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Run npx skillmds@latest add ryan-brosas/aider-foundation in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

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ryan-brosas (@ryan-brosas) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Aider Foundation by ryan-brosas — Agent Skill

Name: Aider Foundation
Author: ryan-brosas

Aider Foundation

Use when building AI pair-programming harnesses: token-bounded repository context, repairable edits, explicit file and consent gates, plan-to-edit handoff, diagnostic feedback, provider policy, and scoped Git safety.

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File contents

Aider: AI Pair-Programming Foundation

Foundation contract

This is a cold, source-specific foundation, not an operational procedure. It is historical, revision-pinned evidence rather than timeless guidance. Current project source, tests, requirements, and runtime behavior outrank this projection and decide what ships.

Provenance and revision

Source record: aider; portable upstream identity, license, coverage caveats, and retrieval history are preserved in the index.
Recorded revision: main@5dc9490bb35f9729ef2c95d00a19ccd30c26339c.
Full provenance, coverage caveats, boundaries, and preserved evidence: references/index.md.

Topic map

Representative topics: Context selection and assembly; Edit protocol and mutation boundary; Commit attribution & messaging; Drift-tolerant edit engines; Unified-diff plane; V4A patch plane; Streaming presentation and session replay; Collaboration and consent.
Scope and retrieval questions: references/index.md#use-this-for.
Complete capsule chooser: references/index.md#load-the-matching-source-dump.
Detailed grouped map: references/index.md#capsule-map.
Source limitations and portability boundaries: references/index.md#boundaries.

Retrieval

Open the index, choose one capsule matching the active question, and load only that capsule. Revalidate its cited source and revision before relying on it. Do not bulk-load the inventory, treat historical claims as current truth, or apply this foundation as a procedure.

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