# Auggie CLI vs Jules

> Auggie CLI scores 50.8 (D) to Jules's 44.5 (E) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-18

Auggie CLI scores 50.8 (D) on agent readiness against Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Jules leads on schema & documentation, security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.

- Auggie CLI: grade D, 50.8/100, rank #872 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/auggie.json
- Jules: grade E, 44.5/100, rank #1000 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jules.json
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## Which one, for what

### Auggie CLI (D)

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 13
- Maintenance & community, 58 against 18
- Transparency & trust, 57 against 44

Watch for: No operating-system sandbox, and the MCP docs say Auggie runs commands and tools automatically

### Jules (E)

Good for: A person or pipeline that wants to hand scoped GitHub tasks to a cloud agent and collect a pull request or a patch, or run a repoless job in a disposable VM.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 76 against 67
- Security & auth, 57 against 47
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 20

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine

Watch for: The REST API has been v1alpha since 3 October 2025 and the docs say specifications and API keys may change


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Auggie CLI | Jules | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 43 | 13 | Auggie CLI +30 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 76 | Jules +9 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 64 | Auggie CLI +1 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 47 | 57 | Jules +10 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 30 | Jules +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 58 | 18 | Auggie CLI +40 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 57 | 44 | Auggie CLI +13 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **50.8 · D** | **44.5 · E** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Auggie CLI | Jules |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Harness (formerly Augment Code) | Google LLC |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| 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 | Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed |
| Tools exposed | none | 8 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-03-09 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2026-07-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 16k npm/wk | 1.3k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 2.8/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**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.

**Jules.** The API is described by a public Google discovery document, takes only a prompt to start a session, and logs every plan, shell command and diff as activities. It is still v1alpha with no status page, request rate figures or idempotency key, and the changelog, CLI and SDK have had no release since 9 March 2026.

## Before you call either

### Auggie CLI

1. Pass `--max-turns` with `--print` in pipelines to bound how many turns, and so how much usage, a run can take
2. 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
3. Add secrets and data directories to .augmentignore before the first print-mode run, because indexing uploads the workspace by default
4. 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
5. 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

### Jules

1. Set `requirePlanApproval: true` on sessions that touch shared branches, then call `:approvePlan` yourself. API sessions otherwise run their plan without review
2. Session creation has no request ID. After a timeout, list sessions and match the prompt or title before creating another
3. Poll activities with a `create_time` filter and cache them. Activities never change once written
4. Read the request fields from the discovery document at https://jules.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1alpha. The field tables on jules.google render empty
5. Budget against the daily task quota of 15, 100 or 300 by plan. New sessions are refused until the rolling 24 hours reset

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Auggie CLI or Jules?

Auggie CLI scores 50.8 (D) on agent readiness against Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Jules leads on schema & documentation, security & auth and payments & pricing.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-jules.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-jules.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "auggie", "b": "jules"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare auggie jules`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/auggie.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jules.json

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