Coding Tools

Aider

Aider reads OpenAI-compatible settings from environment variables.

Installation

Aider is a Python CLI. The recommended install works even without Python already set up — it uses uv under the hood to manage an isolated Python 3.12 environment:

macOS / Linux

curl -fsSL https://aider.chat/install.sh | sh

Windows (PowerShell)

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://aider.chat/install.ps1 | iex"

Already have Python 3.9–3.12? pip install aider-install && aider-install does the same thing. Verify with aider --version.

Setup

shell

export OPENAI_API_BASE=https://api.dravenai.lat/v1
export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-drv-your-api-key
aider --model openai/your-model-id

The openai/ prefix on --model tells Aider which provider adapter to use; the rest of the string is passed through as the model id.