# Auggie CLI vs Harness (slim)

> Harness scores 60.3 (C) to Auggie CLI's 50.8 (D) for multi-agent orchestration. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Harness scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against Auggie CLI's 50.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Auggie CLI leads on reliability. Both do multi-agent orchestration.

- Auggie CLI: D 50.8, rank #872 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie.min.md
- Harness: C 60.3, rank #573 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous.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. Ahead on Reliability, 43 against 35.
- Harness, good for A developer who runs Claude Code and Codex on several machines and wants their agents to hand work to each other where the person can watch. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 85 against 67; Agent ergonomics, 82 against 65; Security & auth, 57 against 47; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20; Transparency & trust, 68 against 57. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Auggie CLI | Harness |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 35 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 67 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 82 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Auggie CLI | Harness |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Harness (formerly Augment Code) | Autonomous, Inc. |
| Transports |  | stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| 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 | MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 7 |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-10-17 |
| Popularity | 16k npm/wk | 1.3k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |