Lifecycle, licence, release, pricing and hosting changes to Aider (harness) in the AI Agent Infrastructure Landscape. https://mrpeppersdev.github.io/agent-infrastructure-landscape/feeds/aider-harness--aider-chat.xml 2026-10-26T00:00:00Z AI Agent Infrastructure Landscape https://mrpeppersdev.github.io/agent-infrastructure-landscape/systems/aider-harness--aider-chat#2026-10-26-80cd27834a 2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Latest release: “aider 0.x rolling (2025-2026)” → “v0.86.2 (2026-02-12)”. Deployment: “Self-host (pip install aider-chat)” → “Self-hosted only — local CLI (pip install aider-chat); BYO LLM provider”. MCP support: “depth-floor — Aider primarily uses its own tool-call format; MCP support tracked in issues” → “no — no MCP client/server in Aider README or docs”. Source change: https://github.com/MrPeppersDev/agent-infrastructure-landscape/pull/258