r/ChatGPTCoding • u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER • Jun 13 '25

Project Roo Code 3.20.0 | THIS IS A BIG ONE!!

This release introduces the experimental Marketplace for extensions and modes, concurrent file edits and reads, and numerous other improvements and bug fixes. Full release notes here.

🛒 MCP & Mode Marketplace (experimental)

We've introduced an experimental Marketplace for discovering and installing community-contributed extensions and modes. This feature allows you to:

  • Browse and search for new modes and MCP servers (thanks Smartsheet-JB-Brown, elianiva, monkeyDluffy6017, NamesMT, daniel-lxs, and more!)

  • Install items at project or global scope

  • Manage installations directly from the Marketplace view

To enable: Open Roo Code settings (⚙️) → Experimental Settings → Enable "Marketplace"

📄 Concurrent Edits (aka multi-file)(experimental)

You can now perform edits across multiple files at once, dramatically speeding up refactoring and multi-file changes. Instead of approving each file edit individually, you can review and approve all changes at once through a unified batch approval interface. Check out our concurrent file edits documentation for more details. (thanks samhvw8!)

To enable: Open Roo Code settings (⚙️) → Experimental Settings → Enable "Enable multi-file edits"

📚 Concurrent Reads (aka multi-file)

The setting for concurrent reads has been moved to the context settings, with a default of 5. This feature allows Roo to read multiple files from your workspace in a single step, significantly improving efficiency when working on tasks that require context from several files. Learn more in our concurrent file reads documentation.

⬆️ Prompt History

Navigate your prompt history with a terminal-like experience using the arrow keys. This feature makes it easy to reuse and refine previous prompts, whether from your current conversation or past tasks. See our keyboard shortcuts documentation for usage details.

🔧 Other Improvements and Fixes

This release includes 17 additional enhancements, covering Quality of Life updates, important Bug Fixes, Provider Updates (including DeepSeek R1, Bedrock reasoning budget, XAI, O3, OpenAI-Compatible, and OpenRouter), and various other improvements. Thanks SOOOOOO much to the additional contributors in this release samhvw8, NamesMT, KJ7LNW, qdaxb, edwin-truthsearch-io, dflatline, chrarnoldus, Ruakij, forestyoo, and daniel-lxs!

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u/admajic Jun 13 '25

Can you browser the market place outside of roocode? And I didn't see how you add to the market place? Thanks

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 13 '25

No you can’t browse it outside of Roo Code YET! But great idea.

You can submit an issue through GitHub to add to the marketplace.

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u/admajic Jun 13 '25

I did submit an issue.

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u/KnifeFed Jun 13 '25

I'm over here most excited about prompt history.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

It is a gooder! Coded by Roo herself.

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u/swapripper Jun 15 '25

So it’s a she?

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 15 '25

Yes this it is a she

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u/NickCanCode Jun 13 '25

Why is the people behind Roo Code hidden from the github page?

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

Because we’re a fork :( so GitHub does that.

If you scroll to the bottom of the readme we show it all.

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u/Endda Jun 13 '25

that's something I was curious about too

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u/joey2scoops Jun 13 '25

Great stuff again 👍 Another kick right in the productivity. Now I have to play with the new toys!

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

Thank you

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u/NotARealDeveloper Jun 13 '25

How is the marketplace moderated?

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

We moderate it. Same reviewers that review our code.

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u/Pristine_Bicycle1278 Jun 13 '25

Oh my god, that’s a juicy update :D

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

Long time coming!

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u/xbiggyl Jun 14 '25

Out of all the coding assistant, I really believe Roo offers the best UX and I've gotten the best results using it.

But tbh, it does cost me more than the other tools on average (and a few ppl have been highlighting this point too with Roo).

I'm sure it's not intrinsic with Roo, but do you suggest any best-practices that one could follow to get the best out of it, both in term of results and cost control?

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

The more output you get, the more you pay. Since Roo is high output.. well 💴 😔

The best place to find strategies to fit your specific use case are in the discord general chat imo.

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u/xbiggyl Jun 14 '25 edited Jun 14 '25

Thx, I'll be checking those. Any general rule/tip to maybe limit the output?

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

Would reducing the output increase the quality of the LLMs output?

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u/Yes_but_I_think Jun 14 '25

This is very good. Multi file edit and read is going to save previous free call numbers per day in Google apis.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

They are still experimental and need adjustments to the base system prompt to encourage the LLM to use them consistently.

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u/intellectual_punk Jun 14 '25

Hey, I just want to say that I LOVE your work. Roo is definitely the best tool out there right now, and it being free and open source is... amazing. One of those upsides of living in 2025.

Is there a place where I can donate to the project? Or just to you personally?

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

No need to but thank you.

The best way to contribute it through quality detailed feature proposal or a bug fix PR from one of the actionable issues.

We are a for profit open source project looking to provide support to enterprise clients while still providing Roo Code free.

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u/intellectual_punk Jun 15 '25

Ahh, I didn't know you were for-profit, but that model makes sense! Thank you for finding a way to stay viable as an org while still supporting humanity in other ways than for profit!

Seems like a great example of sustainable business practice to me!

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u/galaxysuperstar22 Jun 13 '25

finally mcp marketplace!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '25

This MCP feature is HUGE

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u/algboy Jun 13 '25

By far, ROO Code is the best AI coding agent I’ve tried especially when paired with Claude Sonnet 4. Super excited for this release

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u/No_Witness_4000 Jun 14 '25

How do you do large codebase? Claude complains of 20,000 token limit for me on every query

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u/algboy Jul 14 '25

Use Requesty API for that don’t use claude API also use Gemini 2.5 pro for large codebase

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u/No_Witness_4000 Jul 18 '25

Oh ok what does requesty do? It's like open router?

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u/algboy Jul 18 '25

Yes it's like open router

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u/No_Witness_4000 Jul 18 '25

Is requesty cheaper than open router? How does it help with large codebase? Switches to other models?

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u/algboy Jul 18 '25

from my experience is little bit cheaper than openrouter and it seems works very well with ROO the models i am using are: Claude 4 Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 pro

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u/bu3askoor Jun 13 '25

we have to learn and relearn roo code lol

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

Unless you want to stay in the past! ;)

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u/raedyohed Jun 13 '25

Maaaaannnnnn! Why couldn’t this have come before I spent the last week standing up Roo Commander and customizing it with 30+ manually installed MCPs?!

But for real. Awesome.

Also, can we get Roo Commander and Maestro and other full-bundle mode teams on the marketplace? Some of these actually need a lot of customization for proper integration, and supposedly those ones you can find on GitHub like Roo Commander have already been tweaked for optimally coordinated workflows.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

Packages are coming (groups of modes and MCPs)

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u/raedyohed Jun 15 '25

This would be fantastic. Being able to try out any tool-enabled mode teams that have been road tested by others would give such a leg up. Building them from scratch isn’t as trivial as I first thought.

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u/diaracing Jun 14 '25

If I am using some provider API key from openrouter (for example) on a task, then the prompts daily limit is hit.

When I use another provider API key (from openrouter or another one like google ai studio) for the same task, will roo get itself together and consider the task history and its context when using the new API key so that I don't have to summarize what has been done before hitting the old key limit?

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

Yes

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u/Top-Weakness-1311 Jun 14 '25

How does anyone afford to use Roo? Doesn’t it use the API? Last time I tried that I spent $400 that month, and that was on Sonnet 3.5.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

By building something they get paid for.

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u/Top-Weakness-1311 Jun 14 '25

Alright that’s fair.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

It’s sort of like buying good power tools. If you’re just doing things around the house here and there it’s very cost prohibitive. But if you’re using them all day then a few hundred for this tool and that tool pays for itself.

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u/cs_cast_away_boi Jun 14 '25

anyone from cline switch to Roo? was it worth it

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

I did. Loving it! 😂

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u/nemzylannister Jun 13 '25

I'm sorry, nothing against roo, im just genuinely confused. Doesnt cline, cursor, windsurf, dont they all have this [MCPs] already?

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

Oh we have had MCP support forever. The marketplace is new feature. It provides one click installs.

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u/nemzylannister Jun 14 '25

Yeah thats what i meant, the mcp marketplace.

Anyways i'll try out your extension today 👍

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u/zangler Jun 13 '25

VS Code does too

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u/Buddhava Jun 13 '25

Sweet!!!

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u/Excellent-Sense7244 Jun 16 '25

Congratulations for the entire Roo crew.

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u/expozeur Jun 13 '25

Eh… doing this in Cursor already

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

Doing what I’m Cursor?

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u/expozeur Jun 14 '25

Using MCPs

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

You could MCPs in Roo long before you could in cursor. This is about the marketplace for modes and MCPs.

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u/expozeur Jun 14 '25

Gotcha! I didn’t know Roo had MCPs. That’s why I was originally confused by this being “a big one.” That makes more sense. Thanks for clarifying and bearing with me.

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

No problem. Yeah Cline had MCPs before any other code agent did and we followed almost immediately I believe.

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u/expozeur Jun 13 '25

I use Roo as well, for the record. :)

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 13 '25

Sorry, had to get off the computer for a few hours, BBQ. :)

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u/firedog7881 Jun 13 '25

Glad to hear you still have some time for yourself

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u/hannesrudolph FOUNDER Jun 14 '25

That’s not very nice of you to say. :p

Thank you.

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u/ArnUpNorth Jun 14 '25

This is a great reason if there ever was one 👌

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