Aider
Aider is an open-source, terminal-based AI pair programmer that edits code directly inside a developer's local Git repository. Written in Python and distributed via PyPI under the Apache 2.0 license, Aider is a BYO-LLM tool: the user supplies API keys for hosted models (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, OpenRouter, Mistral, xAI, GROQ, Cohere, GitHub Copilot, Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Vertex AI) or points it at local models running through Ollama, LM Studio, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Distinguishing capabilities include a repository-wide codebase map that lets the model reason about files it has not been shown, multi-file architectural edits with diff-based patching, automatic Git commits with conventional commit messages, a lint/test/repair loop, image and URL context, voice-to-code, and an IDE bridge via `--watch-files` that picks up `AI!` / `AI?` comments written from any editor. Aider supports 100+ programming languages via tree-sitter, publishes a public LLM coding leaderboard (the polyglot benchmark across C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust), and has accumulated 45K+ GitHub stars with 4.5K+ forks. The product surface is a rich CLI (40+ in-chat slash commands across four chat modes: code, architect, ask, help) plus a Python module entrypoint (`python -m aider`); there is no hosted SaaS, no Aider-operated REST API, and no app-level rate-limiting or billing — all model inference is delegated to the user's chosen provider, and any pricing, rate limits, and FinOps surface live with that provider.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Aider the way a machine reads it — 116 machine-readable artifacts across 15 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Aider scores 27.3/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 24/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Aider
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Aider. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 15
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Aider Python Module
Aider exposes a Python module entrypoint (`python -m aider`) and an importable package (`aider.main.main`) so Aider can be embedded in Python scripts, CI workflows, and other ag...
Aider Chat API
Aider Commands That Manage the Chat Session and History.
Aider Editing API
Aider Commands That Drive Code Edits and Diffs.
Aider Files API
Aider Commands That Manage Files in the Chat Session.
Aider Git API
Aider Commands That Wrap Git Operations.
Aider IO API
Aider Commands That Move Data In and Out of the Session.
Aider Launch API
Aider Launch-Time Configuration via Flags, YAML, and Environment Variables.
Aider Map API
Aider Repository-Map Inspection.
Aider Models API
Aider Commands That Switch or Query LLM Models.
Aider Modes API
Aider Chat Modes (Code, Architect, Ask, Help, Context).
Aider Quality API
Aider Commands That Run Linters and Tests.
Aider Session API
Aider Session Lifecycle Commands.
Aider Settings API
Aider Settings, Tokens, and Reasoning Controls.
Aider Voice API
Aider Voice-to-Code Input.
Aider Web API
Aider Commands That Pull in Web Content.
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Open Collections 16
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONAider CLI Chat API
OPEN COLLECTIONAider CLI
OPEN COLLECTIONAider CLI Chat Editing API
OPEN COLLECTIONAider CLI Chat Files API
OPEN COLLECTIONAider CLI Chat Git API
OPEN COLLECTIONAider CLI Chat IO API
OPEN COLLECTIONAider CLI Chat Launch API
OPEN COLLECTIONAider CLI Chat Map API
OPEN COLLECTIONAider CLI Chat Models API
OPEN COLLECTIONAider CLI Chat Modes API
OPEN COLLECTIONAider CLI Chat Quality API
OPEN COLLECTIONAider CLI Chat Session API
OPEN COLLECTIONAider CLI Chat Settings API
OPEN COLLECTIONAider CLI Chat Voice API
OPEN COLLECTIONAider CLI Chat Web API
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Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Aider Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Aider Cli Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Aider API Rules
SPECTRALAider API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 26
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
AddFilesRequest
JSON SCHEMAAskRequest
JSON SCHEMAAskResponse
JSON SCHEMAChatModeRequest
JSON SCHEMACommitRequest
JSON SCHEMACommitResult
JSON SCHEMADiffResult
JSON SCHEMADropFilesRequest
JSON SCHEMAEditRequest
JSON SCHEMAEditResult
JSON SCHEMAFileListing
JSON SCHEMAFilePathRequest
JSON SCHEMALaunchConfig
JSON SCHEMALintRequest
JSON SCHEMAModelCatalog
JSON SCHEMAModelSelection
JSON SCHEMAReasoningEffortRequest
JSON SCHEMARepositoryMap
JSON SCHEMASettingsSnapshot
JSON SCHEMAShellRequest
JSON SCHEMAShellResult
JSON SCHEMAThinkingTokensRequest
JSON SCHEMATokenUsage
JSON SCHEMAVoiceTranscript
JSON SCHEMAWebFetchRequest
JSON SCHEMAWebFetchResult
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JSON Structure 26
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Aider Cli Add Files Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Ask Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Ask Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Chat Mode Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Commit Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Commit Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Diff Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Drop Files Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Edit Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Edit Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli File Listing Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli File Path Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Launch Config Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Lint Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Model Catalog Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Model Selection Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Reasoning Effort Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Repository Map Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Settings Snapshot Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Shell Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Shell Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Thinking Tokens Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Token Usage Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Voice Transcript Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Web Fetch Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAider Cli Web Fetch Result Structure
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Examples 26
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Aider — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 4
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 10
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 7
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
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Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 5
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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