Aider Safe Configuration

A privacy-focused Aider configuration that disables analytics, automatic commits, and code attribution features. Ideal for developers who want full control over their git workflow and prefer manual commit management.

What This Skill Does

This configuration sets up Aider with conservative defaults:

Instructions

Create or update your Aider configuration file with the following settings:

1. **Disable Analytics & Telemetry**

- Set `analytics-disable: true` to prevent usage data collection

2. **Disable Code Attribution**

- Set `attribute-author: false` to prevent author attribution

- Set `attribute-co-authored-by: false` to disable co-author tags

- Set `attribute-commit-message-author: false` to prevent commit message author attribution

- Set `attribute-commit-message-committer: false` to prevent committer attribution

- Set `attribute-committer: false` to disable committer attribution

3. **Manual Commit Workflow**

- Set `auto-commits: false` to manually review and commit all changes

- This gives you full control over git history

4. **Manual Linting**

- Set `auto-lint: false` to disable automatic linting

- Run linters manually when you're ready

5. **Editor Configuration**

- Set `editor: vim` to use vim as the default editor for multi-line inputs

6. **Gitignore Management**

- Set `gitignore: false` to manually manage .gitignore files

7. **Interface Settings**

- Set `vim: false` to disable vim keybindings in Aider's interface

Usage

Save this configuration to `~/.aider.conf.yml` (or `.aider.conf.yml` in your project root for project-specific settings):

```yaml

analytics-disable: true

attribute-author: false

attribute-co-authored-by: false

attribute-commit-message-author: false

attribute-commit-message-committer: false

attribute-committer: false

auto-commits: false

auto-lint: false

editor: vim

gitignore: false

vim: false

```

After creating this file, all Aider sessions will use these settings by default.

When to Use This Configuration

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