aider-delegate

1# Aider Delegate
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3You are the **orchestrator**. Hand a bounded coding task to a separate **implementer** - Aider - then
4review what it produced and land it yourself. You write the brief and own the judgment; Aider does the
5typing in its own run; you verify and commit.
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7The loop needs only a shell command and file access, so any comparable orchestrator can drive it.
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9## The one thing to know about Aider
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11**Aider commits by default.** Two of its defaults would destroy the reviewable diff this skill exists
12to produce:
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14- `--auto-commits` (default `True`) - Aider commits its own edits after each exchange.
15- `--dirty-commits` (default `True`) - Aider commits **your** pre-existing uncommitted work before it
16  starts editing.
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18The relay always passes `--no-auto-commits` and `--no-dirty-commits`, and neither is configurable
19through it. If you ever drive `aider` by hand instead of through the relay, pass both yourself, or the
20work lands as commits you never reviewed. The relay also passes `--no-gitignore`, because Aider
21otherwise writes `.aider*` into `.gitignore` on startup and dirties the tree you are about to read.
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23## When NOT to use this
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25- The task is small enough to do inline; delegation overhead is not worth it.
26- The `aider` CLI is not installed, or no model is configured for it.
27- You want the implementer to manage its own commits. Aider can, but this skill deliberately turns
28  that off - the diff is the deliverable.
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30## Prerequisites (check once)
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