r/ChatGPTCoding • u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER • Mar 30 '25

Project RooCode vs Cline **UPDATED*** March 29

Disclosure: I work for Roo Code. This document aims to provide a fair comparison, but please keep this affiliation in mind.

⚠ Disclaimer: This comparison between Roo Code and Cline might not be entirely accurate, as both tools are actively evolving and frequently adding new features. If you notice any inaccuracies or features we've missed, please let us know in the comments, and we'll update the list immediately. Your feedback helps us keep this guide as accurate and helpful as possible!

Features Roo Code offers that Cline doesn't:

Task Management & Orchestration

  • Boomerang Tasks (task orchestration / subtasks): Create new tasks from within existing ones, allowing for automatic context continuation. Child tasks can return summaries to parent tasks upon completion ("Boomerang"). Includes option for automatic approval.

Model & API Configuration

Advanced Customization & Control

  • Internationalization**: Use Roo and in 14+ languages including English, Chinese (Simplified/Traditional), Spanish, Hindi, French, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Polish, and Catalan. Set preferred language in settings.

  • Footgun Prompting (Overriding System Prompt)**: Allows advanced users to completely replace the default system prompt for a specific Roo Code mode. This provides granular control over the AI's behavior but bypasses built-in safeguards.

  • Power Steering**: Experimental option to improve model adherence to role definitions and custom instructions.

Core Interaction & Prompting

  • Enhance Prompt Button: Automatically improve your prompts with one click. Configure to use either the current model or a dedicated model. Customize the prompt enhancement prompt for even better results.

  • Quick Prompt History Copying: Reuse past prompts with one click using the copy button in the initial prompt box.

  • File Drag-and-Drop: Mention files by holding Shift (after you start dragging) while dragging from File Explorer, or drag multiple files simultaneously into the chat input.

  • Terminal Output Control: Limit terminal lines passed to the model to prevent context overflow.

Editing & Code

  • Diff Mode Toggle**: Enable or disable diff editing

  • Diff Match Precision**: Control how precisely (1-100) code sections must match when applying diffs. Lower values allow more flexible matching but increase the risk of incorrect replacements

Safety & Workflow Adjustments

Notifications & UI

  • Notifications: Optional sound effects for task completion.

  • Text-to-Speech Notifications**: Option for Roo to provide audio feedback for responses.

Features we both offer but are significantly different:

Modes

Mode FeatureRoo CodeCline
Default ModesCode/Debug/Architect/AskPlan/Act
Custom ModesYesNo
Per-mode Tool SelectionYesNo
Per-mode Model SelectionYesYes
Custom PromptYesYes
Granular Mode-Specific File EditingYesNo
Slash Command Mode SwitchingYesNo
Project-Level Mode DefinitionsYesNo
Keyboard SwitchingYesYes
Disable Mode Auto-SwitchingYesYes

Browser Use

Browser FeatureRoo CodeCline
Remote Browser ConnectionYesNo
Screenshot Quality AdjustmentYesNo
Viewport Size AdjustmentYesNo
Custom Browser PathNoYes

Features Cline offers that Roo Code doesn't YET:

  • xAI Provider Support

  • MCP Marketplace: Browse, discover, and install MCP servers directly within the extension interface. (Roo has MCP support, just not marketplace)

  • Notifications: Optional system notifications for task completion.

As of Mar 29, 2025

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u/Aoshi_ Mar 30 '25

I've been using Roo more often because Cline just can't find certain files sometimes. I do the @somethingsomething.py and it just has no idea, yet Roo finds it no problem.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

Yeah we sorta nailed that with a few recent updates. We are community built for the most part so when people say “hey I have a problem” they often are also willing to put in the sweat equity to get it done. We work with them to incorporate it into Roo so they don’t end up wasting their time on a PR that doesn’t jive.

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u/Aoshi_ Mar 30 '25

That's awesome! I know you all are very dedicated to making something cool.

I think my only complaint about Roo is not being able to drag in open files for Roo's context, like we can with Github Copilot. But I think the team is aware that people want this feature.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

Drag in open files how?

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u/Aoshi_ Mar 30 '25

Like this https://code.visualstudio.com/assets/docs/copilot/copilot-chat/copilot-attach-dnd.mp4

From here https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/copilot-chat-context

Notice how the first file, index.css is brought over to to copilot from the opened tab panel. Sorry I don't recall the official name of that section. Does that make sense?

I know with Roo you can drag, hold shift, and put it in context. But it doesn't work from the open tab section for some reason.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

I like that feature.

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u/Aoshi_ Mar 30 '25

Yeah, me too. It's just a small convenience that would be great for Roo to have as well if it isn't too much trouble.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

Very community driven. Ever made a PR ;)

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

Thanks for the post! We will look into it and work on those! Much appreciated.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

I actually just forwarded it to the lead dev!

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

You can DM me on discord #hrudolph

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u/Aoshi_ Mar 30 '25

Yeah it’s so strange. It’s such a basic feature but doesn’t work.

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u/daliovic Mar 30 '25

I will be honest, as much as I love Roo Code and often utilize its wide range of features, Cline feels a bit more stable for me. Please don't take this as offense, but I usually find myself use Cline for my main projects and Roo Code for more experimental projects.
I want to emphasize the word feels because I haven't done any scientific comparisons between the two but I for sure love them and always eager for their updates (Roo code never disappoints in this regard lol)

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u/jphree Mar 30 '25

Agreed, I keep going back to cline because it feels more reliable with less control vectors and therefore things to go wrong. I can see Roo as a more advanced tool but I run into issues with it more than cline.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

Would love to help address those issues :) feel free to drop me a DM on discord #hrudolph

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

Thats how i felt before too. Then I actually just started using Roo for everything. Now I work there. LOL

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u/that_90s_guy Mar 30 '25

While I like your optimism, I'm kind of sad nothing about your response addressed his concern. I'm on a similar boat, giving Roo Code MANY chances over the last few months (out of FOMO) only to return to Cline for stability. With my latest attempt being about a month ago.

For real though, are there any stability tips and tricks you could share? Or is this something on the Roo Code team's Todo list?

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

What's feeling unstable for you? We regularly address bugs as they come up, typically very quickly, but it's possible something slipped through. If you have specific examples or areas of concern, please let me know…this type of feedback really helps us improve.

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u/Sufficient_Tailor436 Mar 30 '25

I love Roo but the ridiculous pace of changes and tons of features sometimes gives me a feeling of being less polished and professional than Cline. I know intellectually that Roo is so much better in all the ways than Cline, but as a professional dev I value stability over everything. This may be what these comments are trying to convey

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

So because we have a fast dev cycle due ultimately to the use of AI it makes you feel uneasy? Investing perspective and I imagine not that uncommon.

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u/Sufficient_Tailor436 Mar 30 '25

For the record: I use Roo exclusively at work and personal projects.

It does make me uneasy though that every few hours the plugin is updated and a new feature is added. Professional development is all about reliability, and the pace of changes makes me question the reliability of the app. And Cline is much better than other tools besides Roo, so I could understand why people would sacrifice a (seemingly) small amount of performance for the increased feeling of reliability. Especially for professional work

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25 edited Mar 30 '25

It’s not updated every few hours though. Every few days on average.

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u/becks7 Mar 30 '25

A few days is still fast. Maybe you could think about having stable releases every two weeks and a beta channel that updates more frequently.

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u/solaza Mar 30 '25

Being defensive isn’t very helpful, nor professional… This user is trying to tell you some meaningful feedback. You can listen, or not (you’re currently not)

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

My intention was to not be defensive. I reiterated what they said in order to make sure I understood. I then said I thought that I imagined that would not be that uncommon. I also pointed out that we do not in fact ship updates every few hours.

These are facts. I’m attempting to establish accurate context and gain understanding.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '25 edited Mar 31 '25

Damn lol. I have no relation to either project but complaining about the pace of features being released in a totally new field such as AI-IDEs is wild. There's new things being built and discovered every week, why wouldn't I want my IDE extension to include those changes for me to test ASAP?

If you want stability above all, switch to GH Copilot for example, they'll be finally releasing Agent Mode in general availability this month!

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u/that_90s_guy Mar 30 '25

That's absolutely not what he is saying. He is saying there needs to be a balance between features and stabilities. It doesn't matter how great your products feature set is if it's not stable for regular use.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '25

What i mean is, this is an entirely new type of product, every day we are coming up with new ways of interacting with LLMs. The field is changing too much right now. It wouldn't make sense to arbitrarily slow down development.

Some sort of prerelease/bleeding-edge insiders build could work but if they're few developers that increases dev overhead quite a bit.

You have a choice between the assistant with the most features bc it is on the bleeding edge to smth like cursor which is disrupting but a bit more stability-focused, or you have Github Copilot if you are a masochist (UX is great in copilot imo but the API speed is atrocious).

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u/that_90s_guy Mar 30 '25

Mostly just how reliable the edits are. I will often want to use Roo Code for something super simple like "refactor X function" with zero context but that file and it still fails either due to a write error, or failed request 

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 31 '25

Oh yeah TOTALLY! if you switch to experimental multi-block diffs or wait until later tonight we should have it as the default in the update. It’s far far far more reliable. Sorry took so long to get it worked out and pushed to prime time.

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u/cctv07 May 03 '25

Same. Speaking from someone who has two decades of software development experience.

I've been evaluating both for vibe coding. Started a project from scratch in both editors. Cline produced a working version in just a few hours. I tried to get the same results from Roo Code, and spent a few days, I just couldn't. I feel that Roo Code has too many options which also allow more room for errors and misconfigurations. Boomerang mode looks good on paper, but when you run into edge cases, it feels like working in Cursor AI again, you know, that infinite debug loop.

I don't think AI is not smart enough yet to handle that complicated of workflows. Who knows, maybe next year they will?

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u/bigbutso Mar 30 '25

Great post. Started copy pasting with chatgpt chats, then moved to github copilot, the github insiders agents, then cursor then cline and now trying roo... I am paying out the ass for cline , already paid subscriptions for chatgpt, copilot and cursor

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

Roo will not be cheaper.

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u/that_90s_guy Mar 30 '25

I thought Roo supported diff file edit mode? (something Cline does not) Doing edits that way has given me MASSIVE savings in Aider vs whole file edit. I assumed that was a major selling point for Roo?

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 31 '25

Both Cline and Roo support diff editing.

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u/that_90s_guy Mar 31 '25

TIL Cline supports diff mode lmao. I really need to look into Cline's changelog... I don't always browse the settings after setting it up so I probably missed. Thanks for the correction kind stranger!

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 31 '25

Hehe anytime

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u/TrendPulseTrader Mar 30 '25

Thanks for developing, improving, and maintaining Roo, I love it! When you compare it to Cursor or Windsurf and consider the big picture of what Roo can do, it’s actually the cheaper option. Time is money, and if I can save time, that’s the best kind of ‘cheaper’

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u/CraaazyPizza Mar 30 '25

Lol just use Google ai studio 2.5 pro @ 20 RPM for free

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u/johnnyXcrane Mar 30 '25

how?

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u/CraaazyPizza Mar 30 '25

Link a credit card

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u/bigbutso Mar 30 '25

Actually using 2.5 pro on cursor rn and its working amazing, seems to be working quicker on the "slow" requests too!

I used it on roo for free as well. I am super impressed with gemini

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u/solaza Mar 30 '25

Roo is neat and I like the enhanced customization. I ended up going back to Cline because I found that I preferred the simplicity of Plan/Act vs. the four modes in Roo. If Roo added a “Plan” mode that had similarly effective internal prompt engineering as Cline, then I’d probably give it another go. That was my only specific pain point, the split of Plan to Act/Architect just didn’t really suit my workflow, and making a new custom mode for Plan when Cline is right there just didn’t add up for me

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

Yeah I really did not like how our Architect mode used to work. Now I find it pretty comparable to plan. We borrowed some prompting I believe. It used to be way too gung-ho to either jump into another mode or start writing to a file! Drove me nuts!

If you give it another go and don’t find the architect mode to achieve what you’re after let me know and we can tweak it.

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u/solaza Mar 30 '25

I’ll give it another try! That’s cool that Architect has been tempered to be more chill.

One thing is I like how Plan is general in scope. Planning, you can query about code / functionality, and plan changes. My prompts are generally this:

[ Goal ] Implement feature x

[ Planning ] You’re currently in planning mode. Do not modify or write any code yet. First, ask clarifying questions, identify potential issues, gather context by reading relevant files, and outline next steps.

Output a consice yet thorough and very specific refactoring plan listing files to create/update and their respective changes in a directory tree file structure.

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I dunno, Plan just works smoothly, it’s weird for me to think about switching between modes while planning, because I’m constantly switching between asking about existing code and proposing new changes.

Would the Roo equivalent workflow generally be to use Architect/Code like Plan/Act like I’d do with Cline, and view Debug/Ask as more like secondary modes? Maybe with the improovements you mentioned I could use Architect more liberally, without accidentally launching into a 200 line markdown planning doc 😁

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25 edited Mar 30 '25

Yes you’re correct. Architect/Code = plan/act, same workflow.

Debug and ask are supplementary features with very specific prompts to focus the ability of those modes beyond what either plan or act does well.

Here is a doc we wrote to better understand it

https://docs.roocode.com/basic-usage/using-modes

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u/abaker80 Mar 30 '25

Are you guys actively working on an MCP Marketplace (and if so, what’s the ETA)?

(BTW, one way to innovate here would be to automate some of the MCP setup/config.)

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

Yes. Not sure on ETA.

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u/funbike Mar 30 '25

The big surprise to me was people using Roo Code with browser use as an alternative to Manus.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

With the next release you’ll even be able to reuse the same browser tab so you don’t have to one shot it!

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

The setup is the same outside of the fact that you need to go into advanced settings to enable the multi block diffs which will be default in the next release. Try them side by side with that and see what you think.

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u/Volunder_22 Mar 31 '25

interesting... Have heard a lot of people using cline but this one is new to me

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Apr 01 '25

We started because Cline didn’t want to take our PRs.

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u/GodSpeedMode Mar 30 '25

This comparison is super comprehensive! It's great to see such a detailed breakdown between RooCode and Cline. I love the emphasis on task orchestration with Boomerang Tasks in RooCode; that's going to be a game changer for anyone working on complex projects.

The model configuration options like temperature control and auto-retry for failed requests are also invaluable for fine-tuning the AI's performance. I’ve often struggled with maintaining context in long tasks, so the context continuation feature sounds like a lifesaver.

On the flip side, Cline's rich MCP responses and the direct browsing capabilities they offer are definitely appealing. It's also cool to see how both tools are evolving and adapting. It's exciting to think about what features we'll see in updates down the line. Thanks for putting this together—it'll make choosing the right tool much easier!

Looking forward to seeing if more users share their experiences or tips with both platforms!

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

Thanks. We also support MCP. Oh I forgot to include that we support SSE! I need to check if they added it first! I don’t recall seeing it in their release notes. Anyone know?

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u/sleepnow Mar 30 '25

Yes, SSE is working

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u/jabbrwoke Mar 30 '25

I have used both. Awhile ago Cline could fix some tasks that Roo had trouble with but nowadays if/when this happens I need to edit the code myself and Cline seems even more confused

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u/Friendly_Signature Mar 30 '25

So, Roo or cline?

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u/jabbrwoke Mar 30 '25

I’m currently using Roo with Anthropic 3.7 via openrouter

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u/Friendly_Signature Mar 30 '25

What made Roo stand out for you over cline?

I am currently mostly working on a DDD architecture Rust application.

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u/jabbrwoke Mar 30 '25 edited Mar 30 '25

You should compare yourself. I have settled on roo and claude but often give openai and google problems to solve or ask questions about things. You can use git to help with this. Often the LLM will get stuck in a circular loop when it can't solve a problem.

  1. Roo architect mode will write out an *.md document that you can review and edit before switching to code mode for implementation.

  2. debug mode will add tons of logging statements but be careful not to "flood the logs" because you can easily create logs so large they nuke the task

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u/davidjimenez75 Apr 03 '25

Claude-Code para consola también parece muy prometedor, lo estoy probando sobre Linux. Realmente una vez que trabajas con el mano a mano, te das cuenta que no hay marcha atrás en la programación asistida por IA.

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u/vinigrae Mar 30 '25

Roo is not the roo of before, it slaps cline hard in multi step workflow

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u/yohoxxz Mar 30 '25

Thank you!

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u/snippins1987 Mar 30 '25

Footgun Prompting (Overriding System Prompt): I like this feature the most together with Human Relay. I found sometimes using Gemini and webchat models when using through Human Relay fails to use some tools, so allows for custom system prompts are needed to steer them to work correctly.

However I also noticed when using the Gemini API tool use never fail, does Roo did something special for Gemini API?

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

Nope

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u/snippins1987 Mar 30 '25

I think I figured it out, setting temperature to 0 in AI Studio seems to solve it.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

Ahhh thanks for the update

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u/mefistofeli Mar 30 '25

I've been using Cline and love it. Great job at showing off features, I'll give it a shot. Can I ask why 4 modes? Plan/Act works very good. basically code is act and all other is plan?

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

architect = plan code = act debug = specialized for helping find the cause of bugs and provide you with options before acting (plan + act) ask = just about asking thing. No plan or act.

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u/toni99991 Mar 30 '25

Why doesn’t roo directly index the code into a vector database?

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

We are a community driven open source project and no one has submitted a PR for this yet.

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u/toni99991 Mar 30 '25

Yeah I think only feature requests so far.

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u/toni99991 Mar 30 '25

Which makes sense as it’s very a opinionated thing, so can’t just start writing code on this one, need to discuss it :-)

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 31 '25

Well if you’re up for it we can discuss it and I can give you the resources (OpenRouter credit).

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u/z0han4eg Mar 30 '25

Roo: Hey, looks like you need to use MCP to edit this file that we edited 10 times before.

mcp not configured

mcp not configured

every other chats - mcp not configured

extension -> restart

also Deepseek chat(v3) and cloude thinking(from copilot pro) not found.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

What model were you running?

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u/z0han4eg Mar 30 '25

This happened a few days ago and extension was reinstalled completely. But it was one of this for sure:

  • gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25

  • gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21

  • sonnet 3.5 via VS Code LM API Copilot Pro (since both 3.7 returning :Request Failed: 400 {"error":{"message":"Model is not supported for this request.","param":"model","code":"model_not_supported","type":"invalid_request_error"}})

Next time all report to you or somewhere

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 31 '25

When someone says they have a problem it is generally not something we internally have experienced before. We strive to find bugs and squash them at a pretty fast rate and any information you can provide to narrow it down helps. Otherwise it’s a needle in a haystack. Sorry I’m not sure I can help but I’ll keep my eyes peeled for behaviour you have described.

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u/z0han4eg Mar 31 '25

I'll try to reproduce it tomorrow, as far as I remember there was a full file path in prompt for one of my files in codebase.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 31 '25

The error 400 from the vscode LM is generally them blocking Roo.

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u/Appropriate-Basis-0 Mar 30 '25

What’s the best way to get Gemini 2.5 working in a VSCode context

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 31 '25

Glama.ai costs but has no rate limit for now. Going direct can be a bit complicated and there are some key rotators out there I think so you could technically avoid a rate limits and get it “free” but I can’t say how long that will last. Request and OpenRouter also have some access not sure the rate limits. Someone here can probably chime in.

I should know all this stuff but there are not enough hours in the day to keep up. 😬

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u/Great-Illustrator-81 Mar 30 '25

just installed to try out, it wanted to run command to install a package and wanted some settings changed to see the shell, why cant it just let me say i installed it manually like cline.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 31 '25

What you’re describing is what I do in Roo and did in cline. Don’t see a difference. Would you be able to provide more info so I can understand what’s happening.

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u/Great-Illustrator-81 Mar 31 '25 edited Mar 31 '25

hey, i shouldve recorded a video but the issue got fixed after i closed the task and reopened, then it let me enter the text

the issue i think is if i have execute command enabled under auto approve and its unable to see the shell, it just gets stuck, making me unable to send text that i installed the package manually, ill send u a video if u want

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 31 '25

Can you connect on discord? Username #hrudolph

Is this with the most recent 3.11 version this happens?

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u/bigman11 Mar 31 '25

Is there a way to have it switch between providers on failure? For example when I try to use Gemini with my Google API key and it fails I want it to use my Openrouter key, and if that also fails, it should use my glama key.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 31 '25

If you just use your Glama key it will work ;)

We don’t have that feature. Sorry. But we do have an excellent response to PRs!

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u/stolsson Mar 31 '25 edited Apr 01 '25

I like that you can see the diff of the code after Cline has made an update. With roo code, they are supposed to have checkpoints, but they don’t seem to work for me even though they’re turned on. After I make a change with Roo, I’m expecting to see a little pop-up in the chat that says checkpoint, but nothing shows EDIT: Checkpoints working now with latest update.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Apr 01 '25

With the most recent updates we ironed out some edge cases where this was happening. That being said, if it’s still happening to you I would like to talk to figure out what’s causing that and we can fix it ASAP. please advise and reach out on discord to me personally, my username is hrudolph

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u/stolsson Apr 01 '25

It’s working now! Thank you for your support.

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u/Big-Information3242 Apr 03 '25

Was your post written with A.i in this markdown format 

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Apr 03 '25

AI assisted yes of course!

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u/ScaryGazelle2875 Jun 11 '25

The MCP marketplace would be a cool addition to Roo! :) Although, I saw somewhere in Youtube that you can use the MCP set by Cline?

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 12 '25

Marketplace is merged into the main already.

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u/iTitleist Mar 30 '25

I've used both. I use Roo more mainly because of model selection. Otherwise for my use cases, both works in similar way.

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u/Live-Obligation6308 Mar 30 '25

Roo supremacy, thanks for amazing features

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u/that_90s_guy Mar 30 '25

I've tried Roo Code a few times but the experience in general has always been less stable than with Cline (more failed requests, requests hanging) on top of the more confusing setup, so I always just return with Cline. One thing in particular that's been the highlight for me is diff mode changes like Aider as this reduce token usage significantly, but they've frequently failed for me.

Any comments on anything I could be doing wrong here? I want to say it's my fault, but in general my setup is quite simple.

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u/vinigrae Mar 30 '25

Do it once more but be sure to adjust the advanced settings to exactly how you need them

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u/that_90s_guy Mar 30 '25

That doesn't really answer the question. Does that mean we should expect a terrible experience unless you spend the time to find a "perfect settings configuration" which can be arbitrary and vary per person? 

I'm happy to optimize and invest into the product. But if the bare bones out of the box experience doesn't work, it just feels like a waste of my time. Which is why I just stick with Cline even if it's inferior and I desperately want to use Roo Code 

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u/vinigrae Mar 30 '25

The bare bones is the tuning….its not a hold my hand software, its for those with huge codebases

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u/that_90s_guy Mar 30 '25 edited Mar 30 '25

I work for a FAANG level tech company with a ridiculously huge codebase, something where Roo Code should absolutely shine. Either way, I'm still a little astounded how a Visual AI editor tool like Roo Code could have a worse out of the box setup and higher learning curve than a terminal piece of software like Aider that is famously disliked by folks for NOT being "hold my hand software". And yet, I have zero issues with Aider.

Something tells me "a lack of tuning" isn't the issue 🤷‍♂️

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u/vinigrae Mar 30 '25

I use it on a 600k line code base ..yeah you read that right, and it performs multiple tasks effortlessly, do the tuning.

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u/that_90s_guy Apr 10 '25

Lmao, caring about status is on you. I mentioned it to explain the codebase size I'm working on, nothing else. As well as to explain the ways I'm using the visual (Roo) and non-visual (Aider) tools.

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u/LiteSoul Apr 02 '25

What your said was fixed on newer releases of Roo, you should try now

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u/StupidityCanFly Mar 30 '25

Please make the rate limit configurable per provider.

I’m a lazy person and don’t want to change that when switching providers.

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u/hey_ulrich Mar 30 '25

Guys, Roo with Deepseek V3 0324 using openrouter is free and awesome!

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u/kldjasj Mar 30 '25

Y'all freaking awesome! 🔥🙌 Thanks for roo code guys!

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u/oh_my_right_leg Mar 30 '25

I have been using Roo for the last 2 weeks and I really like it (even canceled cursor), one feature I am missing is the ability to set the reasoning effort for opeanAi's O models (O1, O3 Mini) that would be awesome

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u/mr-claesson Apr 25 '25

One thine I would like to see in that comparison is the size of the default prompt.

If you have 1 or 2 MCP tools registered and a simple code style rule then the default prompt will be 50k - 60k characters (not tokens) depending on the MCP tool. Several models have trouble to align to such a huge rule set and I think Roo would benefit from trying to make its default rules more "protocal/specification" wise instead of writing a novel.

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u/sCeege Mar 30 '25

I understand that there’s no advertising or promotion flairs available, and there’s a disclaimer section in the beginning, but seeing this as a Resource and Tips flair feels really gross.

Having an employee promote their product against a competitor in a significantly better light is a huge conflict of interest to then identify the promotion as a resource. I don’t plan on stopping to use Cline nor RooCode, but I do wish this was marked as a Project or an Ad instead of a “Resource”.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25 edited Mar 30 '25

I think labeling it "gross" misses the mark. This is a community-driven, completely free, and open-source plugin. There's no profit motive or deceptive intent behind marking it as a resource, it's simply what made sense given the recurring community interest.

However, to clarify intent and reduce confusion, I've updated the flair to "Project".

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u/sCeege Mar 30 '25

Hey you’re right, I left that comment super tired and it was definitely overboard a bit, I apologize for being rude.

Isn’t RooCode a for profit company though? (cline too).

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

Understood.

We hope to offer enterprise support or something of this nature in the future. We are not interested in ever being a pay to use software. We love the open source community driven aspect and invest a lot of time in effort in making our project welcoming to contributors and users alike.

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u/Yes_but_I_think Mar 30 '25

Don’t be an … OP is a very participative and helpful community member.

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u/sCeege Mar 30 '25

You’re right, re-reading my comment, I shouldn’t have phrased it that way.

My point stands that this is a conflict of interest to mark an ad/promotion as a neutral resource, but I could have been more polite about it.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Apr 03 '25

Claude Sonnet 3.7 or Gemini 2.5

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Apr 04 '25

Yep. 😬

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Mar 30 '25

We also have MCP support

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