AIDER
- AIDER is an AI pair programming tool in the terminal.
- It uses LLMs to write code and develop production-ready applications.
- AIDER commits to Git with comprehensive commit messages.
- It works with existing large codebases.
- Open source (Apache-2.0), created by Paul Gauthier; repo-map context, architect/editor modes, many LLM providers including local models.
- Reads
AGENTS.md(listed on agents.md among supporting tools).
Status (2026-09-30)
Latest tagged release on GitHub: v0.86.0, 2025-08-09 (GPT-5 and Grok-4 support). The release-history page shows unreleased work on main (Claude 4.5/4.6 aliases, Gemini 3 preview, /ok command), so development continues but no newer release was visible. One secondary source dating 0.86.0 to 2026 is wrong. Maintenance pace is slower than the agentic CLIs (Claude Code, codex, opencode).
Sources
- https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/releases (2026-09-30)
- https://aider.chat/HISTORY.html (2026-09-30)
- https://agents.md (2026-09-30)