AiderDesk

AiderDesk

Transparent, Steerable AI Orchestration for Professional Software Engineers.

Not just a GUI for Aider — a complete orchestration layer. Steer AI behavior, review every change, isolate experiments, and extend everything. Your workflow. Your rules. Your codebase stays intact.

Overview

AiderDesk is an open-source agentic platform that puts you back in the driver's seat of AI-assisted development.

Originally created as a graphical user interface for the powerful Aider CLI (opens in a new tab), it has evolved into a comprehensive orchestration layer — built for seasoned professionals who refuse to trade control for convenience.

Three principles guide everything we build:

Key Features

• Project & Task Management: Manage multiple codebases simultaneously without losing your train of thought. AiderDesk organizes your environment into Projects (repositories) and breaks them down into individual Tasks (features/bugs). Switch between entirely different repositories and isolated workflows instantly from a unified dashboard.
• Git Worktrees: Use isolated Git worktrees to work on multiple tasks simultaneously. Each task gets its own directory where the AI can experiment, refactor, and build without ever touching or breaking your active local branch. When ready, review the diffs and merge the worktree branch back into your main flow through AiderDesk's built-in merge workflow.
• Advanced Task & History Control: Never let your AI get stuck in a bad context loop. Seamlessly duplicate or fork tasks to explore alternative implementation paths safely. Precisely curate the AI's memory by deleting specific messages from the chat history, ensuring the context window remains clean, relevant, and free of hallucinations.
• Smart Context & Memory Engine: Powered by vector embeddings (LanceDB) and intelligent repository mapping, AiderDesk ensures the AI only loads the exact files it needs. Rely on semantic search across your codebase or explicitly pin documentation URLs and code symbols to force the AI's focus.
• Rich Review & Approval Gates: Review every proposed change before it hits your disk. AiderDesk features a rich, compact diff viewer (side-by-side and unified modes) for line-by-line inspection. Configure strict tool approval gates requiring human authorization before the AI can execute shell commands or file operations.