Aider · Aider-AI (Paul Gauthier)
The original terminal AI pair programmer (since 2023): git-native supervised editing with auto-commits per change, a tree-sitter repo map, architect/editor model pairing, and watch-mode AI comments — still largely a one-maintainer community project with releases roughly every two weeks.
Identity
| Homepage | https://aider.chat |
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| Repository | https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider |
| License | open-source |
| Domain | coding |
| Form factor | cli |
Model support
| Model-agnostic | ✓ yes |
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| Native models | — |
| Local models | ✓ yes |
| Pricing | byok |
Extensibility
| MCP client | ? unknown |
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| Agent Skills support | ? unknown |
| Plugins / hooks | ✓ yes |
Execution & safety
| Sandboxing | none |
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| Autonomy spectrum | supervised → semi-autonomous |
| Subagents | ○ no |
| Parallel sessions | ? unknown |
| Context management | codebase-indexing |
Integration & evidence
| Headless / API | ✓ yes |
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| GitHub integration | ○ no |
| Sources |
✓ profile last verified 2026-07-08 · benchmark figures are vendor-reported unless a source states otherwise