ALL NPPS Members

["Ye, Shuwei" <yesw AT bnl.gov>]

Dear all,

Due to the difference on API and the URL between OpenAI-compatible models and Sonnet models, we can use the Copilot Sonnet models directly in Aider.

The API wrapper copilot-api can hep us.

$ source /cvmfs/atlas.sdcc.bnl.gov/users/yesw/singularity/alma9-x86/modern-linuxtools/setupMe.sh

$ copilot-api start -c

[...]

  ➜ Listening on: http://130.199.48.146:4141/

Then on another terinal, run

$ export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://130.199.48.146:4141  && aider --no-git --anthropic-api-key dummy --model anthropic/claude-sonnet-4

Please note that

1. Use your own URL in the env variable ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL as shown, and remove the trailing '/'.
2. And remember to enable X11 forward (required by xsel in the wrapper) in ssh if connected to a remote host

With the help from this API wrapper, all Copilot models can be used in Claude Code CLI. Claude Code has also been included the modern-linuxtools.

Cheers,

--Shuwei

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From: Ye, Shuwei <yesw AT bnl.gov>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2025 1:31 PM
To: NPPS members <Phys-npps-members-l AT lists.bnl.gov>; Torre Wenaus <wenaus AT gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to Use GitHub AI Models in Aider

 

Dear all,

There are two types of AI models provided by GitHub:

• Copilot AI models: https://api.githubcopilot.com
• Market AI models:  https://models.github.ai/inference

The command gh models list prints the list of market AI models. The available market models are identical between free Copilot subscription and Copilot Pro subscription.

To list the Copilot AI models, you can run:

$ curl -L  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" -H "Authorization: Bearer ${OAUTH_TOKEN}" \

  https://api.githubcopilot.com/models | jq -r '.data[].id'

gpt-3.5-turbo

gpt-3.5-turbo-0613

gpt-4o-mini

gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18

gpt-4

gpt-4-0613

gpt-4.1

gpt-4o

gpt-4o-2024-11-20

gpt-4o-2024-05-13

gpt-4-o-preview

gpt-4o-2024-08-06

o3-mini

o3-mini-2025-01-31

o3-mini-paygo

text-embedding-ada-002

text-embedding-3-small

text-embedding-3-small-inference

claude-3.5-sonnet

claude-3.7-sonnet

claude-3.7-sonnet-thought

claude-sonnet-4

gemini-2.0-flash-001

gpt-4.1-2025-04-14

The following 3 models is only available in Copilot Pro:

• claude-3.7-sonnet
• claude-3.7-sonnet-thought
• claude-sonnet-4

Aider can also make use of the Copilot AI models. But the Claude models in the list do not work properly in the same way in Aider as the other models. I am working to find out a solution.

Cheers,

--Shuwei

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From: Ye, Shuwei <yesw AT bnl.gov>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2025 1:59 PM
To: NPPS members <Phys-npps-members-l AT lists.bnl.gov>; Torre Wenaus <wenaus AT gmail.com>
Subject: How to Use GitHub AI Models in Aider

 

Hi all,

As promised, here’s a brief explanation of how to use the GitHub AI Models in Aider:

Step-1: Installation of GitHub CLI.

You can find the installation instruction at https://github.com/cli/cli#installation

As a non-root user in Linux, you can install it as follows:

wget https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/download/v2.74.2/gh_2.74.2_linux_amd64.tar.gz

gtar xfz gh_2.74.2_linux_amd64.tar.gz

cp -p gh_2.74.2_linux_amd64/bin/gh ~/.local/bin/

Step-2: Authentication of GitHub and Installation of the extension gh-models

Just run the following to authenticate your GitHub account and install the extension gh-models:

gh auth login

gh ext install github/gh-models

gh models list

Step-3: GitHub Authentication Token and Aider Configuration

In order to access the GitHub AI models, the oauth_token is needed, which can be found in the file ~/.config/gh/hosts.yml. The token can also be displayed via the command:

gh config get -h github.com oauth_token

Then add the following to the Aider configuration file ~/.aider.conf.yml

openai-api-base: https://models.github.ai/inference

openai-api-key:  your GitHub oauth_token here

Step-4: Use the GitHub AI Models in Aider

To use the model gpt-4.1, you can run

aider --model openai/openai/gpt-4.1

To use the model deepseek-r1-0528, run:

aider --model openai/deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528

Cheers,

--Shuwei

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From: Ye, Shuwei <yesw AT bnl.gov>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2025 2:07 PM
To: NPPS members <Phys-npps-members-l AT lists.bnl.gov>; Torre Wenaus <wenaus AT gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [[Phys-npps-members-l] ] GitHub Models

 

Hi all,

I just figured out how to use the 59 GitHub AI models in Aider. I'll share the instructions with you all soon.

Cheers,

--Shuwei

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From: phys-npps-members-l-request AT lists.bnl.gov <phys-npps-members-l-request AT lists.bnl.gov> on behalf of Torre Wenaus <wenaus AT gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2025 12:06 PM
To: NPPS members <Phys-npps-members-l AT lists.bnl.gov>
Subject: [[Phys-npps-members-l] ] GitHub Models

 

Hi all,

I just discovered GitHub Models, looks like you can prototype AI apps with various LLMs 'for free' in some cases. Anyone looked at it?

https://docs.github.com/en/github-models/about-github-models

I see I can enable it for the BNLNPPS organization, selectively for models I specify. There are free ones in the list like many varieties of llama and deepseek. 

  Torre

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