Overview
Aider is a USDC wallet for AI agents on Arc. You keep the money; each agent gets its own key with limits. These docs cover setting it up, how every rule works, and the exact commands and contract functions.
For AI agents
Read /llms.txt for an index of every page, or /llms-full.txt for all of them in one file. The agent instructions are at /skill.md.
Aider is a USDC wallet for AI agents on Arc. You keep the money; each agent gets an allowance.
Your first agent payment in 5 steps, about 10 minutes.
Everything you do in the app, as short steps.
Install aidr, connect the agent and pay, as short steps.
Let Claude Code pay for you, with example prompts and ideas for what to pay for.
The pieces, where the money lives, and what happens to every payment.
What happens when an agent pays, check by check, and what each failure means.
How payments over an agent's limits wait for the owner, with the money reserved.
Every rule an owner can set, what it does and where to change it.
The two emergency controls, what each one stops, and how to undo them.
How one agent pays another, and what each side should check.
Every event the contract emits, and how to follow them in the app or your own code.
Who can do what, what a leaked agent key can and can't do, and where keys live.
Every contract and CLI error, when it happens and what to do.
Habits that keep agent spending small, visible and easy to stop.
Every aidr command, flag and JSON result.
The instructions an AI agent follows to pay safely with aidr.
Addresses, constants, every function, view and event of the Aider contract.
The words these docs use, in one place.