Aider

You can follow these instructions to use your AI-VERDE API Key after Aider, self-described "AI pair programming in your terminal". More information on installing and using Aider can be found here, https://aider.chat.

Prerequisites

1. Obtain your AI-VERDE API Key. Instructions can be found here, https://aiverde-docs.cyverse.ai/api/api-token/.
2. Note the model(s) you want to configure for Claude Code. Instructions can be found here, https://aiverde-docs.cyverse.ai/api/api-key-models/.
3. Install Aider. Instructions can be found here, https://aider.chat/#getting-started.
4. The remaining instructions assume you have an open terminal on a Linux system with Aider.

1. Configuring Aider

1. Create a $HOME/.aider.conf.yml file with the following contents

   openai-api-key: insert-your-aiverde-api-key
   openai-api-base: https://llm-api.cyverse.ai/v1
   model: openai/insert-default-model
   

2. Replace insert-your-aiverde-api-key with AI-VERDE API Key.
3. Replace the text insert-default-model with the AI-VERDE model. For example, to use phi4, the model field would be set to openai/phi4 or if you were using nrp/phi4 model, the model field would be set to openai/nrp/phi4.

Note

This is the minimal configuration needed to use Aider. If you want to set other configuration for any models, you add a $HOME/.aider.model.metadata.json file. Instructions on the configuration values that can be set in this file can be found here, https://aider.chat/docs/config/adv-model-settings.html.

2. Running Aider

Run Aider with the following command:

aider

Note

You may get additional prompts if you're not in a git repo and if you have not configured your model further (see note above). You can also run aider with aider --no-show-model-warnings if you prefer to ignore model warnings

If you are successful entering Aider, congratulations!