Connect → aider

Use AxForge with aider

aider is an AI pair- programmer that edits code in your terminal. It routes model calls through LiteLLM, so you point it at AxForge with the OpenAI environment variables and an openai/ model prefix.

Configure

$ export OPENAI_API_BASE=https://api.axforge.ai/v1
$ export OPENAI_API_KEY=your-axforge-key
$ aider --model openai/qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4

Or pass them as flags instead of env vars:

$ aider --openai-api-base https://api.axforge.ai/v1 \
      --openai-api-key your-axforge-key \
      --model openai/qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4

The openai/ prefix is required. It tells aider's LiteLLM layer to treat the model as a generic OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Without it, aider tries to match the bare name against known hosted providers and fails.

Notes

• For a model aider does not recognise, set its context window in a .aider.model.settings.yml so aider sizes the conversation correctly.
• Use a coding-strong model — the agentic role (which maps to qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4) is a good default; see Models.