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name: "Aider AI Pair Programming CLI Agent"
slug: "aider-ai-pair-programming-cli-agent"
description: "Aider is an open-source AI pair programming tool that runs in your terminal, letting you collaborate with LLMs to edit code across your entire codebase. With 42k+ GitHub stars and 15 billion tokens processed weekly, it features deep git integration, repo-wide code mapping, and support for 100+ programming languages."
github_stars: 42670
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider"
category: "Developer Tools"
framework: "Custom Agents"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "Aider-AI/aider"
  github_stars: 42670
---

# Aider AI Pair Programming CLI Agent

Aider is an open-source AI pair programming tool that runs in your terminal, letting you collaborate with LLMs to edit code across your entire codebase. With 42k+ GitHub stars and 15 billion tokens processed weekly, it features deep git integration, repo-wide code mapping, and support for 100+ programming languages.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- python -m pip install aider-install

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- Aider works with most popular programming languages: python, javascript, rust, ruby, go, cpp, php, html, css, and dozens more.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- ### [Use in your IDE](https://aider.chat/docs/usage/watch.html)
- <a href="https://aider.chat/docs/usage/watch.html"><img src="https://aider.chat/assets/icons/monitor.svg" width="32" height="32" align="left" valign="middle" style="margin-right:10px"></a>
- ### [Images & web pages](https://aider.chat/docs/usage/images-urls.html)

- Source: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Aider-AI/aider/HEAD/README.md

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/aider-ai-pair-programming-cli-agent/)