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  "markdown": "Co-founder and board member, Harness, and its founding CTO.\n\nRishi Singh co-founded Harness and was its founding chief technology officer, leading the company through its first five years and building its founding engineering team. He now sits on its board. Before Harness he led DevOps projects at Apple. He studied computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.\n\n## What Rishi builds\n\n- [Auggie CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie.md), graded D, 51/100, in Agent harnesses. Augment Code's terminal coding agent, owned by Harness since 8 October 2026. It runs interactively, in print mode for scripts and CI, as an ACP agent for editors and as an MCP server for code retrieval. Co-founder and board member, Harness, and its founding CTO, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Guy Gur-Ari](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/guy-gur-ari/), Co-founder, Augment Code\n- [Igor Ostrovsky](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/igor-ostrovsky/), Co-founder and CTO, Augment Code\n- [Jyoti Bansal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jyoti-bansal/), Co-founder and CEO, Harness\n- [Matt McClernan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/matt-mcclernan/), CEO, Augment Code\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Sutter Hill Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sutter-hill-ventures/)\n- [Index Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/index-ventures/)\n- [Innovation Endeavors](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/innovation-endeavors/)\n- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lightspeed-venture-partners/)\n- [Meritech Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/meritech-capital/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Rishi Singh?\n\nRishi Singh co-founded Harness and was its founding chief technology officer, leading the company through its first five years and building its founding engineering team. He now sits on its board. Before Harness he led DevOps projects at Apple. He studied computer science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.\n\n### What does Harness (formerly Augment Code) make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Auggie CLI from Harness (formerly Augment Code). Augment Code's terminal coding agent, owned by Harness since 8 October 2026. It runs interactively, in print mode for scripts and CI, as an ACP agent for editors and as an MCP server for code retrieval.\n\n### Who has invested in Harness (formerly Augment Code)?\n\nThe sources our research read name Sutter Hill Ventures, Index Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Meritech Capital.\n\n### How are Rishi's tools graded?\n\nAuggie CLI is graded D, 51 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.harness.io/press-and-news/harness-acquires-augment-code\n- https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/augment-code-next-chapter\n- https://x.com/igoro\n- https://www.humanx.co/speakers/guy-gur-ari\n- https://x.com/guygr\n- https://www.augmentcode.com/\n- https://support.augmentcode.com/\n- https://docs.augmentcode.com/cli/overview\n- https://docs.augmentcode.com/troubleshooting/feedback\n- https://www.augmentcode.com/legal/sla-and-support-policy\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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