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Frequently asked questions

Can I use aider with other LLMs, local LLMs, etc?

Aider does not officially support use with LLMs other than OpenAI's gpt-3.5-turbo and gpt-4 and their variants.

It generally requires some model-specific tuning to get prompts and editing formats working well. For example, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 use very different prompts and editing formats in aider right now. Adopting new LLMs will probably require a similar effort to tailor the prompting and edit formats.

That said, aider does provide some features to experiment with other models. If you can make the model accessible via an OpenAI compatible API, you can use --openai-api-base to connect to a different API endpoint.

Here is are some GitHub issues which may contain relevant information.

LocalAI looks like a relevant tool to serve many local models via a compatible API:

Can I change the system prompts that aider uses?

Aider is set up to support different system prompts and edit formats in a modular way. If you look in the aider/coders subdirectory, you'll see there's a base coder with base prompts, and then there are a number of different specific coder implementations.

While it's not yet documented how to add new coder subsystems, you may be able to modify an existing implementation or use it as a template to add another.

If you're thinking about experimenting with system prompts this document about benchmarking GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 on code editing might be useful background.

Can I run aider in Google Colab?

User imabutahersiddik has provided this Colab notebook.

How do I get ctags working?

First, be aware that ctags is completely optional and not required to use aider.

If you wish to use ctags, you should consult the universal ctags repo for official instructions on how to install it in your environment. You may be able to install a compatible version using these commands:

  • Mac: brew install universal-ctags
  • Windows: choco install universal-ctags
  • Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install universal-ctags

Some things to be aware of:

  • The ctags command needs to be on your shell path so that it will run by default when aider invokes ctags ....
  • You need a build which includes the json feature. You can check by running ctags --version and looking for +json in the Optional compiled features list.