Aider

Auth: depends on the backing model. Ollama is free and local; cloud models need their respective keys. Cost: free with Ollama; per-token with cloud models. Output: plain text.

Install

pip install aider-chat

See https://aider.chat for full instructions and supported model providers.

Config entry (Ollama)

{
  "id": "aider-ollama",
  "enabled": false,
  "command": "aider",
  "args": [
    "--model", "{model}",
    "--message", "{prompt}",
    "--no-auto-commit",
    "--yes",
    "--no-stream"
  ],
  "prompt_via": "arg",
  "model": "ollama/deepseek-coder-v2",
  "result_path": null,
  "timeout": 600,
  "paid": false
}

Notes

• --message runs Aider one-shot non-interactively.
• --no-auto-commit --yes --no-stream keep it from touching git, prompting, or streaming partial output that mangles capture.
• ollama/ (or ollama_chat/) prefix routes through your local Ollama.
• Switch the model value and flip paid to point at any cloud provider Aider supports.