Aide

Aide is an AI software engineering assistant that provides conversational code generation, analysis, and refactoring directly within your IDE or through a local web interface. Built to act as a full-stack collaborator, it understands multi-file projects, detects dependency relationships, and can generate consistent updates across files and frameworks. It supports multiple backends—including OpenAI, Anthropic, and open-source models—and can route requests based on task type or latency requirements. Aide stores context efficiently, caching embeddings of codebases to accelerate reasoning and maintain memory across sessions. Developers can query Aide for explanations, generate docstrings, fix bugs, or scaffold full modules, all while preserving project structure. With a modular architecture, Aide can run locally for privacy-sensitive work or connect to managed servers for collaborative environments.