Aider saves pages straight into your Showspace from a terminal on your Mac.
Aider is an open-source AI pair programmer that runs in the terminal. You tell it what to change, and it edits the files in your folder using the model of your choice.
Developers comfortable at a command line are its audience. It is a Python program, and it works in any local folder, so a Showspace is as good a place to run it as a code repository.
Made byPaul Gauthier and the Aider-AI project
Runs onA terminal on your Mac, as a Python program
Where pages goStraight into the folder you run it in
CostFree and open source; you pay your model provider
Also calledaider-chat, Aider CLI
Set it up
Start Aider in your Showspace with git switched off for that folder.
In lite.computer, click the account button at the bottom of the sidebar (it reads Free trial until you buy), choose Agent Helper, and copy the Setup prompt. Paste it into Aider. It saves a note about where your Showspace is, or gives you the note to keep if it cannot save one. It asks before each step and tells you when it needs your help. If you would rather Aider check first, ask it to read lite.computer/setup instead.
Ask Aider for a page. It saves the HTML file into your Showspace, and lite.computer shows it as it lands.
Run in your Showspace folder
aider --no-git
Try this prompt
Here is a starter prompt. How well it works depends on how your AI is set up, so adjust it to fit yours.
Paste into Aider
Build an interactive page for pricing my product: sliders for price and monthly customers, a revenue chart that redraws as the sliders move, and a summary that recalculates as you go. Save it as a single self-contained HTML file in my Showspace.
Good to know
Aider does not support MCP, so it cannot use the app’s commands to open pages or arrange windows. It writes the pages, and you open them in lite.computer.
Inside a git repository, Aider commits every edit with a message of its own. Add --no-auto-commits to keep the edits and skip the commits.
Name the file with an .html ending when you ask, and say it should be self-contained. The app shows HTML pages, so that is the format to request. See Getting an AI to write pages instead of Markdown.
We have not tested Aider with lite.computer ourselves. These instructions are based on research. Try saving one HTML page to your Showspace first. If a step needs correcting, email hello@lite.computer.
Questions
Does Aider work with lite.computer?
Yes. Aider writes HTML files into your Showspace, and lite.computer shows each one as it lands.