IDE extension community
Risk level
medium
50/100

Augment ↗

Augment is a community-maintained IDE extension from Augment Code. Anomity scores its risk at 50 out of 100 (medium).

filesystem:read network:outbound credentials:access

Analysis summary

Augment is a community-maintained IDE extension from Augment Code. Anomity scores its risk at 50 out of 100 (medium).

Augment is an enterprise-focused AI coding assistant whose pitch centers on continuous, full-repository codebase indexing. Instead of feeding a model only the file currently open, Augment maintains a dense semantic index of the entire codebase and feeds the most relevant snippets into every completion, chat, or refactor — which becomes especially valuable on large, polyglot monorepos.

The extension reads files across the open workspace and across any repositories the team has connected to Augment's index, makes outbound network requests to Augment's hosted service for completions, chat, and indexing pushes, and stores credentials for the user's Augment account in the IDE secret store. It does not request filesystem write or shell execute permissions, which makes its declared attack surface narrower than the fully agentic coding extensions.

Augment is community trust in Anomity's catalog because it is an independent vendor rather than a marketplace platform. The active risk signals come from the credential + outbound network pairing, which is the standard cost of any SaaS coding assistant. Teams adopting Augment should validate the vendor's data-handling and code-residency terms — the value of full-repo indexing comes with the cost of transmitting all of that code to the vendor.

Why this entry scored 50 out of 100

This profile starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50. Because the entry is community-maintained, trust adjusts the score by -10. Declared high-risk capabilities add +10 (capped at +30). It matches no dangerous capability combinations. The clamped result is 50, placing it in the medium band.

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Findings

  • Established community project Trust offset
    Contribution to score: -10
  • 1 high-risk capability: credentials:access High
    Contribution to score: +10

Capabilities

Every capability the entry declares, with the security implication of each.

  • filesystem:read Filesystem read
    Can read files on the host system. Used for context, indexing, or analysis.
  • network:outbound Outbound network
    Can make outbound network requests. Required for hosted model providers and remote APIs; also the path for data exfiltration if combined with read access.
  • credentials:access Credentials access
    Reads provider API keys, OAuth tokens, or other secrets from the host keychain or environment.