Software delivery platform Harness Inc. has acquired selected assets of AI coding startup Augment Code Computing Inc., and the Augment team is joining Harness, SiliconANGLE reported Thursday. The deal gives Harness a code-generation front end to pair with its existing automation for testing and deploying software. Financial terms were not disclosed.

What Happened

The centerpiece of the purchase is Cosmos, Augment's cloud platform for engineering teams that lets developers describe work in natural language and coordinate several AI agents that write and maintain the code. Harness plans to rebrand it as Harness Cosmos Software Factory.

Harness is also taking Augment's Auggie command-line products, its Code Context Engine and related technology. The context engine is the part of Augment's stack that feeds an agent information about the codebase it is working in.

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The deal is structured as an asset purchase, not an acquisition of Augment Code Computing as a whole. SiliconANGLE's report did not say what becomes of the remaining company or of existing Augment customer contracts.

Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal framed the deal around a gap between writing code and shipping it. In his view, getting from an idea to code and getting that code into production are still two separate jobs, with a person steering each step between them by hand. Bansal also said Harness customers could keep their preferred coding tools, adopt Cosmos, or use both.

Augment CTO Igor Ostrovsky said the combined company could make engineering work "increasingly automatic," with engineers stepping in only where their judgment is needed.

Why It Matters

Harness sells a platform that automates much of what happens after code is written: building, testing, security checks, deployment, runtime protection and cloud cost management, across cloud, container and on-premises environments. Until now it relied on other vendors' tools for the generation step.

With Cosmos, Harness can offer what it describes as an agent-to-agent pipeline: Augment-derived agents produce the code, and Harness's delivery agents carry it through testing and release. That positions the company to compete for the whole workflow rather than only the back half, at a time when coding assistants from model makers and developer platforms are widely available.

The asset structure also matters. Buying the product and hiring the team, rather than the corporate entity, lets an acquirer pick the technology it wants. Large AI companies used similar arrangements in 2025, including Google's licensing and hiring deal with the leaders of Windsurf.

Context

Bansal founded Harness after selling application monitoring company AppDynamics to Cisco in 2017. Harness has expanded from continuous delivery into a broader suite covering feature flags, security testing and cost management.

Augment Code built its business around helping AI agents work inside large, existing codebases rather than greenfield projects, which is why the Code Context Engine is singled out in the deal. Cosmos was its newer, cloud-hosted product for running multiple agents on the same task.

What to Watch

Harness has not said when Harness Cosmos Software Factory will be generally available or how it will be priced alongside the company's existing modules. Current users of Augment's Auggie tools will be looking for guidance on whether their accounts and integrations carry over.

Another open question is how tightly Cosmos will be tied to Harness. Bansal's promise that customers can keep their own coding tools suggests Harness intends to keep its delivery platform open to code written by competing agents, while offering Cosmos as an integrated option.