Aider

In this catalog it is the Coding Agents option when you need to edit repositories and ship engineering changes. Keep Aider on the observe/propose side of the loop: useful signals and drafts, with human or policy authority still required before anything irreversible runs.

Aider is a terminal coding agent with tight git hygiene: map repo → propose diffs → commit.

1. Point Aider at a git working tree and model.
2. It maps the codebase and proposes edits.
3. Apply diffs; run tests if configured.
4. Commit with Aider’s commit conventions.

Related: continue · openhands · topics/06-self-coding

• Use when: Aider is a terminal-native coding agent that edits a local git repo in a tight loop: map the codebase, propose diffs, commit with strong git hygiene matches the bottleneck and you specifically need to edit repositories and ship engineering changes.
• Skip when: another pack already covers the need with less ops surface, or Aider would become a second place people retype truth.
• Prefer instead: compare Continue, OpenHands before locking the cell.

• Ops: confirm license, hosting, and release cadence for Aider (Aider-AI/aider) before relying on it in a live corridor.
• Integration: bad credentials, scopes, or schema drift produce empty retrievals or runaway tool/model spend without an obvious UI alarm.
• Scope: Coding Agents components support agents; they are not the company ledger or the approval authority.