Agentic Index
Augment Code vs Tabnine (2026)
Augment Code last verified ·Tabnine last verified
Both serve organizations with real constraints and the constraints are different. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Tabnine's whole argument is deployment: on premise and air gapped with private repository models, from $39 per user a month billed annually. Augment's Cosmos coordinates specialized agent teams across the lifecycle with shared memory and MCP and webhook integrations, from $20 a month flat. Code that cannot leave your network points to Tabnine's on premises and air gapped deployment.
On the Agentic Index coding agent ranking, neither Augment Code nor Tabnine clears the bar, which asks for all five merge loop capabilities documented in full. Neither documents testing, debugging and optimization in full. 3 of the 96 vendors in the lane clear it. See the coding agent ranking
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Augment Code and Tabnine are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 1,084 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Augment Code if
- Your code can go to a vendor cloud, and coordinated agent teams matter more than air gapped deployment.
- Multi agent lifecycle coordination is the capability you are buying.
- Shared memory across agent teams is what makes coordination real.
Choose Tabnine if
- Air gapped or on premise deployment is a hard requirement you cannot negotiate.
- Models trained on your private repositories rather than public code is the value.
- Defense, regulated finance or similar is your context.
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
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Augment CodeIntegrations & Tool Calling Cosmos connects GitHub and GitHub Enterprise Server, GitLab cloud and self hosted, Azure DevOps, Jira, Linear, Slack, Microsoft Teams, ClickUp, Datadog and PagerDuty, plus any server from its MCP registry, and Experts and the Auggie CLI call external tools through MCP servers and native tools. Tool permissions allow, deny or delegate each tool call to a webhook or script policy, and a Slack mention of @Augment starts an Expert session that posts back in thread. Sourcedocs.augmentcode.com/cosmos/config-mcp, cosmos/connectors/config-slack and cli/permissionsread 2026-10-28 |
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TabnineIntegrations & Tool Calling The Context Engine ingests code repositories, documentation, ticketing systems, APIs and infrastructure metadata, and serves organizational context to whichever agent the customer uses. Supported agents include Cursor, GitHub Copilot, the Tabnine Agentic Platform and Anthropic Claude Code. The platform itself spans IDE plugins, the terminal and CI/CD. Sourcetabnine.com/enterprise-context-engine and tabnine.com/platformread 2026-08-30 |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
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Augment CodeWorkflow Orchestration Cosmos runs multiple Experts side by side in the cloud, each in its own session. An Expert launches workers as separate parallel sessions and subagents, the docs state that no Expert launches another and that the pull request is the medium Experts hand work through, and a Ticket Dispatcher runs on a schedule and dispatches PR Author for tickets that are safe to attempt. The Project Builder turns a large feature into a design, a ticket breakdown and coordinated implementation, and the Auggie CLI runs subagents in parallel. Sourcedocs.augmentcode.com/cosmos/workers-subagents, cosmos/experts-ticket-dispatcher, cosmos/experts-templates and cli/subagentsread 2026-10-28 |
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TabnineWorkflow Orchestration The Tabnine Agentic Platform ships org native AI agents that plan and execute workflows with enterprise context. They work across the IDE, the terminal, CI/CD pipelines and software delivery workflows, going beyond single turn completion. Tabnine presents this as a move from isolated developer assistance to intelligent software delivery systems that operate across teams, repositories, policies and infrastructure. Sourcetabnine.com/platform and tabnine.com/blogread 2026-08-30 |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
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Augment CodeTriggers & Channel Coverage Cosmos triggers turn events into Expert sessions: GitHub issues, issue comments, pull requests, pushes, check suites and workflow runs, Linear status changes, Slack mentions, GitLab and PagerDuty events, cron schedules and custom webhooks, each filtered with JSONLogic and capped at a runs per minute limit. When a trigger fires, Cosmos opens a session in a sandboxed VM and drops the raw event payload in as the first message, running as a service account identity if configured. The Cloud Agents page says a ticket, pull request or alert can start an agent. Sourcedocs.augmentcode.com/cosmos/config-triggers, cosmos/getting-started and augmentcode.com/product/cloud-agentsread 2026-10-28 |
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TabnineTriggers & Channel Coverage Tabnine CLI runs in GitHub Actions on pull_request events, using Tabnine's workflow to pass the PR number and the head and base commits, and it also runs in GitLab CI and Bitbucket Pipelines. Developers call Tabnine Agent and Chat from IDE plugins and the CLI from the terminal. An optional Headless Agents add-on is sold on the Agentic Platform. Sourcedocs.tabnine.com/main/getting-started/tabnine-cli/git-integrations/github-actions and tabnine.com/pricingread 2026-09-29 |
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
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Augment CodeKnowledge Grounding & RAG The Context Engine is described as a live map of the entire codebase, always current, that semantically indexes code across hundreds of thousands of files and retrieves curated context from dependencies, documentation, recent changes, commit history and issues. It is served to Augment's own agents and to other agents through an MCP server in local or hosted mode and a Context Engine SDK, and the open source Context Connectors index incrementally. Sourceaugmentcode.com/context-engine, docs.augmentcode.com/context-services/mcp/overview and context-services/context-connectors/how-it-worksread 2026-10-28 |
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TabnineKnowledge Grounding & RAG The Enterprise Context Engine builds a structured, continuously updated knowledge graph of the organization. It extracts entities, relationships, dependencies and architectural patterns from code repositories, documentation, tickets, APIs and infrastructure metadata. It goes beyond the similarity based retrieval behind most RAG, modeling repositories, services, APIs, policies and historical engineering knowledge so agents can reason with organizational context. Sourcetabnine.com/enterprise-context-engine and tabnine.com/blog/introducing-the-tabnine-enterprise-context-engineread 2026-08-30 |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
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Augment CodeMemory & State Persistence Experts capture their own memory and store it as readable Markdown in the organization's shared virtual filesystem, scoped per repository, global, channel, project or user, and load it at the start of relevant work. A noisy memory model promotes a learning only once evidence is sufficient. Augment does not say how long Expert memory lasts, when it expires or how to purge it. Sourcedocs.augmentcode.com/cosmos/experts-memory and experts-code-review-memoryread 2026-10-28 |
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TabnineMemory & State Persistence Before any AI file modification, Tabnine CLI saves a checkpoint, a Git snapshot in a shadow repository along with the conversation so far and the pending tool call. Checkpoints are stored locally, so a session can be restored and the call re-proposed. The Enterprise Context Engine's knowledge graph gives agents organizational context to retrieve, but there is no memory layer that the agent writes to across sessions. Sourcedocs.tabnine.com/main/getting-started/tabnine-cli/features/checkpointingread 2026-09-29 |
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
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Augment CodeHuman Oversight & Guardrails In Cosmos an Expert brings back a pull request, a review or a finding for a person to approve, and nothing merges without a human at the checkpoint. PR Author opens a draft that stays unpublished until a person marks it ready, work that needs a specification waits for explicit human approval of the spec, the Risk Analyzer auto approves only low risk changes, and Pair Reviewer and checkpoints sit beside them. The IDE agent pauses before terminal commands and external actions unless Agent Auto mode is on, and CLI tool permissions allow, deny, ask the user or delegate calls to a webhook or script policy. Sourcedocs.augmentcode.com/cosmos/software-factory/ticket-to-pr, augmentcode.com/product/cloud-agents, docs/using-augment/agent and cli/permissionsread 2026-10-28 |
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TabnineHuman Oversight & Guardrails Tool Permissions set each native tool and each MCP server to Ask first or Auto-approve. Tabnine Agent stops for the user's approval before running a command or applying code unless that tool has been auto-approved, and Tabnine recommends requiring approval for sensitive operations. The CLI adds a plan mode and sandboxing, admins govern MCP servers centrally, and a provenance and attribution feature checks generated code against license rules. Sourcedocs.tabnine.com/main/getting-started/tabnine-agent/agent-settings and /administering-tabnine/managing-your-team/settings/mcp-governanceread 2026-09-29 |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
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Augment CodeSecurity, Identity & Governance Augment holds SOC 2 Type II attestation and ISO/IEC 42001 certification, does not train on customer code, and offers customer managed encryption keys. Enterprise adds SSO and OIDC with granular access controls and audit trails, the Cosmos page lists RBAC, and service accounts act as non human identities with their own tokens. SCIM is listed on the Enterprise plan while the Cosmos admin checklist says it will roll out soon. The trust center at trust.augmentcode.com renders only client side. Sourceaugmentcode.com/security, augmentcode.com/pricing, augmentcode.com/product/cosmos and docs.augmentcode.com/cosmos/guides/admin-checklistread 2026-10-28 |
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TabnineSecurity, Identity & Governance Tabnine is compliant with SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 9001:2015 and GDPR, and a pentest report is available through its trust center at trust.tabnine.com. Access controls include identity provider sync with a SCIM API, team management in the admin console, scoped API tokens, MCP server governance and organization audit logs through the API. Code is not retained, and deployment can be SaaS, VPC, on-premises or air-gapped. Sourcetrust.tabnine.com and docs.tabnine.com/main/administering-tabnineread 2026-09-29 |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
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Augment CodeObservability & Auditability Each Cosmos session records every message, agent turn and tool call, is kept without expiry and can be reopened, shared across the organization or restricted. Automations show a Run History tab and an Event Log with the worker tree visible per session, an Analytics API reports usage, and the Cosmos page lists audit logs that feed a SIEM and replayable runs, though the docs' audit logs section is still an empty placeholder. Sourcedocs.augmentcode.com/cosmos/sessions-overview, cosmos/manage-automations, analytics/overview and augmentcode.com/product/cosmosread 2026-10-28 |
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TabnineObservability & Auditability Tabnine CLI has built-in OpenTelemetry, off by default, that sends structured traces, metrics and logs to the customer's own OTLP collector or a local file once enabled. These cover tool call durations, token usage and, optionally, the full conversation. The Tabnine API exposes organization audit log events, and the Admin Console adds agent usage analytics, code acceptance logs and Context Engine run monitoring. Sourcedocs.tabnine.com/main/getting-started/tabnine-cli/features/telemetry and /administering-tabnine/managing-your-team/tabnine-apisread 2026-09-29 |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
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Augment CodeDeployment & Data Residency Cosmos sessions run in Augment hosted sandboxed VMs by default, or on a team's own machines through self hosted daemons. A self hosted Kubernetes option is in early access behind a feature flag and needs outbound access, EU tenants can set EU only inference, and Enterprise lists data residency options and multi region compute. The Cosmos product page names VPC, single tenant and on premises options, but the docs name no region list. Sourcedocs.augmentcode.com/cosmos/environments/daemons, cosmos/guides/self-hosted-k8s, augmentcode.com/product/cosmos and augmentcode.com/pricingread 2026-10-28 |
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TabnineDeployment & Data Residency Deployment options are secure SaaS, a private VPC, on premises or fully air gapped environments. Total code privacy and zero data retention apply, and a trust center at trust.tabnine.com carries the details. Tabnine names deployment flexibility as its core differentiator for regulated industries. Sourcetabnine.com/code-privacy and tabnine.comread 2026-08-30 |
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
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Augment CodePrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Augment ships fourteen Template Experts, including PR Author, PR Fixer, Deep Reviewer, Pair Reviewer, Risk Analyzer, Verifier, Incident Investigator, Feedback Triager, Project Builder, Ticket Manager, Ticket Dispatcher and Data Analyst. Skills are defined at organization, user and project scope, and custom slash commands and published examples add reusable workflows. There is no marketplace. Sourcedocs.augmentcode.com/cosmos/experts-templates, cosmos/config-skills and cli/custom-commands-examplesread 2026-10-28 |
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TabninePrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs The platform ships org native AI agents and an AI chat that cover the whole software development lifecycle, and agents take their behavior from enterprise context, not from templates the customer writes. There is no library of prebuilt agents, installable packs or shareable templates. Sourcetabnine.com/platform and tabnine.com/ai-chatread 2026-08-30 |
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
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Augment CodeModel Flexibility & Routing The user chooses among models from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI, DeepSeek, Zhipu and Moonshot AI, with Prism routing as an option. In Cosmos the choice is made per Expert or per session, and in the Auggie CLI with /model or --model. Bring your own key is available to customers with enterprise agreements. Sourcedocs.augmentcode.com/models/available-models, cosmos/guides/admin-checklist and augmentcode.com/product/cosmosread 2026-10-28 |
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TabnineModel Flexibility & Routing Agent and Chat users pick their model from several makers, including Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini, Mistral's Devstral, MiniMax, Zhipu's GLM and Alibaba's Qwen, as well as Tabnine's own protected models. Model selection is also available in the CLI. Administrators can connect their own LLM endpoints as Self-Managed Models. Sourcedocs.tabnine.com/main/welcome/readme/ai-models, /getting-started/tabnine-cli/features/model-selection and /administering-tabnine/managing-your-team/settings/models-settings/self-managed-modelsread 2026-09-29 |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
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Augment CodeAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility The Auggie SDK in TypeScript and Python builds custom integrations and agents on Auggie with typed and streaming output and custom tools, the CLI runs headless with --print and auggie cloud manages Cosmos Experts, environments and sessions with service account tokens and JSON output. The Context Engine ships an SDK with an API reference and its own MCP server, codebase-retrieval, in local stdio or hosted HTTP mode. Sourcedocs.augmentcode.com/cli/sdk, context-services/sdk/api-reference and context-services/mcp/overviewread 2026-10-28 |
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TabnineAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility A consolidated Tabnine API with an OpenAPI specification, scoped tokens and versioned endpoints lets customers query usage, retrieve audit data and automate administration, and a SCIM API syncs identities. The CLI runs headless in GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and Bitbucket Pipelines, supports extensions and hooks, and uses MCP servers under admin governance. Sourcedocs.tabnine.com/main/administering-tabnine/managing-your-team/tabnine-apis and /getting-started/tabnine-cli/git-integrationsread 2026-09-29 |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
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Augment CodeTesting, Debugging & Optimization A Verifier Expert runs an end to end verification pass against a running environment and reports evidence backed findings, and Cosmos offers replayable runs. Both check the customer's code and the agent's output, and Augment offers no harness to evaluate or regression test agent behavior itself. Sourcedocs.augmentcode.com/cosmos/experts-verifier and augmentcode.com/product/cosmosread 2026-10-28 |
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TabnineTesting, Debugging & Optimization Agents can generate unit tests, debug code and refactor the customer's code, and Tabnine publishes thought leadership on measuring AI productivity. There is no customer facing harness for testing, evaluating or regression checking agent behavior. Sourcetabnine.com/platform and tabnine.com/blogread 2026-08-30 |
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
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Augment CodeBrowser & Computer Use Experts and the CLI work through the IDE, terminal, repositories, sandboxed VMs, CI and MCP connected tools. No first party page describes the agent driving a browser or operating software through a graphical interface; the MCP page names browser automation only as a category of server a customer can add. Sourceaugmentcode.com/product/cloud-agents, augmentcode.com/product/cosmos and docs.augmentcode.com/cosmos/config-mcpread 2026-10-28 |
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TabnineBrowser & Computer Use Agents work in IDEs, the terminal and CI/CD pipelines through programmatic interfaces. Browser control and operation of software without a programmatic interface are not described. Sourcetabnine.com/platformread 2026-08-30 |
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Pricing snapshot
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
From $20 per month flat (Standard, up to 50 seats, $20 of usage included) | Contact sales. Since the July 2026 Tricentis acquisition, the Tabnine pricing page redirects to a Tricentis sales contact page and no price list is published. |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, partial | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
A flat monthly team plan with a dollar amount of usage included, plus metered LLM and compute usage beyond it. | Per seat, sold through sales. When Tabnine supplies the LLM access, a reserved token consumption quota has been added on top. |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
High variable cost | Low variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Mixed | Sales call |
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Pricing verified When this pricing was last checked |
Product updates
Newest first, each linked to its source.
Augment Code
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· Funding / partnership
Augment Code agreed to sell Cosmos, the Auggie CLI, the Code Context Engine and related technology to Harness, and the team behind those products is moving to Harness to keep developing them.
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· Observability / auditability
Augment Code released Cosmos Week 30, introducing session forking to branch conversations from completed turns and cost analytics with detailed charts for enterprise organizations.
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· Workflow orchestration
Augment Code released Auggie CLI 0.33.0, introducing cloud triggers to enable or disable persistent workflow triggers and a worker sessions view to display child worker processes.
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Tabnine
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· Agent capability
Tabnine 6.7.0 opens the new Tabnine Agent to every team with Agent access, and IDE users can switch to it from the introductory screen.
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· Security / enterprise
Tabnine added a new logging feature that records comprehensive details of AI-generated code accepted through its Agent and CLI.
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· Funding / partnership
Tabnine was acquired by Tricentis, an enterprise software testing and quality engineering company.
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