augment is a coding agent. nia is an external context engine for coding agents that improves their code output quality

Sure, but Augment’s main value add is their context engine, and imo they do it really well. If all they had to do was launch an MCP for their context engine product to compete, I think the comparison is still worth exploring.

yeah, their mcp is to provide better context of your own codebase. not external information.