Honest comparison

Plain Aider vs
Aider inside codehere.

Not a rival — codehere runs Aider as one of its five agents. Credit up front: Aider already nails edit history. The room is about what survives after the edit.

01

Where the work lives

Aider alone

Aider is honest about history: it writes .aider.chat.history.md and commits as it edits. What you have is a log in the repo and your terminal scrollback.

Inside codehere

The same Aider runs land in a persistent local room — watch the reasoning and file edits live, reopen the room days later, see every run under the goal in order.

02

One agent vs taking turns

Aider alone

Aider is one (excellent) agent. Want Claude Code to review what Aider built, or Codex to take the next pass? That hand-off lives in your head and your clipboard.

Inside codehere

Five agents take turns on one goal in a shared room — Aider does a pass, you hand the next task to Claude Code or Codex with one click, and each agent reads what the last one did (once the project is initialized).

03

Proof of what happened

Aider alone

Git commits are Aider's audit — genuinely good, and better than most tools. What the agent claimed vs what it did is still yours to reconcile from the log.

Inside codehere

Every tool step recorded, a hash-chained local audit you can verify from the CLI, and a Final Report machine-checked against the git-recorded changes — the claim-vs-reality reconciliation is done for you.

When plain Aider is the better choice

Sometimes the terminal is the right home.

  • You live in the terminal. Aider's REPL flow is fast and famously well-designed — it even ships its own --browser UI. What codehere adds isn't a browser; it's a persistent room shared across five agents and every run. If that's not your itch, skip it.
  • Git-per-edit is already your audit. If Aider's auto-commits give you all the traceability you need, the hash chain is belt-and-suspenders you may not want.
  • One agent is plenty. If you never hand work between agents, the shared room's main trick goes unused.
  • It's early here. codehere is v0.8, invite-only while we onboard the first developers. Aider is mature, free, open source. We'd rather you know that going in.

Keep Aider. Give its work a home.

Local-first, open source, your keys. Invite-only while it's early — request one and we'll set you up.

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