Aider-AI/aider
aider is AI pair programming in your terminal
49.5k stars · 5.1k forks · Python
At risk
At risk: one person wrote most commits, and no one has committed by hand in 90 days.
Why
- One person wrote 82% of human commits in the last year, and no human has committed in the last 90 days. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A human commit in the last 90 days, or a second person taking a large share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteSlowing
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 0
- Human commits, 365 days
- 108
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- May 22, 2026 (4 months ago)
- Last human commit
- May 22, 2026 (4 months ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 0
- Last release
- Aug 9, 2025 (1 year ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 2 hours
Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 108 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 172
Top committers
- paul-gauthier: 82% of commits
- claui: 4% of commits
- codeofdusk: 4% of commits
- chr15m: 3% of commits
- Cyberfilo: 2% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Jun 21, 2023 to Jun 22, 2023: about 115 more stars than usual, peak 75 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jul 2, 2023 to Jul 18, 2023: about 1.7k more stars than usual, peak 267 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Nov 6, 2023 to Nov 14, 2023: about 400 more stars than usual, peak 156 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 10, 2024 to Apr 18, 2024: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 469 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Jun 5, 2024 to Jun 14, 2024: about 929 more stars than usual, peak 204 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 17, 2024 to Jun 21, 2024: about 194 more stars than usual, peak 96 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 30, 2024 to Jul 31, 2024: about 253 more stars than usual, peak 247 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 30, 2024 to Dec 30, 2024: about 81 more stars than usual, peak 121 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 28, 2025 to Jan 29, 2025: about 118 more stars than usual, peak 136 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 3, 2026 to Mar 5, 2026: about 313 more stars than usual, peak 196 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 4 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
- Warning: OSV, via deps.dev, lists GHSA-7w7m-v5vp-w699, GHSA-hchg-qm84-cj9p, PYSEC-2026-2335, PYSEC-2026-2336 at MODERATE, LOW or unrated severity on the latest version of aider-chat. Details
License
- Now
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
- aider-chat (PYPI): latest 0.86.2, published Feb 12, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: GHSA-7w7m-v5vp-w699 (low), GHSA-hchg-qm84-cj9p (low), PYSEC-2026-2335 (moderate), PYSEC-2026-2336 (moderate)
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
Sources: GitHub: Aider-AI/aider, deps.dev: PyPI aider-chat, OSV: GHSA-7w7m-v5vp-w699, OSV: GHSA-hchg-qm84-cj9p, OSV: PYSEC-2026-2335, OSV: PYSEC-2026-2336
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[](https://reporadar.ai/Aider-AI/aider)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: At risk
- Oct 13, 2026: At risk
- Oct 13, 2026: At risk
Computed 16 hours ago · method 2026.10.2