Harness buys Cosmos and Auggie CLI assets from Augment Code

Harness buys Cosmos and Auggie CLI assets from Augment Code

8 October 2026: Harness, the software delivery platform vendor, has acquired select assets from Augment Code Computing, including the Cosmos multi-agent coding platform, the Auggie command-line tools and the Code Context Engine. The Augment team moves to Harness. Neither side has published a price.

Not yet independently verified. Harness's own press release could not be located, so the Harness side rests on its CEO's statements to SiliconANGLE. Price, closing terms and the future of Augment Code's existing contracts are not disclosed. We will update this when it can be confirmed, and remove this note.

The deal is an asset purchase, not a merger of companies. Augment Code's chief executive, Matt McClernan, wrote on the company's blog that Augment agreed to sell these products because Harness's integrated platform delivers the capabilities to customers more effectively than building them independently. The team behind them goes along to keep developing them inside Harness.

Harness plans to rename Cosmos as Harness Cosmos Software Factory. Its stated aim is to automate engineering work from idea to code, after which Harness's existing agents for delivery, security testing, runtime protection and cost management take over the pipeline. Co-founder and chief executive Jyoti Bansal told SiliconANGLE that today turning an idea into code and taking that code to production are two separate jobs, with someone steering every step in between. Harness wants to join the two.

For existing Augment users, Bansal's message was that nothing is taken away. Customers can keep using their preferred coding tools, adopt Cosmos, or use both. What changes, he said, is that code generation and maintenance will share context with testing and security, so those checks sit inside the work rather than on a separate dashboard.

What the announcements do not say is what happens to Augment Code's current subscriptions, pricing and data-handling terms once the products sit under Harness. McClernan's post thanks customers and says nothing about contract transfer. Teams that run Auggie CLI or Cosmos today should ask their account contact in writing how their agreement carries over, and whether any code context already indexed by the Context Engine will be held under Harness's terms.

The move also changes the shape of the market. Harness has so far sold software delivery, security and cost tooling, and now adds a coding product of its own. Our DevOps software category lists 15 products and our AI coding assistant category lists six.

Harness describes its platform as automating build, test and deployment across cloud, container and on-premises environments. Augment Code's blog says the remaining company is thanking its investors for the runway; it does not describe what, if anything, stays with Augment Code Computing.

Company profile on TrustList: Harness

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Sources

• Augment Code: Augment Code's next chapter (CEO Matt McClernan), 8 October 2026
• SiliconANGLE: Harness acquires Augment Code (interview with Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal), 8 October 2026