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aider-delegate

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Delegate a coding task to Aider (`aider`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to hand implementation work to Aider - phrasings like "have Aider do X", "delegate this to aider", "run it through Aider", or "use Aider to implement/fix/refactor" - or wants to run a queue of coding tasks through Aider while staying the reviewer. This includes asking Aider to drive a local or self-hosted OpenAI-compatible endpoint ("have Aider use my local model", "run Aider against llama.cpp / Ollama / vLLM / LM Studio"), which Aider reaches via `--api-base`. DO NOT USE for local-model or coding requests that do not name Aider, for tasks small enough to do inline, or when the user wants the code written directly without delegating.

When to use

• hand implementation work to Aider
• run a queue of coding tasks through Aider
• have Aider use a local model
• run Aider against llama.cpp / Ollama / vLLM / LM Studio
• delegate this to aider
• run it through Aider
• use Aider to implement/fix/refactor

When not to use

• The task is small enough to do inline; delegation overhead is not worth it.
• The `aider` CLI is not installed, or no model is configured for it.
• You want the implementer to manage its own commits. Aider can, but this skill deliberately turns

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