I built Aura because I kept losing trust in AI coding workflows. A lot of us find a setup that clicks, build our habits around it, and then one day it changes. The model feels different. The workflow shifts. The tool you trusted yesterday feels unfamiliar tomorrow. Aura is my attempt to make that less fragile. It’s a local, open-source AI coding harness built around visible workflow state: what was planned, what the Worker changed, what actually applied, what failed, and why. The bigger idea is ownership. You can use Aura to shape the AI coding workflow you actually want: tune the Planner/Worker loop, refine Craft, swap API providers, and keep the version that makes sense for you. If a provider changes, you can switch. If the workflow needs to evolve, you can modify it. If a version feels right, you can keep it. The latest release also adds a proper Windows installer and in-app update path, so Aura can now be installed and updated like a normal desktop app. I’d love feedback from developers using AI coding tools: - Does the workflow make sense? - What feels confusing? - What would you need before trying it on a real repo?

Aura IDE

Open source AI coding harness you control

Open source AI coding harness you control