hotovo/aider-desk

Overview

This skill creates AiderDesk agent profiles via an interactive Q&A flow and writes a validated config.json to the chosen location. It guides users through purpose, model selection, optional advanced settings, tool groups, tool approvals, and subagent configuration, then generates a ready-to-use profile folder.

How this skill works

I ask a small set of focused questions to gather the agent purpose, provider/model, optional advanced settings (only if mentioned), and whether the profile should be global or project-specific. I propose a single complete profile including inferred name, default limits, recommended tool groups, tool approval settings, and subagent config; after a single final confirmation I generate the profile structure and config.json.

When to use it

• You need a new AiderDesk agent for coding, reviewing, or automation tasks.
• You want a consistent, validated agent config created without hand-editing JSON.
• You need guidance mapping agent purpose to appropriate tool groups and approvals.
• You want a project-specific or global agent profile created quickly.

Best practices

• Describe the agent purpose clearly and mention any preferences for editing vs AI code generation.
• Choose provider/model in the provider/model format; I will split by the first slash and use it as provided.
• Only supply advanced settings (temperature, max tokens, rate limits, MCP servers) if you want non-defaults.
• Accept the single proposed profile or ask to restart with a different purpose — the flow does not accept piecemeal edits.
• Prefer 'ask' for most tool approvals; set 'always' only for essential read-only tools and 'never' for irrelevant ones.

Example use cases

• Create a global agent to review pull requests and run safe read-only code analysis.
• Add a project-level coding assistant that can edit files and run shell commands.
• Provision a documentation builder agent with last-message contextMemory to iterate on docs.
• Generate a security-audit subagent with full-context memory and restricted tool approvals.