AWS Bedrock Claude Config for Aider

A production-ready Aider configuration that uses AWS Bedrock's Claude Sonnet model with sensible defaults for professional development workflows.

What This Does

This configuration sets up Aider to:

Instructions

When a user requests an Aider configuration file, generate an `.aider.conf.yml` file with these settings:

1. **Model Configuration**: Set up AWS Bedrock Claude model with alias

```yaml

model: work

alias:

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

```

2. **AWS Settings**: Configure AWS region and profile

```yaml

set-env:

- AWS_REGION=us-east-1

- AWS_PROFILE=default

verify-ssl: true

```

3. **UI/Display Settings**: Enable pretty output with dark mode theme

```yaml

pretty: true

stream: true

code-theme: monokai

notifications: true

```

4. **Git Integration**: Configure git behavior

```yaml

git: true

gitignore: false

auto-commits: false

dirty-commits: false

watch-files: true

```

5. **Prompt Caching**: Disable to avoid costs

```yaml

cache-prompts: false

cache-keepalive-pings: 0

```

6. **Developer Experience**: Configure helpful behaviors

```yaml

yes-always: false

suggest-shell-commands: false

check-update: false

show-release-notes: false

```

Key Features

Usage Example

After creating `.aider.conf.yml` with these settings:

```bash

Start aider with the config

aider

Or explicitly specify the config

aider --config .aider.conf.yml

Watch specific files

aider --file src/main.py --file tests/test_main.py

```

Important Notes

Customization

Users can override these settings by: