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Introduction

AIDE (AI Development Environment) is a plugin that adds multi-agent orchestration, persistent memory, and intelligent workflows to your AI coding assistant. It supports Claude Code and OpenCode through a shared core with platform-specific adapters.

What AIDE does​

  1. Remembers context across sessions with persistent memory and decisions
  2. Orchestrates agents with swarm mode, spawning parallel workers with full SDLC pipelines
  3. Indexes your code using tree-sitter for fast symbol search across your codebase
  4. Analyses code quality with 4 built-in static analysers (complexity, coupling, secrets, clones)
  5. Activates skills by keyword with fuzzy matching -- 20+ built-in workflows for testing, debugging, reviewing, and more

Key features​

  • Persistent memory: Memories and decisions auto-inject at session start and survive across sessions
  • Swarm mode: Spawn N parallel agents, each running a full SDLC pipeline (design, test, implement, verify, docs)
  • Code indexing: Tree-sitter-based symbol search across TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Python, Rust, and more
  • Static analysis: Detect complexity, coupling, hardcoded secrets, and duplicated code without external tools
  • Skills system: Markdown files that inject context when triggered by keywords with fuzzy matching
  • Multi-platform: Works with Claude Code and OpenCode through a shared core

How it works​

# Spawn 3 parallel agents to implement a feature
swarm 3 implement the dashboard

# Store a preference for future sessions
remember that I prefer vitest for testing

# Next session, AIDE auto-injects your preferences
what testing framework should I use?
# => "Based on your preferences, you prefer vitest for testing."

Next steps​

  • Getting Started -- Install AIDE for your platform
  • Features -- Learn about memory, code indexing, and static analysis
  • Skills -- See all 20+ built-in skills