Why We Built Remote Agent

Every engineering team has a graveyard of “we’ll-get-to-it” tickets: brittle tests, stale docs, tiny bugs, and those pesky “paper-cuts” that never climb the sprint wall. They’re important—just not important today.

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Introducing Remote Agent

Remote Agent allows you to parallelize Augment Agent to handle small tasks, clear your backlog, and eliminate engineering toil. Remote Agents run in the cloud, at any time, so you can spin up tickets, and then come back and review their work before you commit. 

Ask Remote Agent to: 

• Kill flaky tests that block CI runs
• Erase documentation debt—update READMEs, API examples, migration guides
• Refactor risk-free—wrap a legacy module in modern patterns, keep tests green
• Knock out bug-backlog tickets faster than triage meetings
• Raise coverage bars—write unit + integration tests until threshold ≥ 95 %
• Bulk-migrate configs or lint/format an entire repo without freezing your IDE

Best Practices for Remote Agent

With Remote Agent, congratulations- you're now a tech lead. The key to successfully managing a fleet of Remote Agents is to keep tasks small, well-scoped, specific, and validated. 

• Think “army of eager interns.” Assign tight, self-contained tickets you can review in one sitting.
• Bite-sized goals win. “Refactor X and run tests until green” outperforms vague requests like “Make the code better.”
• Demand self-validation. Include instructions to run the test suite, linter, or custom checks—Agents iterate until they pass.
• Review pull requests like you don’t trust them (because you shouldn’t—yet). Agents are cheap, not infallible.

Read our detailed guide to Agent best practices for more tips on working well with the Augment Code Agent.

Join the waitlist 

We’re metering access to keep feedback loops tight. To be one of the first to build with Remote Agents, sign up at augment.new.

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