Aider AWS Bedrock Configuration

A production-ready Aider configuration file optimized for AWS Bedrock with Claude models. This configuration includes model aliases, caching, Git integration, and custom conventions.

What This Skill Does

This skill provides a complete `.aider.conf.yml` configuration that:

Installation Instructions

1. **Prerequisites**

- Ensure you have Aider installed (`pip install aider-chat`)

- Configure AWS Bedrock credentials in your environment

- Have access to AWS Bedrock Claude models

- Create a conventions file at `~/dotfiles/aider_conventions.org` (or modify the path)

2. **Create the configuration file**

- Place `.aider.conf.yml` in your project root or home directory

- Aider searches for config in: git root → current directory → home directory

3. **Key configuration sections to customize**

**Model aliases** (uses AWS Bedrock inference profiles):

```yaml

alias:

- "default:bedrock/us.anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022-v2:0"

- "claude3d5v2:bedrock/us.anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022-v2:0"

- "claude4:bedrock/us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-4-20250514-v1:0"

- "haiku3d5:bedrock/us.anthropic.claude-3-5-haiku-20241022-v1:0"

```

**Important**: Use inference profile IDs from AWS Bedrock → Inference and Assessment → Cross-region Inference, not direct model IDs.

4. **Customize paths**

- Update `read: ~/dotfiles/aider_conventions.org` to your conventions file path

- Modify `editor: vim` if you prefer a different editor

5. **Git integration settings**

```yaml

git: True

gitignore: True

auto-commits: False # Manual commit control

watch-files: True # Enable AI coding comment detection

```

6. **Performance optimization**

```yaml

cache-prompts: True # Enable prompt caching for cost savings

```

Usage

After placing the configuration file:

```bash

Start Aider in your project directory

aider

Use specific model aliases

aider --model claude4

aider --model haiku3d5

Add files to edit

aider file1.py file2.py

With read-only conventions file (from config)

aider # Automatically loads ~/dotfiles/aider_conventions.org as read-only

```

Configuration Highlights

Customization Notes

Important Considerations

References