Aider with Terminal Colors

AI pair programming assistant that lives in your terminal with a beautifully configured Rose Pine color theme and optimized settings for intelligent code editing.

What This Does

This skill configures Aider with professional-grade settings including:

Instructions

You are configuring Aider with this `.aider.conf.yml` file. Follow these steps:

1. **Understand the configuration sections**:

- Main model: `gpt-5` for primary chat interactions

- Weak model: `gemini/gemini-flash-latest` for commit messages and summaries

- Editor model: `sonnet` for editing tasks

- Cache settings: Prompts cached with 1 keepalive ping every 5 minutes

- Color theme: Rose Pine with custom user input, tool output, assistant output, and completion menu colors

- Git settings: Auto-commits disabled, dirty commits disabled, file watching enabled

- Auto-linting and auto-testing: Both disabled (manual control)

2. **Place the configuration file**:

- Save as `.aider.conf.yml` in your home directory or at the root of your git repository

- The file also references `.env.aider` for environment variables (API keys)

- It reads from `.aiderrules` as a read-only file for custom rules

3. **Key features explained**:

- **Reasoning effort**: Set to `high` for better model performance

- **Prompt caching**: Reduces costs by caching prompts with keepalive pings

- **Custom commit prompt**: Generates Conventional Commits format with detailed explanations of WHAT changed and WHY

- **File watching**: Monitors files for AI coding comments to trigger assistance

- **Rose Pine colors**:

- User input: `#31748f` (pine)

- Tool errors: `#eb6f92` (love)

- Tool warnings: `#f6c177` (gold)

- Assistant output: `#9ccfd8` (foam)

- Completion menu: foam text on overlay background with inverted highlighting

4. **Customization points**:

- Replace `gpt-5` with your preferred main model

- Adjust `weak-model` and `editor-model` to match your API access

- Change color values to match your terminal theme

- Modify `commit-prompt` to match your team's commit message style

- Set `auto-commits: true` if you want automatic commits

- Enable `auto-lint: true` or `auto-test: true` for automatic code quality checks

5. **Environment setup**:

- Create `.env.aider` file with API keys (e.g., `OPENAI_API_KEY`, `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`)

- Create `.aiderrules` file with custom coding rules specific to your project

- Ensure you have a git repository initialized

6. **Usage**:

- Run `aider` in your terminal to start with this configuration

- The configuration will be automatically loaded from the repository root or home directory

- Use `/help` in Aider to see available commands

- Use `nvim` as the default editor (configurable via `editor:` field)

Important Notes

Examples

**Starting Aider with this config:**

```bash

Config is auto-loaded from .aider.conf.yml in git root or home directory

aider

Or specify a custom config path

aider --config path/to/.aider.conf.yml

```

**Customizing models on the fly:**

```bash

aider --model claude-opus-4-5 --weak-model gpt-4o-mini

```

**Using with specific files:**

```bash

aider src/main.py tests/test_main.py

```

Constraints