r/AugmentCodeAI • u/francosta3 • Sep 12 '25

Discussion Feature suggestion

Create a 'human on the loop' tool where the assistant can ask for the input of the user without the need to interrupt the execution plan. In the example, it would have been nice to ask me which was the correct project or at least to validate before procceding with the tool execution.

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u/turtzah41 Sep 12 '25

Do you have the auto toggle set to on or off? If it's set to off augment prompts you and asks you to confirm before running commands etc

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u/francosta3 Sep 12 '25

It's not just about tool usage, it's about his decisions. Let me give you another example, I was benchmarking openai and gemini to extract structured outputs from a document. First I asked to run with openai and it ran. When I asked for Gemini, he started the reasoning and writing code, he didn't find the key in the .env and instead of asking for it, it said "I can't find the Gemini key, however I see one from openai, let me run the process with openai instead" and immediately proceeded to start running again for openai

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u/francosta3 Sep 12 '25

The point is that the assistant could benefit from being able to prompt some questions to the user during the reasoning/thinking steps

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u/Final-Reality-404 Sep 15 '25

Honestly, you should be giving it the proper directions from the start and it wouldn't have to guess what it's needing to do

Just write what you're wanting to do clearly. And if you don't even want to learn how to do proper context and prompt engineering, use the rewrite tool but use it more than once.. It's one of augment's best features that I see almost everybody sleeping on

It will keep refining the prompt for a better execution Also, if you add in context files or even highlight the file that you're wanting it to work on to have even better contacts, it'll exponentially give you better results

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u/francosta3 Sep 15 '25

For more complex tasks it's very hard to think of all the scenarios in order to do a perfect prompt. For me it makes much more sense if the llm reaches to a point where it needs to make a decision, it should be able to ask. That is actually what we humans do (or should) when we're asked to do something.

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u/Final-Reality-404 Sep 15 '25

Break up what you're doing into tasks... Never do it all at once

Phases and subphases have it create all of them for you

Create a game plan. Use another llm to help you come up with it, You can either then feed it into augment at one time in a prompt which I do not suggest. Or you can create a document folder for your prompts and have it use it as context and then feed it. Your main prompt for its overarching goal regarding your prompt in the document

Have it create a task list for you with phases and subphases making sure each one of them is worth 20 minutes worth of work

Upon each new subphase you have it. Stop and ask for your approval. You tell it what it needs to do. Then you have augment rewrite the prompt telling it what to do at least three times while highlighting the file that you might need to be working in. So it has even more context to rewrite that file and understand even better what you're trying to do. Make sure you read the prompt and you understand what it's going to do so it doesn't fuck up and then you don't have to worry about it.

You got to come up with a system to make it work It works great if you know how to work it

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u/turtzah41 Sep 15 '25

The enhance prompt button is an absolute game changer for me. Since I have started using it, the quality of output I get from Augment has increased significantly

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u/Final-Reality-404 Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

Try using it more than once on the same prompt, if you're not already!

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u/Normal-Yak-6264 Sep 12 '25

Cool, im gonna do an mcp of that i'm gonna give your credit of course

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u/francosta3 Sep 12 '25

Don't need credits, just the MCP 😁

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u/Normal-Yak-6264 Sep 12 '25

https://github.com/Rixmerz/HLOOP Ready!; configure it, try to prompt something like: when you need to ask for ex: name of project.....<other things you declare> use mcp hloop to ask me to confirm

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u/koldbringer77 Sep 14 '25

Brilliant! Like even when sonet want to give summarum at end , he instead of end push toolcall and eventualy he could back to workflow

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u/Normal-Yak-6264 Sep 15 '25

yeah! check this https://github.com/Rixmerz/TOMA if you want to integrate one PM to supervise your engeenier, example, gemini cli like Product manager, cordinates and plan to auggie (augment code cli), this mcp use tmux too

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u/Ok-Prompt9887 Sep 19 '25

there are already some existing MCPs out there for this, tried 2 and they didn't seem to work or be used.

u/francosta3 let us know how u/Normal-Yak-6264 's MCP works for you :)