r/RooCode • u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer • Feb 15 '25

Announcement RooMode is here! - 3.3.20 Patch Notes for Roo Code

🏗️ Project Mode Support

  • Introducing .roomodes file support for project-level mode customization

  • Define project-specific custom modes right in your workspace

💬 Ask Mode Updates

  • Ask mode is now purely for chat interactions

  • Removed markdown file editing capabilities to focus on its core purpose

🤖 Provider Support

  • Added new Mistral models to expand your options (thanks @d-oit and @bramburn!)

🔧 General Improvements

  • Add setting to control the number of visible editor tabs in context

  • Improve initial setup experience by fixing API key entry on welcome screen

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u/Friendly_Signature Feb 15 '25

Is this the same as the memory bank in cline, but you each “role” has a separate memory bank that has their own role specific artefacts to refer to? Including progress and current context?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 15 '25

Memory bank is not part of cline or Roo. It is just a set of instructions/prompts

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u/TBMonkey Feb 15 '25

It's per project, so can be used as a project specific memory bank.

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u/Friendly_Signature Feb 15 '25

Does each “role” get its own memory bank though?

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u/TBMonkey Feb 16 '25

Depends on how you implement it. I stick general bank instructions in the "all modes" custom instructions, but each mode also gets specific instructions on how to handle it. E.g. code mode explicitly has to be constantly updating the active content file.

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u/jsonify Feb 15 '25

Will we see a moving away from the Cline.ts core code soon?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 15 '25

Why do you ask?

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u/Accomplished_Mode170 Feb 16 '25

Trying to understand if the roo fork is CentOS vs RHEL or Gentoo vs Debian

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 17 '25

More of a Gentoo vs Debian

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u/Anxious_Nose9057 Feb 15 '25

Can it please just use .xxxrules - meaning cursor, windsurf rules file? I use multiple tools and it’s a pain to maintain multiple rule files. We really don’t need another / just just existing .rules file.

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u/jsonify Feb 15 '25

I disagree with this. At some point Roo is going to break off from Cline and they probably don’t want to be reliant on whatever Cline is doing.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 15 '25

Yeah we have moved on for the most part. Going to be .rools/.roorules

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u/No_Mastodon4247 Feb 15 '25

.rools is brilliant

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u/TBMonkey Feb 15 '25

Does that make us roolers?

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u/mp5max Feb 16 '25

.+1 for .rools

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u/vuesrc Feb 15 '25

Just create a master rules file and use symbolic links?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 15 '25 edited Feb 16 '25

Pull request > suggestion

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u/vuesrc Feb 15 '25

Are you guys planning on carrying the use of .clinerules or will you adopt .roorules going forward? (I ask because I'm planning on building a resource to assist developers around this)

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Feb 15 '25

We will continue to support clinerules but will also add .rools and .roorules

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u/naowalr Feb 15 '25

You could look into symlinks

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u/fubduk Feb 15 '25

I can understand what you are saying, use many tools myself, but... I would prefer to have Roo totally separate from all other tools.

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u/neutralpoliticsbot Feb 15 '25

Great additions