Scripted aider doesn't write to the .aider.chat.history.md and .aider.input.history files and does not honor .aiderignore

[distributev]

Issue

Hello,

I'm using the latest version of aider.

What should I put here to use claude sonnet or other models?

If I do model = Model('sonnet') as I do from the command line it will not work, it will say that lilellm cannot find the model.

When I run this script

from aider.coders import Coder
from aider.models import Model

model = Model('gpt-4-turbo')
coder = Coder.create(main_model=model, fnames=None, read_only_fnames=None, auto_commits=False, stream=False)

coder.run('/ls')

It returns lots of files which should be ignored according to .aiderignore and it doesn't modify the .aider.chat.history.md and .aider.input.history files in any way.

Is there anything else I need to do for getting the same behavior no matter if I run aider from the command line or in a scripted manner?

Version and model info

No response

[fry69]

Thank you for filing this issue.

This is a limitation when you script aider via Python as do not initialize whole script this way. A possible workaround is to script aider from the command line.

This document may be helpful -> https://aider.chat/docs/scripting.html#command-line

[distributev]

OK, I'll try to use pexpect to integrate aider.

Do you think aider works fine under pexpect?

[fry69]

No clue. But if I'd want to script aider, I'd either do it from a shell script or I'd start looking into aider's tests and guess from there what I'd call and how. E.g.

https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider/blob/main/tests/basic/test_main.py

[paul-gauthier]

I'm going to close this issue for now, but feel free to add a comment here and I will re-open. Or feel free to file a new issue any time.