Priority: P3 · Method: CLI (engine)
Aider: still 188,002 PyPI downloads/week and 48,061 stars, but upstream is stalled — no release in roughly a year (last push 2026-05-22). Big installed base, decaying. Priced accordingly: P3, community-only.
The integration surface. The friendliest on the board: .aider.chat.history.md (markdown) plus .aider.input.history, in the repo root. No SQLite, no JSONL — if you want to learn the engine pattern on an easy target, this is it.
The job. cli/src/engines/README.md; Muse (b6c58e6) and Amp (f15924f) are single-commit references.
Priority: P3 · Method: CLI (engine)
Aider: still 188,002 PyPI downloads/week and 48,061 stars, but upstream is stalled — no release in roughly a year (last push 2026-05-22). Big installed base, decaying. Priced accordingly: P3, community-only.
The integration surface. The friendliest on the board:
.aider.chat.history.md(markdown) plus.aider.input.history, in the repo root. No SQLite, no JSONL — if you want to learn the engine pattern on an easy target, this is it.The job.
cli/src/engines/README.md; Muse (b6c58e6) and Amp (f15924f) are single-commit references.