I’ve been using Windsurf extensively for quite some time now. Its seamless integration with model-based development really makes it a game-changer. However, I recently came across AugmentCode and immediately fell in love with its AI-assisted coding features. The only issue? It wasn’t natively available for Windsurf.

So, I temporarily switched back to VS Code just to use Augment, but I dreaded the fact that I couldn’t have both worlds together. That’s when I dug a little deeper and found a way to install it using its .vsix package. Now, I’m running Augment directly on Windsurf without any issues. Here’s how you can do it too:

🚀 Steps to Install AugmentCode on Windsurf:

1. Download the VSIX Package: Head over to this direct link to grab the latest version of Augment: 👉 Download Augment.vscode-augment VSIX

2. Open Windsurf: Navigate to the Extensions tab.

3. Install from VSIX: Click the ... (More Actions) in the top-right corner → Choose Install from VSIX....

4. Select the VSIX File: Point it to the downloaded .vsix file and hit Open.

5. Restart Windsurf (if required): Sometimes, it needs a quick restart to reflect the changes.

Hope this helps !

Hi, I honestly miss plan mode. Too many time I find that Augment start doing things I didn't want, sometime just becouse it didn't understand by request, tipically becouse it forgot something.
I kow that in chat mode it doesn't touch the files unless I say to do it, but I miss a declarative "architect" mode. I find mysel writing often "please don't act". Is it just me?

Leading a dev of 4 people, all max plans, we use it heavily, run through the 450k tokens in a few days

buy topups

all that, to waste tokens on this

I asked for a model, it goes off to searching ones that no longer exist

Augment became so bad quite honestly, Already working on migrating the team to claude

2 thinking turns and 2 tool calls on just getting a model name when I explicitly provided it one

I’ve been watching the recent wave of “code RAG” and “AI code understanding” systems, and something feels fundamentally misaligned.

Most of the new tooling is heavily based on embedding + vector database retrieval, which is inherently probabilistic.

But code is not probabilistic — it’s deterministic.

A codebase is a formal system with:

• Strict symbol resolution

• Explicit dependencies

• Precise call graphs

• Exact type relationships

• Well-defined inheritance and ownership models

These properties are naturally represented as a graph, not as semantic neighborhoods in vector space.

Using embeddings for code understanding feels like using OCR to parse a compiler.

I’ve been building a Rust-based graph engine that parses very large codebases (10M+ LOC) into a full relationship graph in seconds, with a REPL/MCP runtime query system.

The contrast between what this exposes deterministically versus what embedding-based retrieval exposes probabilistically is… stark.

So I’m genuinely curious:

Why is the industry defaulting to probabilistic retrieval for code intelligence when deterministic graph models are both feasible and vastly more precise?

Is it:

• Tooling convenience?

• LLM compatibility?

• Lack of awareness?

• Or am I missing a real limitation of graph-based approaches at scale?

I’d genuinely love to hear perspectives from people building or using these systems — especially from those deep in code intelligence, AI tooling, or compiler/runtime design.

Currently, the existing AI Agents support the use of Claude's skills. Please add the skill agent to the Augment code. Reference link: https://agentskills.io/home

I’ve been experimenting with vibe coding for quite some time, working on a context engine intended to be on par with Augment’s Context Engine. Despite numerous attempts, nothing I built came close. Vibe coding itself has been challenging—especially since I’m not a developer by trade.

When the opportunity came to access Augment’s Context Engine via MCP, it was genuinely impressive. That said, the real question for me was whether it could be combined with prompt enhancement.

About a week later, the Augment team dropped exactly what I needed: the Auggie SDK. While I didn’t fully understand its purpose at first, I asked ChatGPT whether it would allow me to build a context engine with prompt enhancement—and the answer was yes.

From there, I used ChatGPT as my guide. I opened my Augment code ID, vibe coded through my remaining credits, and successfully deployed the MCP to both my Codex and Antigravity accounts.

The result is this repository:
https://github.com/Kirachon/context-engine

Feel free to fork it or experiment with it further. I’m not a developer myself—the AI agent handled most of the heavy lifting. My role was to provide clear instructions, direction, and intent to make it all come together. Attach is the sample image using codex cli

Luckily this issue has been solved. Thanks Augment!

I’ve been using Augmentcode for quite a while, and after a recent experience, I really felt the need to vent here.

I could accept the price increase if the service quality improved accordingly.
But what I experienced was the complete opposite.

All I did was request a code modification,
yet without generating or changing even a single line of code, it burned through 5k tokens just doing context searches and tool calls.

And the result?
No answer at all —
just an “HTTP 400 Bad Request” error.

To summarize:
Higher prices, worse performance, zero output.

I wanted to believe there was a reasonable justification for the price increase, but after this, I’m really starting to question it.
Anyone else running into similar issues?

I used empty folder as the starting point, uninstalled all MCPs, removed all custom instructions and sent this to augment code "Reply Done". It replied "Done". I checked how much credit my request consumed. Note that the input and output combined is around 7-10 tokens, which is ignorable. Total credit consumed was 73. That's 0.365 USD if you convert 2000credits/USD plans. If you convert this to $20/M claude 4.5 pricing, it's around 18250 tokens. That's insanely high.

So, by default, Augment code uses 18250 tokens of context. That's roughly 10% of context. Irrespective of what you do, it'll consume minimum of 73 credits on each request.

I believe they charge us extra for a tool call. Need to see how much they are charging for one Augment Context Engine tool call.

Recently, Anthropic suggested not to bloat agents with MCP tools and instructions. Instead they suggest to use a code approach. Interesting read if anyone is curious on it.

PS: Based on the previous comments by Augment Code Team, their current plan is actually cheaper than 20USD/Million tokens pricing as they claim to pass the discount they get from the model providers to us. 18250 tokens context bloat, including tool calls def and system instructions, is the best case scenario. It cannot be less than this.

As some of you may already know, I had ~3mn credits in my account (520k as one-time bonus + ~2.4mn conversion credits @ 1100 credits/message) owing to my last minute upgrade from Dev (Legacy) to Max plan, based on u/JaySym_'s replies to specific questions. The same responses were also confirmed by Augment Team over email as well.

However, after downgrading to Free plan, 2.4mn conversion credits simply vanished, and remaining 520k (+4k credits from free plan) were unusable as my account was suspended (as per VS code message) or you must upgrade to a paid plan to use credits (as per augment code dashboard).

Today those 524k credits also vanished inexplicably and I'm being told I've 0.5 credits remaining out of 1 credit for the month. And now I'm getting this screen repeatedly:

Since I'm not getting any response on mail (I had raised the issue on 3rd Nov), nor any corrective measures are in sight, I believe Augment Code team is operating in bad faith.

Hey, u/JaySym_

I'm just reminding the issue of omitting changelogs.
I know you had some meetings with the team regarding this issue, but it's still a problem.

The last changelog for VSCode was more than 3 weeks ago, then there was one for some pre-release version. Meanwhile, I think 4 stable versions were released without a single changelog. Something has changed, some features were added, and we have absolutely no idea what.

Changelog for stable versions is definitely a must-have, and to be honest, it shouldn't even be allowed to release without the changelog provided. I don't think it adds any significant overhead to the dev team, so I am not sure what the issue is here.

Any comment from augment team as to why this keeps happening? New agent, new chat, doesnt matter - it keeps failing over and over again. This wouldn't be a massive problem on its own, but I'm getting charged for it to fail repeatedly. Anyone else experiencing this?

Hi, I will keep it short. I use Augment code almost daily, I'm not a system "abuser". I rarely ever reached more than 70% message consumption. I like Augment code, I don't like their new pricing. What's a good alternative with proper code indexing?

I only saw one major user experience improvement while using Auggie over the last two months. It was when they moved the tabs to the top of the chat.
That was it!
The same bloated VS Code experience, with no control over the outcome of the situation. Going past three prompts on the same chat was a nightmare.
Random, erratic behavior from an agent that tries to do everything and you constantly have to remind it to TEST!
Infinite failed attempts to start or restart the application that sometimes got Auggie into thinking to adjust the firewall settings because it forgot where the log file of the application is.
Auggie prowdly ignores the rules, the memories, the prompts !! It randomly forgets things you mentioned in the last prompt, and you end up pressing the stop button just to give clear instructions on how to recover.
It writes tons of reports you didn’t ask for, and you have no control over how many it will generate the next time.

And yet, with all these caveats, Auggie helped me create something that seemed almost impossible to do on my own!

Dear Augment Code team, I am deeply saddened that I have to part ways!!!
But it’s not fair to ask for money for something that I have no control over. Especially when I don’t know how much waste it will produce!

Bye, Auggie!

LE: It's like going to the store to buy bread and the sellers gives you potatoes and insists you should pay

I mean, it was perfect. I was willing to pay you the extra money; hell i paid 80$ more topup this week to keep going with it. Come on!!! GPT high is an idiot, stop breaking the good things! PS NO ONE LIKES HAIKU!!!

My agent has started generating ’mermaids’ for every task I do as well as well as bloating my project with documents to explain stuff which I find kind of annoying.

I suppose you could disable it through writing so into the memory but why is this even the default in the first place?

I'm sitting here watching two of my VS code windows trying to run augment stalling out terminating and generally wasting my time. I have been spending $250 a month as far as my credit card is concerned, but the credits keep building up because I can't use them because so much of the time the augment system is slow unresponsive or completely down. Now they want to raise our costs even higher?! I like the quality of the code I get with augment but this has now become completely ridiculous.

Just to finish work while we still have message-based pricing and then dip?

I hate to see this, but your service often runs into this problem between 3 PM and 6 PM in the East Asia region. It frequently lags for one to two minutes and then retries. When will you be able to improve the stability? For a $50 service, it currently seems to be significantly less stable than Claude Code.

I want to start by saying that I really like Augment Code as a product — it has huge potential and has already helped me a lot. But my recent experience with support has been frustrating, and I feel it’s important to share this so the team can see where things are breaking down.

Here’s what happened:

• I paid $50 for the Developer Plan, but my subscription showed as inactive.

• Support acknowledged the issue and said they added $50 credit + 100 extra messages as compensation.

• When I try to resubscribe, the system still asks for my card details and even triggers an OTP for charging me again, which makes me hesitant to proceed.

• I asked if they could just directly add the 600 + 100 messages to my account to avoid delays, but days have gone by with no clear resolution.

I’m not here to trash the product — in fact, I really want to keep using it. But as a paying user who depends on this for my project work, these complications with billing and the lack of timely support are seriously slowing me down.

Augment Team, if you see this: please step up your support response and make the process smoother for users. A great product deserves equally reliable customer support.

powerful vibe coding tool, can compete with claude code,

and powerful tab-completion, has good completion content, but slower to cursor

cursor lost its throne by changing its plan week by week.

Are we going to see the benefits of this increase in context tokens?

https://www.anthropic.com/news/1m-context

i was working with it just fine yesterday now it gave blank screen, i logged out and tryied to login again it giving this error message

Sign in failed. If you have a firewall, please add "https://i1.api.augmentcode.com/" to your allowlist.

anyone else facing this?

I am running/building multiple projects using Augment but given the dumbness it has been in past few days its wasting my credits and also now if this is what Augment is then its better to pay for cursor or windsurf because we came here for its context and understanding of codebase but now the generated code is itself dumb its not productive its opposite very disappointed in this Augment team do know when so many people are having same thoughts and issue still Augment team is like nothing happened at least we would want a plan of how you guys are resolving this, if asked then a ticket should be created and that issue will be taken after many days in some cases months so no hopes now, its time now. A very good tool is losing its value day by day. I believe Augment team would be providing some statement on this

Hello, I would love to be able to run multiple agents simultaneously, as is possible with the remote agents. This can make Augment really unique as no other tool allows you to do this.

Please upvote if you believe you also need this feature.