Aider vs Mistral Vibe CLI

Aider

Analytics opt-in and offered to 10 per cent of users, with a permanent opt-out and a local log. No release since 0.86.2 on 12 February 2026 and no commit since 22 May 2026.

Mistral Vibe CLI

Apache-2.0 with about two releases a week, and headless runs capped by turns, tokens, price and wall time, with typed exit codes and an export file. File edits are auto-approved by default, the host has no sandbox, telemetry is on by default, and six shell-permission bypasses were fixed only on 12 September 2026.

Aider

1. Read .aider.conf.yml in any cloned repository before starting aider. Its test-cmd and lint-cmd run without asking
2. Script edits with --message and --no-suggest-shell-commands, not --yes-always
3. Use Python 3.12 or earlier for the PyPI release
4. Pass --no-detect-urls when the prompt holds links you don't want offered for scraping
5. Check git log after a run. Each edit is its own commit

Mistral Vibe CLI

1. Pass --agent on every -p run (plan is read-only). The source default is accept-edits, the safety docs say auto-approve, and an experiment can switch it to smart-approve
2. Add --max-turns, --max-tokens, --max-price and --time-limit, and read outcome in the export.json that --output-dir writes. Exit 3 means a limit or a refusal
3. Run in a container or behind --agent-socket before using --auto-approve. Vibe has no sandbox of its own on the host
4. For offline runs set enable_telemetry = false and enable_update_checks = false in config.toml. The docs' enable_auto_update isn't the key the code reads
5. Use 2.25.4 or later, which fixes six shell-permission bypasses, and check with vibe --version