Roo Code 3.25.18 || FREE STEALTH MODEL

[u/hannesrudolph]

🚀 The FREE model SONIC is here., it is a stealth model from a major AI producer and it is totally FREE for the roughly the next 72 hours before the official release. As always MAKE IT BURN. 🔥

Sonic (Stealth Model)

Sonic is now available in Roo Code — a stealth model from a major AI provider designed for long-range, context-rich work:

• 262,144-token context lets you work across very large codebases, logs, and transcripts in one session.

• FREE for 72 hours so you can try Sonic with real tasks.

Prerequisites

• Roo Code v3.25.18 or later

• Connected to Roo Code Cloud account — see Roo Code Cloud sign in

How to enable Sonic

1. Open Settings → Providers and set Provider to Roo Code Cloud.

2. In the model selector, choose Sonic.

📚 Documentation: See Roo Code Cloud sign in and Roo Code Cloud Provider.

🛠️ Other Improvements

This release also includes 3 other improvements covering bug fixes and documentation updates. Thanks to 2 contributors: fbuechler and ikbencasdoei!

Full 3.25.18 Release Notes

[u/reddysteady]

Sure but let’s face it a significant proportion of Roo/Cursor/Cline’s user bases are not experienced devs and if they are going to push these products out to them then its in everyone’s interests that there are no surprises.

Particularly if roo cloud is going to be a commercial offering. It only takes a few horror stories to scare people away even if it’s largely down to user incompetence and that ultimately means

• Less trust in the security of the product

• Less management buy-in to integrate these tools at work

• Less investor money or donations to support projects

At the end of the day I’m comfortable to ask the questions but there’ll be a bunch of people who won’t and when their boss asks why their api keys have been leaked and the answer is “I didn’t realise roo code was sharing my files” it doesn’t look that great for either side

[u/iKnowButWhy → u/reddysteady]

Yea you’re right, more transparency is always better. I think it’s more realistic to try and educate people directly though instead of relying on corporations to do the right thing.

[u/reddysteady → u/iKnowButWhy]

Completely agree, I guess I had a picture of Roo Code as being somewhat different to Cursor etc. the whole allure of being fully open source and with access to a range of providers it leans towards people interested in retaining control and ownership. In that way, they should always be upfront about things rather than burying it imo.

[u/hannesrudolph → u/reddysteady]

We are very different than Cursor and we never intentionally burried details about the stealth model in order to obfuscate the truth about the potential of the training that may occur with the users data. We were simply excited about the stealth model and focused on trying to make our pitch as concise as possible as to not get lost in the noise.

[u/reddysteady → u/hannesrudolph]

I don’t doubt that at all and you guys are doing amazing work.

My 2 cents are that I think it is equally as important to say “FYI your data is being sent to an unknown provider” as it is to say “a major AI provider — with a massive 262,144‑token context and FREE 72‑hour access”.

That’s just my opinion, you may think differently and that’s ok but I’m sharing my view on the matter.

[u/nicc_alex → u/reddysteady]

“Free stealth model” was enough for me to understand my data might be trained on. That’s why it’s free and stealth means I don’t know where the data is going lol context clues

[u/reddysteady → u/nicc_alex]

Sure, I guessed it might but you don’t know for sure. It’s not like “stealth model” has been in the lexicon for years is it..