# Auggie CLI vs mini-swe-agent (slim)

> mini-swe-agent scores 56.7 (C) to Auggie CLI's 50.8 (D) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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mini-swe-agent scores 56.7 (C) on agent readiness against Auggie CLI's 50.8 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Auggie CLI leads on schema & documentation, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do agent harnesses.

- Auggie CLI: D 50.8, rank #872 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie.min.md
- mini-swe-agent: C 56.7, rank #698 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mini-swe-agent.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 Schema & documentation, 67 against 58; Maintenance & community, 58 against 49; Transparency & trust, 57 against 51. Also No incidents deducted, where mini-swe-agent loses 4 points for them.
- mini-swe-agent, good for Benchmark runs, research baselines and RL or fine-tuning pipelines that want a minimal, readable agent with a linear trajectory, and for people who want to read every line of their harness. Ahead on Reliability, 70 against 43; Security & auth, 56 against 47; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Auggie CLI | mini-swe-agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 67 | 58 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 49 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Auggie CLI | mini-swe-agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Harness (formerly Augment Code) | SWE-bench team (Princeton and Stanford) |
| 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 | MIT |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-07-23 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | no document linked |
| Popularity | 16k npm/wk | 8.6k stars, 4.4M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |