aide-architect-editor-pattern SKILL.md skillA
aide-architect-editor-pattern from anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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The two-call decomposition for any agentic surface that needs higher quality from a smaller model — Architect reasons + plans (no file changes, no tools), Editor translates the plan into exact edits. Use when a small/medium model is bottlenecked on direct editing; when chat quality is plateauing on 4B-7B models; when the user asks for "think harder" / "plan first" / "/think"; when a subagent would normally be spawned but the work is small enough to inline. Based on Aider's architect/editor…
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# Architect → Editor Pattern Born 2026-08-28 from rival gap analysis (Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, Cline, Aider, Windsurf, Replit all converge on this pattern in some form). The two-call decomposition is the single highest-leverage **architectural** improvement AIDE can ship — it lets the small house model (cipher 4B) reach planning quality that only much larger cloud models can do directly, because the **editor** is just a syntax-aware translator, not a planner. ## Research base (verified 2026-08-28) 1. **Aider architect/editor mode** (aider.chat/docs/usage/modes.html): architect proposes, editor edits. Two model calls. Default editor is auto-selected per architect (e.g. o1 architect + Sonnet editor). "Certain LLMs aren't able to propose coding solutions and specify detailed file edits all in one go. For these models, architect mode can produce better results." Article: "Aider's architect/editor mode for detailing changes." 2. **Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code, Cline, Replit**: every rival internally has a "think then do" two-phase pattern. Some surface it (Plan/Act), some hide it. The principle is the same: separate reasoning from mechanical action. …
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mdr add anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench/aide-architect-editor-pattern@sha256:af4e30656a6497ebThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260828.cc64d85, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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anonymousnomad/aide-sovereign-workbench · 53 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-26 · branch covert-production
API
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