AIDA — AI Data Assistant

Status: pre-alpha. AIDA is under active, phased development (see PLAN.md). Nothing here is stable yet; APIs, config formats, and CLI commands will change without notice until Phase 5 (first GUI release).

AIDA is a local scientific agent workbench: a simple, reliable GUI (and CLI) for using AI agents in scientific work — conversation with local or cloud LLMs, correct use of domain MCP servers (pyIrena, bait_mcp, ...), correct display of rich tool results (especially PNG plots), reading and producing documents, and controlled access to the user's data folders.

It is built for pyIrena and USAXS-instrument users and is deliberately not a general-purpose AI platform — see PLAN.md §1 for the full rationale.

Install (development)

git clone https://github.com/jilavsky/aida.git
cd aida
conda env create -f environment.yml   # or: pip install -e ".[dev]"
conda activate aida
aida doctor

Status

Following the phased plan in PLAN.md; per-phase checklists live under planning/. Phase 1 (this scaffold) delivers packaging, configuration, logging, and CI — no agent functionality yet.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.