Setting up Aider

Disclaimer

This guide assumes you have already set up API access and have Aider installed. If you haven’t, please follow the guide on setting up API access and install Aider. Also heavily recommended to install Aider using a virtual env such as venv

Setting up environment variables

Do the following depending on your operating system

Windows

Open up powershell, and do the following command:

$Env:OPENAI_API_BASE = 'https://api-stg.boxchat.ai'
$Env:OPENAI_API_KEY = <key>

Alternatively you can also use these commands:

setx OPENAI_API_BASE 'https://api-stg.boxchat.ai'
setx OPENAI_API_KEY <key>

This will now set up the environment variables for Aider.

Mac/Linux

Open up the terminal:

export OPENAI_API_BASE='https://api-stg.boxchat.ai'
export OPENAI_API_KEY=<key>

Running Aider

Now you’ll have to use the following command:

aider --model openai/<model-name>

Where model-name is from our list of models.

On first load this will take a bit, but afterwards will be immediate.