Aider module

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Module Scorecard

Presentation & Onboarding	Agent Integration	Credential Hygiene	Restricted-Environment Readiness	Engineering Quality	Overall
12 / 17	10 / 25	20 / 20	2 / 20	10 / 10	59 / 100

Drilldown

Presentation & Onboarding — 12 / 17

Criterion	Max	Score	Notes
Configuration-mode examples	12	12	README provides four distinct examples: standalone with a coder_app launcher, custom provider, configuration file (base_aider_config), and serializing downstream coder_script via the scripts output. Each shows sensible defaults and covers major modes (provider choice, app launch, config).
Visual preview	5	0	No image, GIF, or video embedded in the README. Only an icon reference exists, which does not count.

Agent Integration — 10 / 25

Criterion	Max	Score	Notes
AI governance	10	0	No mention of Coder AI Gateway or Agent Firewall. The v3 warning explicitly states that support for Coder Tasks and AgentAPI was dropped, and no governance integration is documented.
Dashboard entry point	5	5	README includes a complete coder_app resource example that launches aider in a slim-window with a proper command.
Session continuity	5	0	No documentation of session resume, session IDs, or persistent session managers (tmux, screen, boo). The coder_app example simply runs exec aider with no persistence mechanism.
Managed configuration	5	5	base_aider_config is documented with an example, writing YAML to ~/.aider.conf.yml. This is managed configuration for the agent.

Credential Hygiene — 20 / 20

Criterion	Max	Score	Notes
Secrets marked sensitive	16	16	api_key is marked sensitive = true in main.tf. All README examples reference var.*_api_key variables; no literal or placeholder keys are inlined.
Non-hardcoded auth path	4	4	README examples consistently use Terraform variables for API keys, avoiding raw key pasting in templates. This is a valid path that keeps secrets out of module configuration.

Restricted-Environment Readiness — 2 / 20

Criterion	Max	Score	Notes
Mirrorable artifact source	5	0	The installer URL https://aider.chat/install.sh is hardcoded in scripts/install.sh.tftpl. No module input variable overrides this URL.
Bring-your-own binary	10	0	install_aider exists as a variable in main.tf and can skip installation, but this is not documented in the README. The README contains no example or section mentioning install_aider or the skip-install path.
Egress transparency	3	0	No dedicated network/offline/air-gapped section in the README. The installer endpoint is not enumerated anywhere in the README.
Runs without sudo	2	2	scripts/install.sh.tftpl never invokes sudo. It installs to $HOME/.local/bin, creates directories with mkdir -p, and runs entirely as an unprivileged user.

Engineering Quality — 10 / 10

Criterion	Max	Score	Notes
Input quality	6	6	All variables have descriptions; ai_provider has a validation block with an allowed list; workdir, install_aider, api_key, and others have sensible defaults.
Test coverage	4	4	main.tftest.hcl covers plan-time logic (env vars, encoding, validation, output ordering). main.test.ts runs integration tests against a container, covering install, config writing, API key handling, and failure modes.

Overall — 59 / 100

Raw 54 / 92 → round(54 / 92 × 100) = 59

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Scored against SCORECARD.md on 2026-11-09 with solstice-1.