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Aico — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Open-source, self-hosted, bring-your-own-key alternative to Devin, Replit Agent, Lovable, Bolt.new, Claude Code and Codex.

How to install Aico

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open suhail-akhtar/aico and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Aico does

Open-source, self-hosted, bring-your-own-key alternative to Devin, Replit Agent, Lovable, Bolt.new, Claude Code and Codex. Opens what it builds in a real browser, supervises background work, and runs as an MCP server. No markup, no credits — pay your provider directly, or run local Ollama free.

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README

aico — open-source AI coding agent

An **AI coding agent** for the terminal, a local web portal and a native **VS Code** panel, with a durable session log at its core. Self-hosted and MIT licensed: **bring your own API key** for OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Google Gemini, Moonshot Kimi, Z.AI (GLM) or DeepSeek — or run it entirely offline against a local **Ollama** model.

A self-hosted, open-source alternative to **Claude Code**, **Codex**, **Devin**, **Replit Agent**, **Lovable** and **Bolt.new** — a real coding agent (terminal, web portal, VS Code) plus a template-or-custom-stack app builder in one, for people who want to keep their own key, their own git history and their own code rather than pay a platform's markup on top of the model.

It opens what it builds in a real browser before calling a turn done, keeps one supervised ledger of everything running in the background, speaks **MCP** so another AI can hand it work, turns your corrections into knowledge it keeps, and can measure its own skills against tasks with known answers.

  ✻ aico  (AI Coder)

  Provider: openai
  Model:    gpt-5.6-terra
  Session:  a3f19c
  CWD:      my-project

  Type a message, /help for commands, or exit to quit.

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**Status:** `0.19.1`. Used daily, tested hard, not yet 1.0.

**Website:** — install, providers, the web workspace, [VS Code](https://suhail-akhtar.github.io/aico/vscode.html), background supervision, visuals and Apps.

**How does it compare to Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Aider or Cline — or to Devin, Replit Agent, Lovable and Bolt.new?** [There is an honest page for that](https://suhail-akhtar.github.io/aico/compare.html), including where those are clearly ahead — cost structure, ownership and model choice are where aico differs; hours of real-world use and independent verification are where it does not, yet.

New here? [**GUIDE.md**](GUIDE.md) walks through actually using it — the web client, planning before build