Aider AI Coding Assistant

Launch Aider to assist with AI-powered code editing in your git repository. This configuration uses DeepSeek models for cost-effective AI pair programming with automatic commits, linting, and intelligent code modifications.

What This Skill Does

Starts Aider with a pre-configured setup optimized for:

Instructions

When the user requests AI coding assistance with Aider:

1. **Verify Git Repository**

- Ensure you're in a git repository root or subdirectory

- If not in a git repo, warn the user that Aider requires git

- Check that `.aider.conf.yml` exists or will be created

2. **Launch Aider**

- Run `aider` command to start the AI coding session

- If specific files should be edited, use: `aider <file1> <file2>`

- For read-only context files, use: `aider --read <file>`

- The configuration automatically uses DeepSeek models

3. **Common Aider Commands**

- `/add <file>` - Add files to the chat context

- `/drop <file>` - Remove files from context

- `/editor` - Open in nvim for manual edits

- `/commit` - Commit changes with AI-generated message

- `/lint` - Run linting on current files

- `/test` - Run test command

- `/help` - Show all commands

- `/exit` - Exit Aider

4. **Configuration Highlights**

- Main model: `deepseek/deepseek-reasoner` for complex reasoning

- Weak model: `deepseek/deepseek-chat` for commits/summaries

- Editor model: `deepseek/deepseek-chat` for editor tasks

- Auto-commits enabled (changes committed automatically)

- Auto-lint enabled (code linted after changes)

- Git integration enabled

- Pretty colored output enabled

5. **Environment Setup**

- Requires `DEEPSEEK_API_KEY` environment variable

- Can be set via `.env` file in git root

- Or configured in `.aider.conf.yml` (already included: `sk-e8be341407c049d4ac2c444616570197`)

6. **Best Practices**

- Start with a clean git state (commit pending changes first)

- Be specific about which files to edit

- Use `/add` to provide context files without editing them

- Review diffs before accepting changes

- Let auto-commit handle git commits (includes descriptive messages)

Usage Examples

**Basic code editing:**

```bash

aider src/main.py

Then describe what you want to change

```

**Edit multiple files with context:**

```bash

aider --read docs/spec.md src/feature.py tests/test_feature.py

```

**One-shot message mode:**

```bash

aider --message "Refactor the login function to use async/await" src/auth.py

```

**Lint and fix files:**

```bash

aider --lint src/**/*.py

```

**Run tests and fix failures:**

```bash

aider --test --test-cmd "pytest tests/"

```

Important Notes

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