Aider

AI pair programming in your terminal, git-native.

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Open source Self-hostable MCP support Featured free
LicenseApache-2.0
Starting priceBYOK usage cost
Model supportclaude, gpt, gemini, local, byok
Languagespython
GitHub stars46.7k
Last activity2026-05-22
VerifiedThu Jun 25 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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A terminal coding agent that edits files and commits every change to git, with a repo-map for navigating large codebases.

Strengths

  • Every change is a git commit for trivial rollback
  • BYOK with any model, including local

Tradeoffs

  • Terminal-only, no IDE UI
  • Steep for non-CLI users

Knowledge

Curated, novelty-scored insights for Aider, drawn from verified sources. The pipeline ingests video transcripts and extracts only the claims that add new signal.

Aider's repo-map is what lets it scale to large codebases without dumping every file into context.
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Because Aider commits every change, your git history becomes an audit log and rollback is a single command.
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Covers

Context managementBYOK / model choiceGit-native workflow

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