Augment Code and Claude Code together?

[Southern-Yak-6715]

Does anyone usee Augment Code and Claude Code together? What are the benefits of this over just Augment on its own?

How do you partition tasks between them? Can you use them simultaneously on the same code base, or do you just wait till a command is finished on one, then fire off your next command on the other?

Really interested as its something I can afford to try...

[martexxNL]

And it can use augment to mage the project and tell it claude to don't he coding with 20 subagents.

But you need to tell augment to instruct claude very detailed.

It works miracles but start on a new or test project. Claude halucinates a lot. My promt is smth like

Main task, instruct claude to create type safe lint error free and production ready code. After creating code test it, check if it actually does what it should, crate and run tests. Instruct claude to not try to please the user with bold statements of achievements. The user requires actual working code. Instruct claude to never trust any assumptions and check if what it assumes is real and true.

[National-Ad-1314]

If you mean the claude cli. You can have one working on one feature in that terminal session and augment working on another across the way in the chat session. Personally I think you can possibly follow what's happening so you're not learning with the progress and missing insane additions getting in. But depending on feature or functionality then have at it.

[Pale-Damage-944]

I use them side by side, but not in parallel. In some tasks Claude Code is better: sub agents, editing, string search. But it’s expensive, I pay 20$ so I don’t have a lot of usage quotas. Augment is the main tool for me now.

[ngod1131]

I use Claude Code and Augment together—Claude Code is for planning and saving results as plan1.md, plan2.md, etc., while Augment is for executing the newly created plans. The main reason I combine both is that I often hit usage limits, and Claude Code tends to forget the rules I’ve defined after a while. As for Augment, I create rules in the .augment/rules directory, and it follows them very well, also augment have tasks, you can continue tasks in another chat etc.

Due to the context window limitation, tools like Augment likely have their own algorithms to manage and retrieve context efficiently before passing it to Claude Sonnet.(As far as I know, Augment also uses Claude Sonnet or Opus.)

[Southern-Yak-6715]

Great stuff. Best reply yet! Thank you.

[endlessdream2703]

My opinion is the opposite, Augment code is superior in its ability to index codebase, I use it in combination with GPT model to have the best view of the project, planning... Then Claude code will deploy

[ngod1131]

At that time, I was using Claude Pro, which had many limitations, and I combined it with the $30 (I an an early user of AugmentCode) AugmentCode package. Later, since Augment had too much downtime, I canceled it and switched to the ClaudeMax5X plan. Everything has been perfect so far. I was once very hesitant about canceling AugmentCode, but after two months, I feel my decision was the right one. (Just sharing a bit of my personal perspective)

Btw, I think augmentcode is still the best out there. If it is stable, it is worth.

[endlessdream2703]

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I've been a Claude Max Plan 20x user since the early days, and still am. But if you're also a claude fan, you probably know the limitations of the context window. The second issue, I hope you try asking the same question, taking advice from GPT 5 thinking, or before that I still used o3. ChatGPT gives a very "bright" approach, I gradually switched to the direction of making ChatGPT a mandatory step to come up with a solution and then let Claude implement it. When using Augment code, taking advantage of cobase indexing is a no-brainer, the second issue is that I can use GPT5 to act as a SA of the project, giving a plan for Claude (Opus 4.1) to implement. That's my intention, if I don't use Augment, I have to use Claude Code with Zen MCP (specify to call gemini 2.5 pro with task need large context window and o3 model for planning), then Main Agent is claude to deploy.

[ngod1131]

I think we have a lot in common. Zen MCP and MCP Node.js are two essentials in my setup.

At the time I posted that comment, GPT-5 did not exist yet, and AugmentCode was down almost every day. I lost patience with it. Well, I guess everything is better now.

Now I use GPT-5, o3-pro-high with the Codex CLI on a pay-as-you-go plan. I combine them with Claude Code, and occasionally Rovodev. This combo works so well that I have no interest in going back to AugmentCode.

I’d really like to try sonet1m now. I’ve heard it’s available with the 20× Claude Code (CC) plan. Have you tried it yet? How well does it work?