# Auggie CLI vs goose (slim)

> goose scores 73.9 (BB) to Auggie CLI's 50.8 (D) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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goose scores 73.9 (BB) on agent readiness against Auggie CLI's 50.8 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do agent harnesses.

- Auggie CLI: D 50.8, rank #872 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie.min.md
- goose: BB 73.9, rank #82 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/goose.min.md
- Auggie CLI, good 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.
- goose, good for People and pipelines that want one agent across many model providers or local models, with recipes for repeatable jobs and a desktop app for non-engineers. Ahead on Reliability, 77 against 43; Schema & documentation, 81 against 67; Agent ergonomics, 82 against 65; Security & auth, 77 against 47; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Maintenance & community, 86 against 58; Transparency & trust, 63 against 57. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Auggie CLI | goose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 77 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 67 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 82 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 77 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 86 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Auggie CLI | goose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Harness (formerly Augment Code) | Agentic AI Foundation (originally Block) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| 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 |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-10-16 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | no document linked |
| Popularity | 16k npm/wk | 55k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (2) |