# Auggie CLI vs Harness² (slim)

> Auggie CLI scores 50.8 (D) to Harness²'s 41.6 (E) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Auggie CLI scores 50.8 (D) on agent readiness against Harness²'s 41.6 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Harness² leads on payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.

- Auggie CLI: D 50.8, rank #872 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie.min.md
- Harness²: E 41.6, rank #1040 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness2.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 20; Schema & documentation, 67 against 51; Agent ergonomics, 65 against 59; Maintenance & community, 58 against 36; Transparency & trust, 57 against 44.
- Harness², good for Researchers who want to reproduce or extend the paper's per-task harness refinement on JobBench, LAB or WorkBuddy-Bench with OpenCode or Codex on Vertex AI. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 40 against 20. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.

| Category | Auggie CLI | Harness² |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 20 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 67 | 51 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 59 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 44 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 36 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 44 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Auggie CLI | Harness² |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Harness (formerly Augment Code) | Google (Google Research) |
| 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. Bundled benchmark runners keep their upstream licences (Apache-2.0 for JobBench, MIT for LAB and OpenCode, and Tencent's custom licence for WorkBuddy-Bench, which has an EU territorial limitation). |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | no document linked |
| Popularity | 16k npm/wk | 4.2k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (4) |