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  • License — License: Apache-2.0
  • Description — Repository has a description
  • Active repo — Last push 15 days ago
  • Community trust — 42649 GitHub stars
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  • Code scan — Scanned 12 files during light audit, no dangerous patterns found
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Purpose
This tool acts as an AI pair programming assistant directly in your terminal. It connects with various large language models (LLMs) to help you create new projects or modify existing codebases, tracking all changes via Git integration.

Security Assessment
Overall Risk: Medium. By design, this application makes external network requests to cloud-based LLM APIs (such as OpenAI and Anthropic) to process your code. Because the primary function is AI-assisted coding, it inherently accesses and transmits your source code to these third-party providers. The light automated audit scanned 12 files and found no hardcoded secrets or dangerous execution patterns. However, because terminal-based AI tools typically rely on shell execution to run tests or apply code changes, users should be aware that executing AI-generated commands carries inherent system risks.

Quality Assessment
This is a highly trusted and exceptionally well-maintained open-source project. It boasts over 42,000 GitHub stars, millions of PyPI installations, and massive weekly token processing, indicating widespread community adoption and reliability. The repository is actively maintained, with the most recent code push occurring just 14 days ago. Furthermore, the project is protected by the permissive Apache-2.0 license, making it completely safe for commercial and personal use.

Verdict
Safe to use, provided you accept the inherent risks of sharing your local codebase with third-party AI providers.
SUMMARY

aider is AI pair programming in your terminal

README.md

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AI Pair Programming in Your Terminal

Aider lets you pair program with LLMs to start a new project or build on your existing codebase.

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Features

Cloud and local LLMs


Aider works best with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, DeepSeek R1 & Chat V3, OpenAI o1, o3-mini & GPT-4o, but can connect to almost any LLM, including local models.


Maps your codebase


Aider makes a map of your entire codebase, which helps it work well in larger projects.


100+ code languages


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


Git integration


Aider automatically commits changes with sensible commit messages. Use familiar git tools to easily diff, manage and undo AI changes.


Use in your IDE


Use aider from within your favorite IDE or editor. Ask for changes by adding comments to your code and aider will get to work.


Images & web pages


Add images and web pages to the chat to provide visual context, screenshots, reference docs, etc.


Voice-to-code


Speak with aider about your code! Request new features, test cases or bug fixes using your voice and let aider implement the changes.


Linting & testing


Automatically lint and test your code every time aider makes changes. Aider can fix problems detected by your linters and test suites.


Copy/paste to web chat


Work with any LLM via its web chat interface. Aider streamlines copy/pasting code context and edits back and forth with a browser.

Getting Started

python -m pip install aider-install
aider-install

# Change directory into your codebase
cd /to/your/project

# DeepSeek
aider --model deepseek --api-key deepseek=<key>

# Claude 3.7 Sonnet
aider --model sonnet --api-key anthropic=<key>

# o3-mini
aider --model o3-mini --api-key openai=<key>

See the installation instructions and usage documentation for more details.

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