Secure by Default: Why Snyk and Augment Code are the New Standard for AI Development

AI coding assistants have fundamentally changed development velocity. With tools like Augment Code, developers can now build and iterate at a pace that was unimaginable just a few years ago. However, this explosion in speed has created a new challenge: security teams, often still relying on manual review processes, are becoming the bottleneck.

When security cannot scale at the same rate as development, organizations are forced into a difficult choice: slow down innovation or accumulate dangerous security debt.

Today, we are excited to announce a new partnership between Snyk and Augment Code to ensure you never have to make that trade-off. Augment Code is an AI-native software development platform built for teams, leveraging a proprietary context engine to provide codebase-aware assistance and autonomous agents that handle complex engineering tasks at scale. By embedding Snyk’s security intelligence directly into the Augment Code workflow, we are making "Secure by Default" a reality for AI-driven development.

The challenge: Velocity without governance

Existing codebases often carry a hidden backlog of vulnerabilities, and as AI agents generate new code in real-time, that backlog can grow exponentially. Without embedded safeguards, the tools meant to accelerate development can inadvertently introduce risks into the software supply chain.

The solution: Snyk and Augment Code

As AI-native development becomes the standard, we need security that is continuous and native. This integration moves the entire remediation workflow–from detection to validated fix–directly into the developer's environment via a natural language interface. By connecting Snyk’s industry-leading security intelligence with Augment’s AI-powered platform, teams gain three critical capabilities:

• Real-time security scanning: As developers write code, Snyk analyzes it in the background, flagging issues in-line with context so developers can address them instantly.

• Accelerated agent-led remediation: When Snyk identifies a vulnerability, the Augment Agent can leverage that context to implement recommended fixes automatically using natural language commands.

• Governance at scale: Security leaders can apply custom Snyk rules that the Augment Agent uses as context, ensuring that every piece of AI-generated code remains compliant with organizational policies.

Continuous security posture improvement

This partnership doesn't just secure new code; it helps you burn down your existing backlog. With continuous scanning and autonomous remediation, the mean time to remediate (MTTR) decreases significantly. This low-friction, low-cost integration ensures that security is no longer an optional or manual step, but a fundamental part of the execution loop.

The Snyk and Augment Code integration is available immediately for joint customers. Start securing your AI-driven workflows today with our quickstart guide.

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