AI pair programming for your terminal
Aider helps you edit code from the terminal with an AI model connected to your codebase. It runs locally in your repo and can work with models from providers like xAI using an API key.
Agenticness = how independently a tool can take action, scored across 9 dimensions. Scored independently by David Kooi, Skylark Creations — see full rubric → Last re-evaluated 31 July 2026.
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- Score changeAgenticness score 5 → 7 ↑5 → 7/36(+2)
- Score changeAgenticness score 7 → 5 ↓7 → 5/36(-2)
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Aider is a terminal-based AI coding assistant for developers who want to work with an AI pair programmer directly in their codebase. The documentation positions it as “AI pair programming in your terminal,” and it is aimed at people editing, reviewing, and iterating on software projects.
Aider looks more like a coding copilot than a fully autonomous agent. The crawled docs clearly show it taking action on code in your repo and watching files for changes, but they do not show it independently completing broader software tasks without user direction.
Executes tasks you assign, one step at a time, within narrow domains.
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