# Rishi Singh (slim)

> Rishi Singh is co-founder and board member, Harness of and its founding CTO. Auggie CLI on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder and board member, Harness, and its founding CTO.

Rishi 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.

## What Rishi builds

- [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.

## Works with

- [Guy Gur-Ari](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/guy-gur-ari/), Co-founder, Augment Code
- [Igor Ostrovsky](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/igor-ostrovsky/), Co-founder and CTO, Augment Code
- [Jyoti Bansal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jyoti-bansal/), Co-founder and CEO, Harness
- [Matt McClernan](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/matt-mcclernan/), CEO, Augment Code

## Backed by

- [Sutter Hill Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sutter-hill-ventures/)
- [Index Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/index-ventures/)
- [Innovation Endeavors](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/innovation-endeavors/)
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/lightspeed-venture-partners/)
- [Meritech Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/meritech-capital/)

## Questions

### Who is Rishi Singh?

Rishi 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.

### What does Harness (formerly Augment Code) make?

Anchor Terminal lists Auggie CLI from Harness (formerly Augment Code).

### Who has invested in Harness (formerly Augment Code)?

The sources our research read name Sutter Hill Ventures, Index Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Meritech Capital.

### How are Rishi's tools graded?

Auggie CLI is graded D, 51 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.harness.io/press-and-news/harness-acquires-augment-code
- https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/augment-code-next-chapter
- https://x.com/igoro
- https://www.humanx.co/speakers/guy-gur-ari
- https://x.com/guygr
- https://www.augmentcode.com/
- https://support.augmentcode.com/
- https://docs.augmentcode.com/cli/overview
- https://docs.augmentcode.com/troubleshooting/feedback
- https://www.augmentcode.com/legal/sla-and-support-policy

These 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.