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Aider Hands Your Model-Provider API Key to Every Test, Lint, and Git Command It Runs

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If you set OPENAI_API_KEY so Aider can talk to the model, that same variable is also visible to every test runner, lint command, and git subprocess Aider shells out to on your behalf. A GitHub issue says that's not a hardening gap — it's the current, unmodified behavior. What the source says GitHub…

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  1. 2026-09-28 10:56 · DEV Community — AI
    Aider Hands Your Model-Provider API Key to Every Test, Lint, and Git Command It Runs

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