Aider AI Pair Programmer

This skill configures Aider, an AI pair programming tool that helps you edit code in your local git repository using Claude 3 Sonnet. Optimized for the Claude Protocol $CLÔD WEB3 Vibe Developer Community.

What This Skill Does

Sets up Aider with optimized configuration including:

Instructions

When the user requests to use or configure Aider:

1. **Check for existing configuration**

- Look for `.aider.conf.yml` in the project root

- If it exists, ask if the user wants to overwrite it

2. **Create the configuration file**

- Write the configuration to `.aider.conf.yml` with the following settings:

```yaml

Model settings

model: claude-3-sonnet-20240229

weak-model: claude-3-sonnet-20240229

show-model-warnings: true

yes-always: true

watch-files: true

Git settings

git: true

gitignore: true

auto-commits: true

dirty-commits: true

attribute-author: true

attribute-committer: true

show-diffs: true

commit-prompt: "Write a concise and specific commit message describing the changes made:"

Output settings

dark-mode: true

pretty: true

stream: true

Colors (WEB3 Vibe optimized)

user-input-color: "#EDDA6A"

user-error-color: "#ffc444"

user-warning-color: "#ff4400"

assistant-input-color: "#f382f3"

assistant-output-color: "#f382f3"

assistant-input-background-color: "#929292"

assistant-output-background-color: "#929292"

tool-input-color: "#44ffc1"

tool-output-color: "#44ffc1"

tool-error-color: "#ffc444"

tool-warning-color: "#ff4400"

History and persistence

input-history-file: .aider.input.history

chat-history-file: .aider.chat.history.md

restore-chat-history: true

restore-input-history: true

restore-llm-history: true

llm-history-file: .aider.llm.history

analytics: true

analytics-file: .aider.analytics.json

keep-alive: true

keep-alive-file: .aider.keep-alive.json

Editor settings

architect: true

fancy-input: true

edit-format: search-replace

edit-format-regex: true

edit-format-regex-flags: "g"

edit-format-regex-multiline: true

edit-format-regex-dotall: true

edit-format-regex-unicode: true

edit-format-regex-sticky: true

edit-format-regex-verbose: true

edit-format-regex-lookbehind: true

edit-format-regex-unicode-escape: true

edit-format-regex-ascii: true

edit-format-regex-extended: true

multiline: true

detect-urls: true

Performance and caching

cache-prompts: true

cache-keepalive-pings: true

cache-dir: .aider/cache

map-tokens: 0

map-refresh: always

```

3. **Add to .gitignore**

- Ensure the following Aider files are in `.gitignore`:

- `.aider.input.history`

- `.aider.chat.history.md`

- `.aider.llm.history`

- `.aider.analytics.json`

- `.aider.keep-alive.json`

- `.aider/`

4. **Verify git repository**

- Aider requires a git repository to function

- If not in a git repo, inform the user they need to run `git init` first

5. **Launch instructions**

- Tell the user they can now run `aider` to start the AI pair programming session

- Mention they can specify files to edit with `aider file1.py file2.js`

- Explain they can add read-only files with `--read file.txt`

Configuration Highlights

Examples

User: "Set up Aider for my project"

→ Create `.aider.conf.yml` with full configuration, update `.gitignore`, confirm git repo exists

User: "Configure Aider with Claude"

→ Create configuration file with Claude 3 Sonnet models, explain usage

User: "I want to use Aider for pair programming"

→ Set up configuration, explain how to launch Aider and specify files to edit

Important Notes