files don't build it, and their results couldn't be read. Its newest GitHub release is v0.28.0 from May 2026, while tags follow npm builds up to 16 October (4). 20+20+6+8+4 = 58.\n- AXLR (79): v0.15.0 on 2026-10-25, with commits on main to 2026-11-01 (30). 21 releases between 4 and 25 October 2026 (20). One maintainer (368 of 399 commits, the rest by two agent accounts), 10 open issues that are his own trackers with no comments, about 100 merged pull requests and no outside report to measure a reply against (15). Not in the MCP registry; the Go module and a proto to generate clients from are the only client code, beside the GHCR image and Helm chart (5). Go 1.26 toolchain pinned, release actions pinned by commit SHA, a go-licenses check that the third-party bundle matches the dependency graph, and CI passing on main (9). 30+20+15+5+9 = 79.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: AXLR +18\n\n- Auggie CLI (65): Framework reading, adapted to a harness driven by a pipeline. `--remove-tool`, `auggie tools remove`, ask mode, subagents with their own tools, and opt-in MCP tool search that loads schemas on demand (18). `--max-turns`, `--quiet`, `--compact`, `--output-format json`, `--queue` and `--show-credits`. Budgets per user exist only on Enterprise (15). No documented exit codes or error format for print mode. Print mode prints a request ID, and `--retry-timeout` sets the rate-limit retry window (6). `--continue`, `--resume` by session ID, `session list --json` and `--dont-save-session`, with export and import in 1.x (15). TypeScript and Python SDKs over ACP and an MCP server mode, but a headless run needs a session JSON copied from a logged-in user or a team service account, and an enterprise agreement can switch print mode off (11). 18+15+6+15+11 = 65.\n- AXLR (83): Harness reading of the framework line, scored on what a program driving it has to supply. Six local tools plus the host's bookkeeping tools; work modes and an execution policy hide the tools a run may not use, `axlr_catalog` searches the catalog instead of loading it, forged tools keep the request prefix for the prompt cache, and a context cap of 75,000 prompt tokens opens a successor session (20). `local_read`, `local_search` and `local_list` page with `offset`, `next_offset` and `max_bytes`; `StreamEvents` takes `after`, `max_events` (1 to 256) and `wait_ms`; a budget per execution in seconds, requests, tool calls and dollars; 32 tool calls a turn and `max_session_usd` (20). The `--exec` run ends in one `result` line with a status, the pending call, every call's outcome and the usage, and exits 0, 3 or 1; service errors carry codes an agent can act on; a budget stop says which limit (`budget: requests 20 reached`) and leaves the session resumable (16). `Idempotency-Key` on every turn, approval and direct call with cross-transport replay, `expected_revision` on decisions, `expected_sha256` on worker writes, and an interrupted effectful call left `uncertain` for an operator rather than retried (19). One command runs a task, but the first launch needs an OpenRouter key or a local server, the service needs a CA, a principals file and remote KMP and MADE before a first session, and the only SDK is the Go library (8). 20+20+16+19+8 = 83.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: AXLR +15\n\n- Auggie CLI (47): Framework reading (telemetry defaults, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing), five lines as for the other harnesses. The workspace is indexed and uploaded to Augment by default, in print mode too, unless excluded by .gitignore or .augmentignore. A telemetry endpoint is listed with no description or opt-out found. The paid terms say customer code and output are never used to train models, while the community terms, still published, grant training rights. Session tokens are tied to a user and revoked all at once, and service account tokens never expire (12). Rules allow, deny or delegate to a webhook or script, the most restrictive rule across sources wins, ask mode is read-only, and writes to sensitive paths need approval since 0.34.0. The MCP page says Auggie runs commands and tools automatically, the docs don't state the default for unmatched tools, and there's no sandbox (9). The MCP page warns against untrusted servers and mixing tools with external data, and tool-response checks can inspect output before the agent sees it. No network control was found (6). Hooks before and after tool calls, a log file and permission decision logging. Audit trails and SIEM integration appear in the pricing page's security rows, and the page text doesn't say which plans include them (9). A disclosure address and GitHub private reporting in SECURITY.md, SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 42001 named. No security.txt and no bug bounty found. OSV lists no published advisory for the package and NVD no CVE for Auggie, per our GitHub record, so there's no public advisory record to credit or deduct (11). 12+9+6+9+11 = 47.\n- AXLR (62): Harness reading of the framework checklist, as for the other four harnesses. 30 for what leaves the machine by default, 20 for approvals and sandboxing, 15 for prompt-injection posture, 15 for audit and 20 for the security programme. No product telemetry in the console source (the outbound hosts are openrouter.ai, api.anthropic.com, api.openai.com, a configured local server, api.github.com and github.com for engine downloads, and registry.underpassai.com for the signed catalog index) or in the docs; payload capture is off by default since 9 October 2026, traces omit prompts and credentials, model keys are never given to commands or plugins, and Jev sends requests and answers to TypeSafe only when on, which the setup assistant does when `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` is set, with a notice on stderr (27). Approval cards, a destructive list that always asks, four work modes, a policy level per execution, a bubblewrap or container sandbox with an enforced egress allow list, and a service that approves nothing but reads. Against that, the setup assistant writes `autonomous: true`, `exec_sandbox` is off by default, forged tools run with the person's rights, and the README says the console and worker are not sandboxes (13). Forged tools are refused when a file changes since the forge, a policy forbids calls outside the model, and the docs say MCP tools keep their own side effects, but no prompt-injection guidance was found and MCP results reach the model unmarked (6). The service keeps an event journal, audit records, a receipt with the SHA-256 of every call's arguments and outcome, and correlation ids on every event; the console keeps session records, a redacted app log and `/session` (14). No SECURITY.md, no security.txt on either host, no advisories, no bug bounty; release checksums and a minisign-signed catalog are integrity, not a programme (2). 27+13+6+14+2 = 62.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: AXLR +13\n\n- Auggie CLI (67): Framework reading. `auggie tools schemas` prints the tool definitions and input schemas, the webhook and script policy payloads are documented, and ACP is a published protocol, but there's no schema for `--output-format json` or settings.json (13). docs.augmentcode.com/llms.txt indexes every page with a Markdown twin (10). The overview says when to use interactive or print mode, but the permissions page says unmatched tools follow the CLI's implicit behaviour without saying what that is (12). Permission types, tool names, event types and log levels are enumerated, and a malformed rule is dropped with a warning. The 1.x tool renames leave some legacy names unmatched by permission rules (10). Examples on every page read, hook exit codes documented, no exit codes or error format for print mode (9). Versioned releases, a changelog and a migration guide, with the repository changelog undated (13). 13+10+12+10+9+13 = 67.\n- AXLR (80): An OpenAPI 3.1 file for the service (15 paths, 23 schemas, `mutualTLS` security scheme, `additionalProperties: false` on request bodies), a checked proto for the gRPC service, and the 19 MCP tools built from the same shared schemas (25). No llms.txt on either site (404), and the docs site renders HTML; the Markdown sources are in the repository (5). The product contract tables what each of the four interfaces can and cannot do, the work-mode table states each mode's purpose and tool policy, the transport parity ledger names every verb's arguments and behaviour, and `axlr_tools` tells the model to look for a tool before forging one (15). Typed inputs throughout, `Idempotency-Key` 16 to 128 safe ASCII characters, `expected_revision` a positive integer, policy levels, sandbox profiles and egress values enumerated, budgets as four integers, and the service rejects unknown fields, invalid types and bodies over 4 MiB (14). Examples in every guide, an error shape of `code`, `message` and `request_id`, named codes (`409 idempotency_conflict`, `400 invalid_cursor`, `422 invalid_policy`, `invalid_budget`, `sandbox_unavailable`, `not_ready`, `invalid_id`), a gRPC status mapping, and the worker's five statuses and three exit codes; no single error reference page (14). `/v1` routes and an OpenAPI version of 0.1.0 against a 0.15.0 release, and no changelog beyond the dated notes inside the docs (7). 25+5+15+14+14+7 = 80.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Auggie CLI | AXLR | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 43 | 70 | AXLR +27 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 80 | AXLR +13 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 83 | AXLR +18 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 47 | 62 | AXLR +15 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 60 | AXLR +40 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 79 | AXLR +21 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 55 | Auggie CLI +4 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **51 · D** | **70.6 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Auggie CLI | AXLR |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Harness (formerly Augment Code) | Underpass AI |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary. The licence from Augment Computing, Inc. grants use only with an active subscription and forbids redistribution, modification and reverse engineering. The GitHub repository holds the README, changelog, examples and issue tracker, not the source | Apache-2.0, with a NOTICE naming Tirso García Ibáñez as the copyright holder |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-10-25 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-08-28 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-08-28 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not read yet |\n| Popularity | 16k npm/wk | 0 stars |\n| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Auggie CLI\n\n- +0.2 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n### AXLR\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Auggie CLI.** Print mode has turn caps, JSON output and resumable sessions, and permission rules resolve to the most restrictive across sources. Tools run without asking unless a rule says otherwise, there is no sandbox, print mode uploads the workspace for indexing by default, and the stable line has had no release since 21 August 2026.\n\n**AXLR.** A pre-1.0 Go harness with an unusually complete service contract, mutual TLS with principal roles, required idempotency keys, a policy, budget and sandbox per execution, and a result object a program can read. The console's defaults after setup are autonomy on and no sandbox, the project has one maintainer and no outside users yet, and releases carry no notes.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Auggie CLI\n\n1. Pass `--max-turns` with `--print` in pipelines to bound how many turns, and so how much usage, a run can take\n2. Commit deny rules to .augment/settings.json before an unattended run. Tools no rule matches follow the CLI's implicit behaviour, which the docs don't define\n3. Add secrets and data directories to .augmentignore before the first print-mode run, because indexing uploads the workspace by default\n4. Use a service account token in CI on team and Enterprise plans. A personal session from `auggie token print` runs with that user's integrations\n5. Pin the version in CI. `latest` is 0.x, while `preview` and `daemon` carry 1.x prereleases whose permission rules ignore some legacy tool names\n\n### AXLR\n\n1. Before the first prompt, set `approvals.autonomous` to false or run with `--approve none`, and turn `exec_sandbox.mode` to `auto` or `required` on Linux; after setup both default the other way\n2. Drive a run with `axlr-tui --exec --json --policy \u003cfile\u003e --budget \u003cfile\u003e --sandbox \u003cfile\u003e` and read only the last `result` line; exit 3 means a call waits for `--decide approve|deny` with `--session \u003cid\u003e`\n3. On the service, send `Idempotency-Key` (16 to 128 safe ASCII characters) on every turn, approval and direct call, and pass the session's `expected_revision`; a reused key with a different body answers 409\n4. A local model must return native tool calls (llama.cpp with `--jinja`, vLLM with `--enable-auto-tool-choice`); set `context_tokens` on the entry and `OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH` for Ollama\n5. Leave `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` unset unless you want the setup assistant to switch Jev on, which sends requests and final answers to TypeSafe\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Auggie CLI or AXLR?\n\nAXLR scores 70.6 (BB) on agent readiness against Auggie CLI's 51 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Are Auggie CLI and AXLR open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Auggie CLI. AXLR is open source (Apache-2.0, with a NOTICE naming Tirso García Ibáñez as the copyright holder).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-axlr.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-axlr.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"auggie\", \"b\": \"axlr\"}`. 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