aide

aide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aidemd-mcp/server. It costs 208 tokens per session (9,715 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An orchestrator for a staged software-development process, from discussing requirements through research, planning, implementation, testing, and fixes. It delegates each stage to specialized agents and passes their work between stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start an AIDE feature workflow, develop a specification, research options, create a plan, build the change, and run quality checks.
Why use it?
It gives a feature request a repeatable path from an initial idea to checked implementation instead of handling every stage informally.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aidemd-mcp/server/aide
Any agent
npx skills add aidemd-mcp/server --skill aide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aidemd-mcp/server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 208 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,715 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00208 $0.09715
Opus 5 $0.00104 $0.04858
Sonnet 5 $0.00042 $0.01943
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00971

Measured 3d ago against content hash 9fab6e7e3ad5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aide scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/aide/SKILL.md · 501 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 501 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/aide — Orchestrator

Conversational entry point for the full AIDE pipeline. Gathers context from the user, then drives each phase by delegating to specialized agents — spinning up fresh context for every stage and handing off via files.

This skill is the source of truth for the orchestrator. The /aide slash command (in .claude/commands/aide.md) is a thin signpost that routes to this skill — the prose lives here so the methodology, boot sequence, and constraints surface together with the skill's frontmatter description in the available-skills listing.


MANDATORY BOOT SEQUENCE

STOP. Do not respond to the user's request yet. Do not analyze it. Do not classify it.

Boot fires on EVERY invocation of this skill — no exceptions. It is sequential, not parallel — brain status gates everything else. There is no point loading docs and the intent tree if the brain isn't wired.

Step 1 — Call aide_info

This is your only first call. No Read, no aide_discover, no other tool.

Step 2 — Brain status (hard gate)

The brain is the pipeline's durable memory. If it isn't wired, the pipeline can't run.

aide_info returns one of four brain.status values. Branch on them exactly:

  • ok — continue to Step 3.

  • no-brain-aide — the brain.aide config file is missing. STOP boot. Do NOT read docs. Do NOT call aide_discover. Tell the user in one line, conversational tone — e.g.:

    The brain config file (brain.aide) is missing — let's set that up first.

    Then invoke the config flow:

    Skill(skill="aide:brain", args="config")
    

    The config flow scaffolds brain.aide and syncs it into .mcp.json. After it returns, halt — the user must run npx @aidemd-mcp/server@latest sync and then re-run /aide.

  • no-mcp-entry — the brain backend is not wired into .mcp.json. STOP boot. Do NOT read docs. Do NOT call aide_discover. Tell the user in one line — e.g.:

    The brain isn't wired up yet — let's fix that first.

Read the full file on GitHub · 501 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 501 lines · 208 tokens per session scan A 9fab6e7e3ad5

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aide is a skill published in the GitHub repository aidemd-mcp/server (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 208 tokens to every session and 9,715 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.