Aider Base Configuration

A production-ready aider configuration that provides sensible defaults for professional development workflows with clean git practices and custom convention loading.

What This Skill Does

This configuration sets up aider with:

Configuration Details

Apply these settings to `.aider.conf.yml`:

```yaml

Model settings

cache

cache-prompts: true

output

dark-mode: true

code-theme: solarized-dark

git

auto-commits: false

dirty-commits: false

show-diffs: true

analytics

analytics-disable: true

other

vim: false

multiline: false

read:

- ~/conventions.md

- ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md

- CLAUDE.md

```

Key Features

Git Workflow

Performance

Convention Loading

Automatically reads and applies coding conventions from:

1. `~/conventions.md` - Your personal coding standards

2. `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` - Your global Claude instructions

3. `CLAUDE.md` - Project-specific context (repo root)

Privacy

Usage

1. Copy this configuration to `.aider.conf.yml` in your project root or home directory

2. Create convention files as needed:

- `~/conventions.md` - Personal coding style

- `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` - Global AI instructions

- `CLAUDE.md` - Project-specific context

3. Run aider normally - settings apply automatically

Constraints