# Auggie CLI vs HarnessRouter (slim)

> HarnessRouter scores 53.2 (D) to Auggie CLI's 50.8 (D) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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HarnessRouter scores 53.2 (D) 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 agent harnesses.

- Auggie CLI: D 50.8, rank #872 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie.min.md
- HarnessRouter: D 53.2, rank #803 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harnessrouter.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. Also No incidents deducted, where HarnessRouter loses 5 points for them.
- HarnessRouter, good for A product team that wants to run Codex, Claude Code, Hermes or 23 other harnesses server-side behind one task, session and file contract, and switch between them by changing an ID. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 83 against 67; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 65; Security & auth, 58 against 47; Payments & pricing, 25 against 20; Maintenance & community, 72 against 58; Transparency & trust, 72 against 57. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Open source.

| Category | Auggie CLI | HarnessRouter |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 35 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 67 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 73 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 25 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 72 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Auggie CLI | HarnessRouter |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Harness (formerly Augment Code) | HarnessRouter (Lumentree Corporation) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.harnessrouter.ai` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Paid | Pay per use |
| 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 for the Community Edition server and the UHP specification, schema and conformance suite. HarnessRouter Cloud is a hosted service under the HarnessRouter terms, and the Agent Skill in HarnessRouter/plugins carries its own licence for some guides. |
| Tools exposed | none | 0 |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-10-16 |
| Popularity | 16k npm/wk | 3.1k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 2.5/5 (4) |