Images & URLs

You can add images and URLs to the aider chat.

Images

Aider supports working with image files for many vision-capable models like GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Adding images to a chat can be helpful in many situations:

• Add screenshots of web pages or UIs that you want aider to build or modify.
• Show aider a mockup of a UI you want to build.
• Screenshot an error message that is otherwise hard to copy & paste as text.
• Etc.

You can add images to the chat just like you would add any other file:

• Use /add <image-filename> from within the chat
• Launch aider with image filenames on the command line: aider <image-filename> along with any other command line arguments you need.

URLs

Aider can scrape the text from URLs and add it to the chat. This can be helpful to:

• Include documentation pages for less popular APIs.
• Include the latest docs for libraries or packages that are newer than the model’s training cutoff date.
• Etc.

To add URLs to the chat:

• Use /web <url>
• Just paste the URL into the chat and aider will ask if you want to add it.