# Auggie CLI vs Prime Agent (slim)

> Prime Agent scores 60.5 (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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Prime Agent scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Auggie CLI's 50.8 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Auggie CLI leads on schema & documentation. Both do agent harnesses.

- Auggie CLI: D 50.8, rank #872 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie.min.md
- Prime Agent: C 60.5, rank #562 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prime-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 42.
- Prime Agent, good for Long-running research and coding work where one model drives subagents, schedules and goals from code, and where the owner can isolate the machine. Ahead on Reliability, 65 against 43; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 65; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Maintenance & community, 79 against 58; Transparency & trust, 64 against 57. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Auggie CLI | Prime Agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 67 | 42 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 73 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 50 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Auggie CLI | Prime Agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Harness (formerly Augment Code) | Prime Intellect |
| 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 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated |  | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | no date given |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 16k npm/wk | 22k stars |