3 posts tagged with "bugfix"

The Aider drone brief (AIDER.md) and its skills index are sized for a mid-class model. A ≤8B local model — Qwen3 4B in particular, Anchor's default swarm-local pick — doesn't have the context budget to reason about either one reliably: a live canary from a 2026-09-08 session shows a plain hello sending a 4B model into a 600-second confusion loop, treating Aider's own edit-format rules as the task. anchor --platform aider now also scaffolds a thinner, script-first card built for exactly that class of model — and along the way, live testing turned up a real bug in how the whole Aider platform is invoked.

AIDER.md — the drone brief anchor --platform aider scaffolds into every Aider project — has told operators since it shipped to type a literal /work to start the drone procedure. That instruction was wrong: Aider intercepts any chat message starting with / as one of its own built-in commands and replies Invalid command: work without ever calling the model. A bare /work never reached the LLM, on any model size.

On WSL2 with Ollama running on the Windows side, a plain aider invocation (model already set in .aider.conf.yml) failed with OllamaError: … Connection refused even though the model server was healthy. scripts/write_aider_env.py fixes it by writing the endpoint where Aider actually looks.