# 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. Use when this capability is needed.

- Skill: `tomevault-io/aider-ai-pair-programming-cli-agent` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add tomevault-io/aider-ai-pair-programming-cli-agent`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/tomevault-io/aider-ai-pair-programming-cli-agent/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: tomevault-io (https://skillmd.com/u/tomevault-io)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/tomevault-io/aider-ai-pair-programming-cli-agent

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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. 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/)

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