AiderDesk is an open-source desktop platform that coordinates AI-assisted software development around the Aider coding tool, letting engineers inspect and control proposed changes. It is for professional developers who want AI help while retaining their existing editor, terminal, and Git workflow. Catalogue add-ons extend its controlled development workflow.
Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add hotovo/aider-desk --skill theme-factorygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hotovo/aider-deskWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/hotovo/aider-desk/theme-factory)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hotovo/aider-desk/theme-factory"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hotovo/aider-desk/theme-factory/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hotovo/aider-desk/theme-factory"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hotovo/aider-desk/theme-factory.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Excessive Agency · line 218 Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00053 | $0.03256 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00021 | $0.01302 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00011 | $0.00651 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00326 |
Grade A, and why
theme-factory scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 270 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Theme Factory
Use this skill when you need to add a new theme to AiderDesk.
AiderDesk themes are implemented as SCSS files that define a .theme-<name> class with a full set of CSS custom properties (variables). The UI uses Tailwind utilities mapped to these CSS variables.
Where themes live
- Theme files:
src/renderer/src/themes/theme-<name>.scss - Theme aggregator (imports all themes):
src/renderer/src/themes/themes.scss - Theme type registry:
packages/common/src/types/common.ts(THEMES) - Theme selector UI:
src/renderer/src/components/settings/GeneralSettings.tsx - Theme application:
src/renderer/src/App.tsx(appliestheme-<name>class todocument.body) - Theme display names (i18n):
packages/common/src/locales/en.json(themeOptions.<name>)packages/common/src/locales/zh.json(themeOptions.<name>)
Definition format
Each theme is a class:
- Class name:
.theme-<name> - Contents: a complete set of
--color-*variables.
Best workflow: copy an existing theme (e.g. theme-dark.scss) and adjust values.
Checklist: add a new theme
1) Choose a theme name
Pick a kebab-case name, e.g. sunset, nord, paper.
You will reference it consistently in:
- CSS class:
.theme-<name> - filename:
theme-<name>.scss THEMESarray value:'<name>'- i18n key:
themeOptions.<name>
2) Create the theme SCSS file
Create:
src/renderer/src/themes/theme-<name>.scss
Start by copying a similar theme (dark -> dark-ish, light -> light-ish), then update the hex colors.
Minimum requirement: define all variables expected by the app.
Practical way to ensure completeness:
- Compare with
src/renderer/src/themes/theme-dark.scss(or another full theme) - Keep variable names identical; only change values.
3) Register the theme in the theme aggregator
Edit:
src/renderer/src/themes/themes.scss
Add:
@use 'theme-<name>.scss';
If the file is not imported here, it won’t be included in the built CSS.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago First seen · 270 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 4c03736727f5
theme-factory is a skill published in the GitHub repository hotovo/aider-desk (1,459 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 3,256 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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