What is Aider?
Aider is an open-source AI pair-programming tool for the terminal. When it reads a web page, it requests the page from the developer's own machine and adds Aider and its version to the user agent. The user agent doesn't say which AI model it runs on.
- Operator
- Its user, on their own machine
- Class
- Coding agent fetching docs
- Verification
- User agent onlyAider runs on its user's own machine. DevTune identifies it by user agent, and requests carrying that user agent come from that person's own network, so they usually can't be authenticated.
On your site
When it requests a page itself, often documentation a developer's coding task needs, the request carries its user agent. AI Traffic counts those page requests as answer fetches, and counts coding-agent answer fetches on their own too.
AI Traffic setup
Connect a crawler sensor (Cloudflare pull, edge middleware or a Vercel log drain) to see which pages Aider requests on your site.
Set up AI Traffic