aider — security grade SAFE, quality 58/100

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 58/100

No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

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About aider

AI Pair Programming in Your Terminal Aider lets you pair program with LLMs to start a new project or build on your existing codebase. <img alt="OpenRouter Ranking" title="Aider's ranking among applications on the OpenRouter platform" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/🏆%20OpenRouter-Top%2020-9b59b6?style=flat-square&labelColor=555

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Quick Facts

Stars49,036
Forks4,972
LanguagePython
CategoryAgent Tool
LicenseApache-2.0
Quality Score57.879943075096/100
Open Issues1876
Last Updated2026-05-22
Created2023-05-09
Platformsclaude-code, cli, gemini, python
Est. Tokens~9098k

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is aider?

aider is aider is AI pair programming in your terminal. It is categorized as a Agent Tool with 49.0k GitHub stars.

What programming language is aider written in?

aider is primarily written in Python. It covers topics such as anthropic, chatgpt, claude-3.

How do I install or use aider?

You can find installation instructions and usage details in the aider GitHub repository at github.com/Aider-AI/aider. The project has 49.0k stars and 4972 forks, indicating an active community.

What license does aider use?

aider is released under the Apache-2.0 license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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