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Augment: Coding Agent Built for Large, Complex Codebases

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Augment Code is the AI coding platform for VS Code, built for large, complex codebases. Powered by an industry-leading context engine, our Coding Agent understands your entire codebase — architecture, dependencies, and legacy code.

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SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Licenses

No license compliance issues

Secrets

No sensitive information found

Security

Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities detected

Hardening

8 execution hijacking concerns

Threats

Tampering

No evidence of software tampering

Malware

No evidence of malware inclusion

Overview issues17 vulnerabilities0 malware0 behaviors269 dependencies26 contributors1 versions793

Popularity

767.57k

Total Installs

Contributor

Declared Dependencies

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Problem

Software components are typically distributed in standardized packaging formats. Software packages are built from instructions written within package manifests that act as blueprints for package assembly. A package manifest declares the most important software properties, such as the package name, its authors and license, external dependencies, and various actions that may occur during the package lifecycle. Package managers are specialized tools used by developers to manage software components. Package managers read these manifests to deploy software components along with their dependencies. The premise of the package management system is that software components are isolated from each other, and that they rely on the package manager to provide their dependencies. However, it was detected that a software component includes code capable of accessing or modifying directories that are maintained exclusively by package managers. This is unusual as it resembles tactics used by threat actors that tamper with installed software components and inject malicious code into trusted execution paths.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No prevalence information at this time

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1554 - Compromise Host Software Binary.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Software components sometimes need to interact with sensitive parts of the runtime environment, often requiring privileged access to accomplish a task. Cloud workload configuration includes high-value information such as cloud provider credentials, environment variables containing secrets, and configuration files used by cloud and container orchestration tools. That information is used by applications running in cloud and containerized environments. Attackers often abuse access to cloud workload configuration to harvest secrets from developer machines and build environments, which can later be exfiltrated to attacker-controlled infrastructure and used to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources. While the presence of code that accesses cloud workload configuration does not necessarily imply malicious intent, all of its uses in a software package should be documented and approved. Only select software components should consider using functions that read cloud workload configuration. One example of acceptable use for such functions is infrastructure-as-code tooling that legitimately needs to read credentials to provision or manage cloud resources on behalf of the developer.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No prevalence information at this time

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1580 - Cloud Infrastructure Discovery.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Software components sometimes need to interact with sensitive parts of the runtime environment, often requiring privileged access to accomplish a task. Build pipeline configuration includes high-value information such as CI/CD platform secrets and tokens, pipeline definition files and runner configuration, build-time environment variables containing signing keys or deploy credentials, and artifact registry and package publishing credentials. That information is used by continuous integration and delivery systems. Attackers often abuse access to build pipeline configuration to harvest secrets from build environments, which can later be exfiltrated to attacker-controlled infrastructure and used to tamper with software releases or publish malicious artifacts under trusted identities. While the presence of code that accesses build pipeline configuration does not necessarily imply malicious intent, all of its uses in a software package should be documented and approved. Only select software components should consider using functions that read build pipeline configuration. One example of acceptable use for such functions is release tooling that reads publishing credentials to push artifacts.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No prevalence information at this time

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1072 - Software Deployment Tools.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are structured addresses that point to locations and assets on the internet. URLs allow software developers to build complex applications that exchange data with servers that can be hosted in multiple geographical regions. URLs can commonly be found embedded in documentation, configuration files, source code and compiled binaries. One or more embedded URLs were discovered to link to raw files hosted on GitHub. Attackers often abuse popular web services to host malicious payloads. Since code-sharing service URLs are typically allowed by security solutions, using them for payload delivery increases the odds that the malicious code will reach the user. While the presence of code-sharing service locations does not imply malicious intent, all of their uses in a software package should be documented and approved. An increasing number of software supply chain attacks in the open source space leverage the GitHub service to deliver malicious payloads.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

79 packages

found in

Top 100

622 packages

found in

Top 1k

4233 packages

found in

Top 10k

29.36k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

If the software should not include these network references, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.

Consider an alternative delivery mechanism for software packages.

Problem

Software developers use programming and design knowledge to build reusable software components. Software components are the basic building blocks for modern applications. Software consumed by an enterprise consists of hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of open source components. Software developers publish components they have authored to public repositories. While a new software project is a welcome addition to the open source community, it is not always prudent to indiscriminately use the latest components when building a commercial application. Irrespective of the software quality, the danger of being the first to try out a new project lies in the fact that the software component may contain novel, currently undetected malicious code. Therefore, it is prudent to review software component behaviors and even try out software component in a sandbox, an environment meant for testing untrusted code.

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

25 packages

found in

Top 100

151 packages

found in

Top 1k

793 packages

found in

Top 10k

3.71k packages

in community

Next steps

Check the software component behaviors for anomalies.

Consider exploratory software component testing within a sandbox environment.

Consider replacing the software component with a more widely used alternative.

Avoid using this software package until it is vetted as safe.

Top behaviors

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Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)

67 packages

found in

Top 100

547 packages

found in

Top 1k

2891 packages

found in

Top 10k

14.99k packages

in community

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Top vulnerabilities

No vulnerabilities found.

FAQ for Augment: Coding Agent Built for Large, Complex Codebases

What is Augment: Coding Agent Built for Large, Complex Codebases?

Is Augment: Coding Agent Built for Large, Complex Codebases malicious or is it safe to use?

The VS Code package Augment: Coding Agent Built for Large, Complex Codebases was scanned for malware, software tampering, risky behaviors, exposed secrets and known vulnerabilities. The package contains risks, and the analysis results should be reviewed before it is downloaded and used. Visit the Issues and Behaviors sections of the analysis for more details.

Is Augment: Coding Agent Built for Large, Complex Codebases popular?

The VS Code package Augment: Coding Agent Built for Large, Complex Codebases ranks among the top 1000 projects in this community. It has 768K recorded downloads. A package's popularity is not a good indicator of its safety, visit the SAFE Assessment section to see the full analysis of package deployment risk categories.

How do I secure Augment: Coding Agent Built for Large, Complex Codebases once it is in my app?

Since we can't know when or where malicious attacks will happen, we recommend tracking how Augment: Coding Agent Built for Large, Complex Codebases behaviors change over multiple software releases. By adopting differential analysis in your release process, you can detect unexpected changes to a Augment: Coding Agent Built for Large, Complex Codebases version, which can prevent advanced software supply chain attacks. Read how our technology can help prevent future attacks similar to SolarWinds and 3CX.

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Popularity

767.57k

Total Installs

Contributor

Declared Dependencies

Dependents

Top issues

See all issues

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No prevalence information at this time

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1554 - Compromise Host Software Binary.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No prevalence information at this time

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1580 - Cloud Infrastructure Discovery.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No prevalence information at this time

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1072 - Software Deployment Tools.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

79 packages

found in

Top 100

622 packages

found in

Top 1k

4233 packages

found in

Top 10k

29.36k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

If the software should not include these network references, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.

Consider an alternative delivery mechanism for software packages.

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

25 packages

found in

Top 100

151 packages

found in

Top 1k

793 packages

found in

Top 10k

3.71k packages

in community

Next steps

Check the software component behaviors for anomalies.

Consider exploratory software component testing within a sandbox environment.

Consider replacing the software component with a more widely used alternative.

Avoid using this software package until it is vetted as safe.

Top behaviors

See all behaviors

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Behavior often found in this community (Common)

67 packages

found in

Top 100

547 packages

found in

Top 1k

2891 packages

found in

Top 10k

14.99k packages

in community

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

No behavior prevalence information at this time

Top vulnerabilities

No vulnerabilities found.

Augment: Coding Agent Built for Large, Complex Codebases

SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Security

Threats

Popularity

Top issues

TH16129Detected presence of software components that can tamper with other installed software.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

TH16130Detected presence of software components that can access sensitive cloud workload configuration.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

TH16131Detected presence of software components that can access sensitive build pipeline configuration.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

TH17127Detected presence of files containing URLs that link to raw files on GitHub.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

TH30106Detected presence of software components that have low popularity or number of downloads.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

Top behaviors

Reads from cloud provider configuration files.steal

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Reads from CI/CD configuration files.steal

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Modifies file/directory permissions.permissions

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Writes to directories managed by package managers.file

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Writes to cloud provider configuration files.file

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Top vulnerabilities

FAQ for Augment: Coding Agent Built for Large, Complex Codebases

What is Augment: Coding Agent Built for Large, Complex Codebases?

Is Augment: Coding Agent Built for Large, Complex Codebases malicious or is it safe to use?

Is Augment: Coding Agent Built for Large, Complex Codebases popular?

How do I secure Augment: Coding Agent Built for Large, Complex Codebases once it is in my app?

Did you know...

Popularity

Top issues

TH16129Detected presence of software components that can tamper with other installed software.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

TH16130Detected presence of software components that can access sensitive cloud workload configuration.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

TH16131Detected presence of software components that can access sensitive build pipeline configuration.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

TH17127Detected presence of files containing URLs that link to raw files on GitHub.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

TH30106Detected presence of software components that have low popularity or number of downloads.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Next steps

Top behaviors

Reads from cloud provider configuration files.steal

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Reads from CI/CD configuration files.steal

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Modifies file/directory permissions.permissions

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Writes to directories managed by package managers.file

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Writes to cloud provider configuration files.file

Prevalence in Visual Studio Code community

Top vulnerabilities