AiderSAFE

Model context protocol server for offloading AI coding work to Aider, enhancing development efficiency and flexibility.

Overview

This server allows Claude Code to offload AI coding tasks to Aider, the best open source AI coding assistant. By delegating certain coding tasks to Aider, we can reduce costs, gain control over our coding model and operate Claude Code in a more orchestrative way to review and revise code.

Setup

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/disler/aider-mcp-server.git

1. Install dependencies:

uv sync

1. Create your environment file:

cp .env.sample .env

1. Configure your API keys in the .env file (or use the mcpServers "env" section) to have the api key needed for the model you want to use in aider:

GEMINI_API_KEY=your_gemini_api_key_here
OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key_here
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_anthropic_api_key_here
...see .env.sample for more

1. Copy and fill out the the .mcp.json into the root of your project and update the --directory to point to this project's root directory and the --current-working-dir to point to the root of your project.

{
"mcpServers": {
"aider-mcp-server": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"",
"run",
"aider-mcp-server",
"--editor-model",
"gpt-4o",
"--current-working-dir",
""
],
"env": {
"GEMINI_API_KEY": "",
"OPENAI_API_KEY": "",
"ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "",
...see .env.sample for more
}
}
}
}

Testing

Tests run with gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25

To run all tests:

uv run pytest

To run specific tests:

# Test listing models
uv run pytest src/aider_mcp_server/tests/atoms/tools/test_aider_lis