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.

Use it to start an AIDE feature workflow, develop a specification, research options, create a plan, build the change, and run quality checks.

It gives a feature request a repeatable path from an initial idea to checked implementation instead of handling every stage informally.

How aidemd-mcp/server configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to aidemd-mcp/server. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aidemd-mcp/server/main/.claude/skills/aide/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aidemd-mcp/server

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 230 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 14,296 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00230	$0.14296
Opus 5.5	$0.00092	$0.05718
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00046	$0.02859
Haiku 4.5	$0.00023	$0.01430

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7fc2acbabfa1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2d 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 · 611 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 611 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 five brain.status values. Branch on them exactly:

ok — continue to Step 3.
no-brain-aide — the brain.aide config file is missing (.aide/config/brain.aide does not exist). 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")
```
After the skill returns, halt — the skill itself scaffolds brain.aide, handles the sync, and asks the user to restart.
brain-aide-invalid — the brain.aide config file is present but falls short of the required-section contract. brain.fault says how. STOP boot. Do NOT read docs. Do NOT call aide_discover. Tell the user in one line what is wrong:
- fault.kind === "missing-sections" → name the sections from fault.sections, e.g.:

Read the full file on GitHub · 611 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.

2d ago Changed 7fc2acbabfa1
3d ago Changed · +13 lines 86fe8b9be070
4d ago Changed · +43 lines · +7 tokens per session 2ee9aa6e73d1
19d ago Changed · -4 lines 065debf03ea9
20d ago Changed · +58 lines · +15 tokens per session 1ac20d1e8840
2mo 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 (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 230 tokens to every session and 14,296 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Building agents Claude Code Planning ai-coding cursor developer-tools mcp-server windsurf

server: Skill for Claude Code

Borrowing it

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What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

How it starts

/aide — Orchestrator

MANDATORY BOOT SEQUENCE

Step 1 — Call `aide_info`

Step 2 — Brain status (hard gate)

What this file has done since we first saw it

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server: Skill for Claude Code

Borrowing it

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

How it starts

/aide — Orchestrator

MANDATORY BOOT SEQUENCE

Step 1 — Call aide_info

Step 2 — Brain status (hard gate)

What this file has done since we first saw it

Other skills, from other repositories

memorix-memory

memorix

memorix-mini-skills

memorix-orchestrate

memorix-troubleshooting

memorix-git-memory

Step 1 — Call `aide_info`