aider-ce 0.88.20

Aider is AI pair programming in your terminal

Project Roadmap/Goals

The current priorities are to improve core capabilities and user experience of the Aider project

1. Base Asynchronicity (aider-ce coroutine-experiment branch)

• Refactor codebase to have the main loop run asynchronously
• Update test harness to work with new asynchronous methods

2. Repo Map Accuracy - Discussion

• Bias page ranking toward active/editable files in repo map parsing
• Include import information in repo map for richer context
• Handle non-unique symbols that break down in large codebases

3. Context Discovery - Discussion

• Develop AST-based search capabilities
• Enhance file search with ripgrep integration
• Implement RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) for better code retrieval
• Build an explicit workflow and local tooling for internal discovery mechanisms

4. Context Delivery - Discussion

• Use workflow for internal discovery to better target file snippets needed for specific tasks
• Add support for partial files and code snippets in model completion messages

5. TUI Experience - Discussion

• Add a full TUI (probably using textual) to have a visual interface competitive with the other coding agent terminal programs
• Re-integrate pretty output formatting
• Implement a response area, a prompt area with current auto completion capabilities, and a helper area for management utility commands

6. Agent Mode - Discussion

• Renaming "navigator mode" to "agent mode" for simplicity
• Add an explicit "finished" internal tool
• Add a configuration json setting for agent mode to specify allowed local tools to use, tool call limits, etc.
• Add a RAG tool for the model to ask questions about the codebase
• Make the system prompts more aggressive about removing unneeded files/content from the context
• Add a plugin-like system for allowing agent mode to use user-defined tools in simple python files
• Add a dynamic tool discovery tool to allow the system to have only the tools it needs in context

Documentation and Other Notes

• Agent Mode
• MCP Configuration
• Session Management
• Aider Original Documentation (still mostly applies)
• Discord Community

Installation Instructions

This project can be installed using several methods:

Package Installation

pip install aider-ce

or

uv pip install aider-ce

The package exports an aider-ce command that accepts all of Aider's configuration options

Tool Installation

uv tool install --python python3.12 aider-ce

Use the tool installation so aider doesn't interfere with your development environment

Merged PRs

• MCP: #3937
  • MCP Multi Tool Response
• Navigator Mode: #3781
  • Navigator Mode Large File Count
  • Fix navigator mode auto commit
• Qwen 3: #4383
• Fuzzy Search: #4366
• Map Cache Location Config: #2911
• Enhanced System Prompts: #3804
• Repo Map File Name Truncation Fix: #4320
• Read Only Stub Files For Context Window Management : #3056

Other Updates

• Added Remote MCP Tool Calls With HTTP Streaming
  • Enforce single tool call at a time
  • Upgraded MCP dep to 1.12.3 for Remote MCP Tool Calls
  • Updated base Python version to 3.12 to better support navigator mode (might consider undoing this, if dependency list supports it)
• Suppress LiteLLM asyncio errors that clutter output
• Updated Docker File Build Process
  • Manually install necessary ubuntu dependencies
• .gitignore updates
• Experimental Context Compaction For Longer Running Generation Tasks
• Edit Before Adding Files and Reflecting
• Fix Deepseek model configurations
• Relax Version Pinning For Easier Distribution
• Remove Confirm Responses from History
• Benchmark Results By Language
• Allow Benchmarks to Use Repo Map For Better Accuracy
• Read File Globbing

All Contributors (Both Aider Main and Aider-CE)