Aider Multi-Profile Configuration

Pre-configured Aider profiles optimized for different development workflows. This skill provides four distinct modes: architect for high-level design, code for implementation, context for exploration, and review for code critique.

What This Does

Sets up Aider with four specialized profiles, each tailored to a specific development phase:

Instructions

1. **Save the configuration file**

- Create or update `.aider.conf.yml` in your project root

- Copy the profile configuration below

2. **Configuration structure**

```yaml

profiles:

- architect:

mode: architect

edit_format: whole

- code:

mode: code

edit_format: udiff

- context:

mode: context

- review:

mode: code

edit_format: udiff

system_prompt: "Review only; suggest, don't edit."

```

3. **Use profiles with Aider**

- Launch with architect mode: `aider --profile architect`

- Launch with code mode: `aider --profile code`

- Launch with context mode: `aider --profile context`

- Launch with review mode: `aider --profile review`

4. **Profile purposes**

- **architect**: Use for refactoring, file reorganization, or architectural changes where whole-file rewrites make sense

- **code**: Use for daily feature development and bug fixes with precise diff-based edits

- **context**: Use for understanding codebases, asking questions, or exploring without making changes

- **review**: Use for getting code feedback and suggestions without automatic modifications

Usage Example

```bash

Start architectural planning session

aider --profile architect

Switch to implementation

aider --profile code src/feature.py

Get code review feedback

aider --profile review src/feature.py

Explore codebase without editing

aider --profile context

```

Important Notes