Sidekick.nvim
Tied for most recommended of 6 Vim plugins
A Neovim plugin that opens a real terminal window beside your editor with many AI agents to choose from, built on an architecture people praise for AI agents.
9 people recommended Sidekick.nvim in Hacker News comments and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026.
Summary written by Claude from 9 comments.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- mixed feelings
- 0
- warn against or regret it
- 0
The record
Recommended in 6 of 12 months
In 8 different threads.
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 12 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
- Recommended in 8 threadsNeeds 5 or more, met.
- The biggest thread supplies 22% of its recommendersNeeds half or less, met.
The same rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. Mixed feelings count toward neither side. How the badge works
What people say about it
Reasons grouped from a sample of 9 of the 9 opinions about it, picked in proportion to how many people recommend it, have mixed feelings and criticize it. Each mark is one comment in the sample. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Real terminal beside editor with many agents
“Sidekick.nvim is nice, you get a "real" terminal window on the side with many different agents to choose from.”
Comment from 29 Mar 2026 in “Neovim 0.12.0” “interesting harnesses that are unique to neovim like sidekick”
Comment from 10 Jul 2026 in “How do you use Vim in the era of AI?” Architecture suited to building AI agents
“Interesting architecture! seems its the correct way to build ai bots and agents.”
Comment from 18 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: The Extensible, Multi-Agent Personal AI Sidekick” “Sidekick was purpose built to lean into new interaction dynamics”
Comment from 3 Oct 2026 in “Show HN: We built a real-time desktop companion for patient's telehealth visits”
Other Vim plugins people recommend
The four most recommended other Vim plugins, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Mixed | Criticize | Approval | Months | Had for | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sidekick.nvimThis page | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 6 | — | — |
| vim-fugitive | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
| CodeCompanion.nvim | 7 | 0 | 2 | 78% | 3 | — | — |
| IdeaVim | 6 | 2 | 0 | 100% | 6 | — | — |
| lazy.nvim | 6 | 1 | 1 | 86% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
All 9 opinions about it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Sidekick was purpose built to lean into new interaction dynamics”
“The form factor was basically perfect.”
“outstanding file managers way back in the MS-DOS days”
“Sidekick is pretty useful for merchants who do not want to navigate the UI”
“interesting harnesses that are unique to neovim like sidekick”
“its a pretty easy deploy with win/mac/lin”
“it's also made by Folke, the same developer who made lazy.nvim and snacks.nvim, as well as some other high-quality plugins”
“Sidekick.nvim is nice, you get a "real" terminal window on the side with many different agents to choose from.”
“Interesting architecture! seems its the correct way to build ai bots and agents.”
Counts come from 1,791,911 Hacker News comments labeled by Claude, November 2025 to October 2026, with data through October 31, 2026. Counts updated 2 Nov 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.