Fork of Aider with agentic capabilities:

• Allows aider to run any shell script without manual confirmation,
  • This works for when aider is in "agent mode" as a background mode.
• Allow aider to run more than max 3 relections per confirmation
  • This also works for background mode.

Basically this allows aider to run fully agentically, like Claude Code in --dangerously-skip-permissions.

The primary use-case is using it with Agro, see case-studies like this and this.

Installing this repo will install a python script agentaider with the exact capabilities as aider except for the behavior listed above.

⚠️ This is a dangerous script: agent-aider may run destructive commands or run up bills on your LLM provider.

Get release version from git: Clone the repo and checkout the tag corresponding to the aider version you want. Available version can be seen on github release page here.

git clone https://github.com/sutt/agent-aider
git checkout v0.85.5  # or whatever version you want that's available

Recommended: uv tool local install

You can use the script in the repo: ./redeploy or, manually:

uv tool uninstall agent-aider
uv tool install . --no-cache

Check install:

$ uv tool list
# agent-aider v0.86.1.dev7+g085542cc
# - agentaider
# aider-chat v0.85.5
# - aider
# agro v0.1.7
# - agro

$ agentaider --version
# agentaider 0.86.1.dev7+g085542cc  # something like this

You'll need to pass along an additional flags for full agentic mode: --yes or -y.

This fork addresses several open tickets on Aider:

• Feature request: "YOLO" mode (#3830)
• Extend aiders --yes option (#1375)
• Running with --yes-always doesn't run shell commands (#3903)
• Add ability to configure max_reflections setting (#3865)

It can help to have a control switch to run aider vs agentaider:

touch ~/.local/bin/maider
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/maider

maider

if ["$1" == "--yolo"]; then
   echo "CAUTION: yolo mode enabled ...using agentaider"
   agentaider \
      --yes \
      "$@"
else
   aider "$@"
fi

Putting that script on shell path, now you can call maider and pass --yolo to it optionally to run agentaider or fall back to regular aider otherwise.