Discontinued, verified 2026-10-02
Aide (CodeStory) is no longer maintained: the
codestoryai/aideREADME says “This project is no longer maintained” and links to an announcement dated 2025-02-18 (x.com/aide_dev); the GitHub repository is archived (last push 2025-02-25) under AGPL-3.0. aide.dev still resolves but now presents “AI-native developer tools”. No successor is named by the project. Kept as history; see ai-coding-assistants for current IDE tools.
Aide - Your AI Programming Assistant
A proactive agent
- Aide proactively proposes fixes or asks to include files that may be missing in the context
- iterating on linter errors and pulling in relevant context using LSP tools, like “Go to references”.
- slim, VS Code-native checkpoints (not git) to easily roll back to previous states, in case the agent made any mistake.
- Brainstorm, then edit. Or the other way around.
- pair-program : Chat about a problem by @’ting the file(s) and then jump into edits, or go from a smaller set of edits and discuss their side-effects.
- binary called sidecar which takes care of preparing and sending prompts to LLMs, as well as giving them access to editor features.
- Enforced and exposed deep reasoning behind complex changes. Break down large tasks into smaller units of work that follow a logical flow.
- The editor listens to all events and changes made by both the developer and AI to keep a continuous context.
Sources
- https://github.com/codestoryai/aide (README and GitHub API: archived, AGPL-3.0; accessed 2026-10-02)
- https://aide.dev (accessed 2026-10-02)