AWS Bedrock Aider Configuration

Professional Aider configuration optimized for AWS Bedrock Claude 3.7 Sonnet with prompt caching, file watching, and a warm terminal color scheme.

Features

Configuration Details

Model & Provider

Behavior Settings

Git Workflow

Theme Colors

Instructions for AI Agent

When creating or updating an Aider configuration based on this skill:

1. **Create `.aider.conf.yaml`** in the project root with the full configuration shown in the source content.

2. **Verify AWS Prerequisites**:

- Ensure AWS CLI is configured with the `kepler` profile (or update to user's profile name)

- Confirm Bedrock access is enabled in us-east-1 region

- Check that the Claude 3.7 Sonnet model ID is available in the user's AWS account

3. **Customize if Needed**:

- If user has different AWS profile, update `AWS_PROFILE` value

- If user prefers different region, update `AWS_REGION` and model ID

- Ask user if they want to adjust Git behavior (auto-commits, dirty-commits)

- Ask if they have a `CONVENTIONS.md` file; remove from `read:` array if not

4. **Explain Key Trade-offs**:

- Prompt caching reduces costs but requires `stream: false` (delayed output)

- `gitignore: false` means Aider tracks all files, even those in .gitignore

- Manual commits (`auto-commits: false`) give more control but require explicit commits

5. **Color Customization**:

- Keep the warm theme as-is, or ask user if they want to adjust colors

- All colors use hex format (`#rrggbb`)

6. **Usage Tips to Share**:

- Use the `kip` alias to quickly switch models: `aider --model kip`

- The `CONVENTIONS.md` file will be read automatically at session start

- With file watching enabled, external edits will be detected automatically

- Prompt caching works best for repetitive tasks with similar context

Example Output

```yaml

https://aider.chat/docs/config/aider_conf.html

Default Model

model: claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219

AWS Settings

set-env:

- AWS_REGION=us-east-1

- AWS_PROFILE=kepler

alias:

- "kip:bedrock/us.anthropic.claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219-v1:0"

Behavior

watch-files: true

multiline: false

suggest-shell-commands: true

cache-prompts: true

stream: false # necessary when caching prompts

read: ["CONVENTIONS.md"]

Git

gitignore: false

auto-commits: false

dirty-commits: false

Theme

code-theme: monokai

user-input-color: "#d7af5f"

tool-output-color: "#d0d0d0"

tool-error-color: "#ff8080"

tool-warning-color: "#afd700"

assistant-output-color: "#d0d0d0"

completion-menu-color: "#d0d0d0"

completion-menu-bg-color: "#303030"

completion-menu-current-color: "#585858"

```

Important Notes