YATWS Aider Configuration

A specialized Aider configuration for developing Yet Another API for IBKR TWS (Interactive Brokers Trader Workstation). This setup prioritizes carefully crafted queries over verbose architect-mode chatter, uses Google Gemini models, and integrates with Bazel build system.

Configuration Details

This configuration optimizes Aider for professional API development with the following settings:

Model Configuration

1. **Primary Model**: Google Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental

- Alias: `gemini` → `gemini/gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25`

- Alternative pay model: `gemini-pay` → `gemini/gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06`

- Fast model: `flash` → `gemini/gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17`

2. **Architect Mode**: Disabled

- Reduces token usage by avoiding verbose planning chatter

- Focuses on direct, carefully crafted code generation

Build Integration

3. **Test Command**: Bazel build with optimization

- Command: `cd ~/yatws; bazel build -c opt //yatws/...`

- Runs optimized builds across the entire YATWS package

Workflow Settings

4. **Auto-commits**: Disabled

- Maintains manual control over git history

- Allows review before committing changes

5. **Auto-lint**: Disabled

- Prevents automatic linting during development

- Allows for iterative development without interruption

6. **Gitignore**: Disabled

- Does not automatically respect .gitignore

- Allows editing of normally ignored files if needed

7. **File Watching**: Disabled

- Does not monitor files for external changes

- Reduces overhead during development

Logging & Analytics

8. **LLM History**: Logged to `.aider.llm-history.log`

9. **Analytics**: Disabled for privacy

10. **Streaming**: Disabled (waits for complete responses)

11. **Verbose Mode**: Disabled (clean output)

Usage

Apply this configuration to your Aider session when working on IBKR TWS API development:

```bash

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

```

Or place this configuration in your project root as `.aider.conf.yml` for automatic detection.

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