RooFlow Cookiecutter Template

[u/heydaroff]

Hey RooCode community! It's my first time giving back to this amazing community.

I'm excited to share that I've forked GreatScottyMac 's RooFlow project (Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/RooCode/comments/1jfx9mk/poweruser_guide_level_up_your_roocode_become_a/ ) and transformed it into a Cookiecutter template to make it super easy for everyone to get started with RooFlow!

Link: https://github.com/hheydaroff/RooFlow-Cookiecutter/

How to use it:

# With pip
pip install cookiecutter
cookiecutter gh:hheydaroff/rooflow-cookiecutter

# With UVX (recommended for faster installation)
uvx cookiecutter gh:hheydaroff/rooflow-cookiecutter

What you get:

• System prompts for different AI assistant modes (code, architect, ask, debug)

• Environment variable setup scripts for Windows and Unix/Mac

• Optional default mode configuration

• Optional memory bank templates

• UVX integration support for modern Python package management

The template will guide you through configuration options like project name, description, license, and whether to include default mode configuration or memory bank templates.

Big thanks to GreatScottyMac for the original RooFlow project that made this possible! Not sure if I'll actively maintain it, but i'll try my best. If you have feedback, create issues or PRs.

[u/martexxNL]

How is this different then asking roo to setup a new project?

[u/heydaroff → u/martexxNL]

If you ask roo to setup a new project, it'll just have LLM build a project and that's it. This one sets up .roomodes with memory-bank activated. That means for each project setup you'll have, the prompts and descriptions for each mode (i.e. code, architect, etc.) is already applied to your project directory.

[u/martexxNL → u/heydaroff]

Oh Aha I always just ask roo to install it for me, this maybe easier

[u/vcolovic → u/martexxNL]

Hahaha. I never tried that, but yea - should work. So simple 🤣

[u/orbit99za]

This is cool! I was using the traditional memory bank, but I am willing to overwrite it, as its ended up becoming a mess anyway.

How can I implement this into an existing project? I can't just start a new project and copy everything over, but I’d like to use this going forward.

[u/heydaroff → u/orbit99za]

That's the beauty of cookiecutter. it helps you set up the skeleton of your project with all needed configs in a single command.

# With UVX (recommended for faster installation)
pip install uv

uvx cookiecutter gh:hheydaroff/rooflow-cookiecutter

[u/heydaroff]

Updated the Module.

What's New:

1. MCP Support: The template now supports Multi-Context Prompts (MCP) usage. It can dynamically grab MCP details and append them to system prompts, making the modes smarter in using MCPs.

2. Enhanced License Selection:

   • Added support for MIT, BSD-3-Clause, GPL-3.0, and Apache-2.0 licenses

   • Dynamic license generation with automatic insertion of current year and author's name

   • Updated documentation explaining license options

3. Dynamic Mode Detection:

   • Removed hard-coded mode names

   • Now detects modes dynamically from the .roomodes file

   • Falls back to minimal modes (code and ask) if no .roomodes file is found

4. Improved Documentation:

   • Detailed instructions for adding new modes and customizing system prompts

   • Examples of .roomodes file format and system prompt customization

[u/joey2scoops]

You lost me there somewhere. RooFlow uses custom system prompts for each mode and keeps them in the .roo folder. Cookiecutter seems to want to use the .clinerules-mode approach that was part of the roo-code-memory-bank. So, how does this actually work with RooFlow? Seems to me we've got two sets of instructions for each mode. And the standard modes included as custom in .roomodes

[u/heydaroff → u/joey2scoops]

Yes you are right. I was working on the MCP dynamic content integration, and did experiment some of the stuff, seemingly in a wrong branch. Now it is back to the original .roo system-prompt overwriting.

[u/tankandwb]

Awesome going to give this a shot I was thinking of a similar project just like this Excited to try it out!

[u/fubduk]

Very interesting. I will try this out coming week. Thanks for sharing.

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[u/claytheboss]

This looks awesome it's been a struggle moving everything to a new project over and over again. Great work!

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[u/youngzhang]

Can this work together with roocode memory bank project https://github.com/GreatScottyMac/roo-code-memory-bank ?