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. It features deep git integration, repo-wide code mapping, and support for 100+ programming languages.
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name: "Aider AI Pair Programming CLI Agent"
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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. It features deep git integration, repo-wide code mapping, and support for 100+ programming languages."
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source: "https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider"
category: "Developer Tools"
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github_repo: "Aider-AI/aider"
github_stars: 42670
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# 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. 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
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