aider-setup — the aider nightly local-coding pipeline

Index page. The aider-setup skill is a second, independent local-coding harness that needs no Claude Code: two local Ollama models (a writer that codes and tests, a reviewer that never edits, gated by measured token budgets) run one aider process per plan overnight, driven by aider-plan.ps1 / aider-night.ps1. See the root README.md Skills table for the one-line summary and Architecture.md for how it fits the rest of the toolkit.

Its own docs live beside the skill, not here, so the code and its documentation stay one commit apart (R18):

Doc	Covers
.claude/skills/aider-setup/SKILL.md	What the skill does, the three pieces and their lifetimes, the scripts/build/ packaging pipeline for the student-facing aider-kit.zip
.claude/skills/aider-setup/MANUAL.md	The full runbook: install, build the kit, test the computer, tune Ollama and build the tag, create a project, write the three inputs, run a night, read the result, budgets, git during a run
.claude/skills/aider-setup/CONFIG_OLLAMA.md	Measured Ollama tuning for THIS harness: the input-token floor, the GPU/context/thread test, num_ctx/num_gpu/num_thread, tuning the reviewer too
.claude/skills/aider-setup/EXAMPLE-PROMPT-robot.md	A worked planning-prompt example (mobile robot path planner) for a first run
.claude/skills/aider-setup/MEMORY.md	Continuity notes for the next session working on this skill: where things live, traps, what is left undone

Nightly entry point, once the machine is set up (no Claude Code involved):

.claude\skills\aider-setup\scripts\aider-night.ps1