Augment Code

Augment Code is an advanced AI software development platform designed for engineers who build and ship real software at scale. It addresses the critical challenge of integrating AI effectively into complex codebases by leveraging an industry-leading context engine, enabling autonomous agents to understand, plan, build, and deliver production-grade code directly within your workflow.

Key Features

• ✨ Autonomous AI Agents: Empower agents to take the lead on tasks, from planning and building to opening pull requests for your review. These agents operate locally or remotely, running commands in your terminal with your approval or automatically, mirroring your natural development process.

• 🧠 Industry-Leading Context Engine: Experience unparalleled codebase understanding, whether your project is large or small. Augment's proprietary context retrieval combined with cutting-edge frontier models provides a real-time index of your code, ensuring precise and relevant AI assistance.

• 💻 Seamless IDE & Terminal Integration: Work where you're most comfortable. Augment integrates natively with popular IDEs like Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDEs, Vim, and Neovim, alongside a powerful CLI tool (Auggie) that extends full AI automation and context directly to your terminal.

• 💡 Intelligent Code Assistance: Boost your productivity with a suite of AI tools. Utilize intelligent chat for instant answers and project planning, employ "Smart Apply" for one-click code updates, and leverage "Next Edit" for turn-by-turn directions across files, tests, and documentation. Get lightning-fast, codebase-aware code completions tailored to your project.

Use Cases

• Accelerated Onboarding & Codebase Navigation: Quickly get up to speed on new projects or unfamiliar parts of a codebase. Augment provides deep context awareness, allowing engineers to investigate bugs, understand system architecture, and learn new APIs in minutes.

• Automated Feature Development & Refactoring: Tackle complex migrations, build new features, or perform extensive refactors with confidence. Autonomous agents and intelligent assistance manage the challenges of production-grade software, understanding your code, APIs, schemas, and dependencies.

• Streamlined Debugging & Code Review: Utilize Augment to debug issues, integrate context-aware AI into your CI/CD pipelines for automated code reviews, and even jump-start incident response, ensuring higher code quality and faster problem resolution.

Unique Advantages

Augment Code stands apart in the AI coding landscape, consistently outperforming alternatives in key areas, as highlighted by engineers who have used it:

• Superior Contextual Understanding: Unlike many tools that struggle with large or complex codebases, Augment's context engine delivers a profound understanding of your project, enabling it to make highly accurate suggestions and solve intricate problems that others cannot. Users frequently note its ability to reason and articulate steps before generating code, fostering confidence.

• Enhanced Accuracy and Reliability: Engineers report that Augment rarely makes mistakes, leading to significantly less rework. Its deep codebase awareness allows it to fix code and handle multi-file refactors effortlessly, even in thousands of lines of code where other tools "choke."

• Measurable Productivity Gains: Teams experience substantial increases in developer productivity, with some reporting over a 40% boost. Complex migrations that once took weeks can now be completed in days by senior engineers.

• Developer-Centric Design: Every feature is built by and for engineers who ship software at scale, ensuring it integrates seamlessly into existing workflows and provides genuine value without disrupting flow.

• Security and Privacy by Design: Augment prioritizes the security and privacy of your code, offering peace of mind by addressing these concerns proactively and by default.

Conclusion

Augment Code empowers software engineers to move faster and build better software with unprecedented confidence. By deeply understanding your codebase and automating complex tasks, it allows you to focus on solving problems rather than just writing code.

Explore how Augment Code can transform your development workflow and help you ship more, with greater efficiency and quality.

FAQ

Q: What IDEs and environments does Augment Code support? A: Augment Code offers native integrations for popular IDEs including Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDEs (like WebStorm, PyCharm, IntelliJ), and text editors such as Vim and Neovim. Additionally, its powerful CLI tool, Auggie, extends full AI capabilities and context to your terminal, integrating into any part of your development workflow.

Q: How does Augment Code's "context engine" provide superior understanding compared to other AI coding tools? A: Augment's context engine uses proprietary retrieval methods combined with cutting-edge frontier models to create a real-time, comprehensive index of your entire codebase. This allows it to understand not just isolated files, but the intricate relationships between code, APIs, schemas, and dependencies across large projects. This deep, holistic understanding is what enables its agents to plan, build, and make precise changes with far greater accuracy and relevance than tools relying on more limited context.

Q: Is my code secure and private when using Augment Code? A: Yes, security and privacy are fundamental design principles for Augment Code. Your code is secure and private by default, and the platform is built to integrate securely into enterprise environments. You can also set tool permissions to control what the agent can access and do within your stack, ensuring your data remains protected.