aider

https://aider.chat/

Tool that use an approach between coding with an agent in an IDE and the full Agentic coding (like claude code).

Good

Bad

• Must manually add all the files so that aider has those in its context.
  • More control, but more friction to use the tool.
• MCP not supported yet.
  • Related issue: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/pull/3937

References

• Script to generate aider convention by aider for aider.