aide

AIDE - AI Development Environment

Persistent memory, code intelligence, and multi-agent orchestration for AI coding assistants. Works with Claude Code, OpenCode, and Codex CLI.

Prerequisite: Bun — the only runtime dependency. The Go binary downloads automatically.

Install

Claude Code:

claude plugin marketplace add jmylchreest/aide
claude plugin install aide@aide

OpenCode:

bunx @jmylchreest/aide-plugin install

Codex CLI:

codex plugin marketplace add jmylchreest/aide
codex plugin add aide@aide
bunx @jmylchreest/aide-plugin install --platform codex   # hooks only — Codex has no plugin hook support

The Codex plugin provides the MCP server and skills (invoke with $<name> or /skills); the install step adds lifecycle hooks. On older Codex versions without plugin support, the install step alone configures everything.

The Go binary downloads automatically on first run. Skills become available immediately.

What You Get

Capability	What it does
Memory	Remembers preferences and context across sessions
Decisions	Records architectural choices, enforces them in every session
Blueprints	Seeds best-practice decisions for Go, Rust, GitHub Actions, and more
Code Index	Fast symbol search, call graphs, and references via tree-sitter
Static Analysis	Detects complexity, coupling, secrets, and code duplication
Survey	Maps codebase structure: modules, entry points, tech stack, churn hotspots
Skills	23 built-in workflows triggered by natural language
Swarm	Parallel agents with full SDLC pipelines (design, test, implement, verify, docs)
34 MCP Tools	Full programmatic access to all capabilities above

Get Started

Existing project — understand the codebase:

Survey this codebase and help me understand its structure.

AIDE indexes symbols, discovers modules, tech stack, entry points, and git churn hotspots, then presents the big picture. Full guide

New project — set up guardrails:

Bootstrap with curated best practices, then customise:

aide blueprint import go go-github-actions    # seeds decisions from blueprints
aide blueprint import --detect               # or auto-detect from project markers

Then refine with the decide skill for project-specific choices:

Help me decide on the auth strategy and database schema for this project.

Blueprints cover language idioms, tooling, CI/CD, and common pitfalls. The decide skill handles project-specific architectural choices. Both persist across every future session. Full guide

Share decisions with your team:

Export decisions and memories to git-friendly markdown, then commit them:

aide share export      # writes to .aide/shared/
git add .aide/shared && git commit -m "share: team decisions"

Teammates who add AIDE_SHARE_AUTO_IMPORT=1 to .claude/settings.json get them imported automatically at session start. Decisions are append-only per topic (new ones supersede, history kept); memories merge by ULID (newer edits win).

Teammates without AIDE can still use the folder. Each .aide/shared/decisions/*.md and .aide/shared/memories/*.md is self-contained markdown with structured frontmatter — any AI assistant can ingest them as context. A short DECISIONS.md / MEMORIES.md explainer is written alongside the exports to document the format. Full guide

Skills

Skills are markdown workflows triggered by keywords. Type naturally — trigger matching is fuzzy.