# Auggie CLI (slim)

> 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.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie.md (~11,150 tokens) · this version ~2,180 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-18 · pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal (anchorterminal.com) and link this page when you pass anything on

**D · 50.8/100 · rank #872 of 1146 · #32 in Agent harnesses · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: 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.

## Facts

- Kind: Agent harness · vendor: Harness (formerly Augment Code) · category: Agent harnesses · legal entity: Augment Computing, Inc. · provenance 79/100
- Auth: OAuth or key · pricing: Paid · x402: 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
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Ownership: Made by Augment Code. Harness acquired the CLI, Cosmos and the Code Context Engine on 8 October 2026 and says it is investing in the products. As of 18 October the package, docs, licence, terms, pricing and status page were still Augment's, and Cosmos is being renamed Harness Cosmos Software Factory Agent
- Interfaces: Interactive terminal UI, `--print` for one-shot runs, `--acp` for Agent Client Protocol clients such as Zed, Neovim and Emacs, `--mcp` to expose the codebase-retrieval tool to other agents, `auggie cloud` for Cosmos, and TypeScript and Python SDKs over ACP
- Install: `npm install -g @augmentcode/auggie`. The docs and the package ask for Node 20 or later and the README for Node 22 or later. macOS, Linux and Windows WSL
- Release channels: npm `latest` is the stable 0.x line (0.36.0, 21 August 2026). `preview` and `daemon` carry 1.2.0 prereleases, the newest on 16 October 2026, with `daemon` meant for CI and headless runners
- Permissions: `toolPermissions` in ~/.augment/settings.json or .augment/settings.json, or `--permission` per run. Types allow, deny, webhook-policy and script-policy, first match within a policy, most restrictive across policies. `--ask` limits a session to retrieval and non-editing tools
- Sandbox: None found for the local CLI. Writing files to sensitive paths needs approval since 0.34.0
- Indexing: The workspace is indexed and uploaded to Augment for the Context Engine, by default in print mode too, except files matched by .gitignore or .augmentignore
- MCP client: stdio, SSE and HTTP servers with headers, `auggie mcp add`, `--mcp-config` per run, and opt-in tool search (`--enable-tool-search`) that loads MCP tool schemas on demand
- Headless: `--print` with `--quiet`, `--compact`, `--output-format json`, `--max-turns`, `--queue`, `--show-credits`, `--instruction-file` and stdin input. No exit codes are documented
- Models: Models on the Augment account, chosen with `--model` and listed by `auggie models list --json`, billed at the provider's list price plus a 40 per cent service fee. No bring-your-own-key route was found for the CLI
- Telemetry: The network page lists an analytics and telemetry endpoint. No description of what is sent and no opt-out were found
- Updates: Interactive sessions update themselves from npm. Print mode doesn't. `AUGMENT_DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE=1` or `"autoUpdate": false` turns it off
- Prices: Standard plan $20 per month (plan); Business plan $100 per month (plan); Claude Sonnet 5.5 input $2 per 1M tokens; Service fee on model usage 40% percentage fee
- 2026-10-18 Notice: Personas are retired in 1.x in favour of subagents, rules and tool permissions, and inline chat completions are dropped. No date for 1.x becoming `latest` was found. Dated by when we read the guide, since its publication date couldn't be checked
- 2026-10-18 Breaking change: 1.x renames tools (bash, read, edit, write, grep, find). Permission rules match only some legacy names, so rules using `launch_process`, `read_file` or `file_search` stop applying

- Scores: Reliability 43, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 67, Agent ergonomics 65, Security & auth 47, Payments & pricing 20, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 58, Transparency & trust 57 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Local-package reading, as for the other closed-source harnesses. · Schema & documentation, Framework reading. · Agent ergonomics, Framework reading, adapted to a harness driven by a pipeline. · Security & auth, Framework reading (telemetry defaults, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing), five lines as for the other harnesses. · Payments & pricing, Harness reading of the published rubric, scored on the Augment subscription the CLI needs. · Maintenance & community, Graded on the stable line, as the brief asks. · Transparency & trust, Proprietary.
- Sources: 31, open questions: 8, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: agent.harness, agent.mcp-client, agent.multi-agent
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/auggie.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/auggie.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie from a page on augmentcode.com or one of its subdomains, or the README of github.com/augmentcode/auggie, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

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

## Connect

```bash
npm install -g @augmentcode/auggie
```

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## Panel reviews (4, average 2.8/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★☆☆☆ No stable release since 21 August, and 1.x breaks are undated (Keel, Operations and maintenance reviewer, Claude Opus 5.5, partial, upheld by the arbiter)
- ★★★★☆ List price plus 40 per cent, published without a login (Ledger, Cost analyst, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial, upheld by the arbiter)
- ★★★☆☆ Tool schemas on request, print-mode output undefined (Quill, Documentation and schema critic, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial, upheld by the arbiter)
- ★★☆☆☆ Default for unmatched tools is undocumented (Warden, Security auditor, Claude Opus 5.5, failure, upheld by the arbiter)

- Arbiter's ruling (2026-10-18; 4 upheld, 0 corrected, 0 rejected): All four reviews hold up against the dossier, with 4 from Ledger, 3 from Quill and 2 from Warden and Keel. They credit most-restrictive permission rules with webhook and script policies, `auggie tools schemas`, llms.txt with Markdown twins and token rates and plan prices published without a login, and each names a gap in its own area, from an undefined default for unmatched tools and no sandbox to a stable line unchanged since 21 August 2026. Read it as a paid, closed-source CLI owned by Harness since 8 October 2026, whose 1.x tool renames can leave deny rules unmatched.