⚠️ BETA WARNING: Aider Advanced is currently in beta. Features may change, break, or be removed without notice. Use at your own risk in production environments.
This project is a fork of aider.chat, an AI pair programming tool that lets you collaborate with an LLM to edit code in your local Git repository.
⭐ If you find this tool useful, please consider starring the repository on GitHub! ⭐
This enhanced fork includes all the original aider functionality plus these new commands:
/focus: Helps you concentrate on specific parts of your codebase during a session by automatically removing files that the LLM determines are not relevant to the focused file, streamlining your workflow/document: Similar to the/codecommand but instructs the LLM to specifically focus on documentation tasks rather than code changes/prioritize: Analyzes all open issues in your repository and determines which one is most important to tackle next/advise: Creates an advisor persona based on your question and gives advice from that perspective (e.g.,/advise Tell me what legal would think of this code)/plan: Helps you create a structured plan for implementing features or changes without making immediate code modifications
You can install Aider Advanced directly from GitHub:
pip install git+https://github.com/qemqemqem/aider-advanced.gitOr clone the repository and install locally:
git clone https://github.com/qemqemqem/aider-advanced.git
cd aider-advanced
pip install -e .After installation, you can run the tool using either:
aider-advanced- Python 3.8 or higher
- Git
- An API key for your preferred LLM provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)
See the original documentation at aider.chat for basic usage instructions.
The /focus command allows you to direct the AI's attention to specific files or code sections:
/focus path/to/file.py
The /document command helps you generate or improve documentation. You can use it like this:
/document add docstrings to all functions in utils.py
The /document command instructs aider to focus exclusively on documentation changes - it will update comments, docstrings, and documentation files without modifying actual code functionality. This is particularly useful when you want to improve code documentation without risking changes to the underlying implementation.
When /document is run with no message, aider will enter document mode, which is just like /code mode but with a focus on documentation tasks.
The /advise command creates an advisor persona based on your question and provides advice from that perspective:
/advise Tell me what legal would think of this code
This command will either use an existing persona file or create a new one appropriate to your question, then generate advice from that perspective. It's useful for getting specialized feedback on your code from different viewpoints. For example, in the above command, the command will create a "legal" persona and provide advice on the code pretending to be that character.
The /plan command helps you create a structured plan for implementing features or changes:
/plan Create a plan to implement the foo function
This command focuses on planning rather than immediate code changes. When run without arguments, it switches to plan mode.
When run, it will create issues and bugs in the issues/ and bugs/ directories of your repository, respectively. These will be markdown files with YAML frontmatter containing metadata about the task, such as priority, story points, and related issues.
The /prioritize command analyzes all open issues in your repository and helps you decide which one to work on next:
/prioritize
This command will scan your repository for issue files (typically markdown files in an issues directory), analyze their content, priority markers, dependencies, and other metadata, then recommend the most important issue to tackle next.
It's intended to be used after the /plan command, to sort through the tasks you've identified and determine which one should be prioritized first. If you accept its suggestion, it will automatically execute the /focus command on the chosen issue.
This enhanced fork was developed by Andrew Keenan Richardson, building upon the excellent foundation of the original aider project. I suppose a great deal of credit goes to aider itself (and Claude), who have contributed a majority of the commits to this codebase.
Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.