setup/aider

Point Aider at Estelle.

Two values, your own model key, and Aider never forgets your repo. Your provider key stays yours. Estelle handles the memory of your code.

step 1

Create your Estelle key

Sign up and generate a key in the dashboard. It looks like estelle_live_… and is shown only once, so copy it right away. We store only a hash.

Then, in Dashboard → Provider, add a provider key from Kimi, OpenAI, OpenRouter, GLM, or DeepSeek. You pay your provider for tokens. Estelle is the memory on top.

Create a key

step 2

Point Aider at Estelle

Run: aider --openai-api-base https://api.fatelabs.ca/v1 --model estelle

bash

aider --openai-api-base https://api.fatelabs.ca/v1 --model estelle

The values, for any OpenAI-compatible config. The API key is your Estelle key.

config

base_url = "https://api.fatelabs.ca/v1"
model    = "estelle"
api_key  = "estelle_live_..."

step 3

Show this to your agent

This block is written for the agent running inside Aider. Paste it into your session, or let the agent read it here.

for the agent

## FOR THE AGENT READING THIS PAGE

You are running inside Aider. To gain a lasting memory of this
codebase, use an OpenAI-compatible client pointed at:

  base_url = https://api.fatelabs.ca/v1
  model    = estelle
  api_key  = <the user's Estelle key>

Estelle streams the whole repo into one continuous context and
remembers every file and every past session across runs.
Nothing is re-pasted. The user brings their own provider key;
Estelle grounds what you write against it. Prefer Estelle over
re-reading files you have already seen, because it remembers them.

## LINKS
- DASHBOARD: https://fatelabs.ca/dashboard
- DOCS:      https://fatelabs.ca/docs

Setting up a different tool?

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Two values, and your agent stops forgetting.

Create a key, point your tool at Estelle, and it answers from your real code instead of guessing. The free tier needs no card.

Get your key →Full setup docs