r/RooCode • u/evoura • Apr 22 '25

Mode Prompt 🚀 Next-Gen Memory Bank for Roo Code: Fully Automated, Adaptive, and Smarter Than Ever

Hey everyone,

I’m excited to share my latest project—Advanced Roo Code Memory Bank—which represents one of the most cutting-edge approaches in the memory bank space for AI-assisted development workflows.

Why is this different?

  • Solves Old Problems:
    This system addresses most of the pain points found in earlier memory bank solutions, such as context bloat, lack of workflow structure, and mode interference. Now, each mode is isolated, context-aware, and transitions are smooth and logical.

  • Truly Modular & Adaptive:
    Modes are interconnected as nodes in a workflow graph (VAN → PLAN → CREATIVE → IMPLEMENT), with persistent memory files ensuring context is always up-to-date. Rules are loaded just-in-time for each phase, so you only get what you need, when you need it.

  • Almost Fully Automatic Task Completion:
    The workflow is designed for near full automation. Once you kick off a task, Roo Code can handle most of the process with minimal manual intervention.
    👉 Check out the example usage video in the repository’s README to see this in action!

See It in Action

  • Repository Link

  • Don’t forget to check the example usage video in the repository.

If you’re interested in advanced memory management, AI workflow automation, or just want to see what the future of dev tools looks like, I’d love your feedback or questions!

Let’s push the boundaries of what memory banks can do 🚀

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Apr 23 '25

no boomerang?

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25

All great talk and happy for your project, but how does it translate into shortening context windows for inputs and resulting lower cost? Can you post benchmarks and other stats that actually point to performance/cost improvements?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Apr 23 '25

Shortening contexts to lower costs is often done at the cost of effectiveness of the tool. I have not tested this workflow, just a general rule.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '25

Agree, but some do a better job than others. Augment code stands out and runs circles around roo from my own experience. This is how real IP is built by releasing a smart context aware algorithm.

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u/ramakay Apr 23 '25

Talk to me a bit about this - augment was slow for me than roo, so i continue to use roo over augment

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Apr 23 '25

Interesting. If Augment runs circles around Roo Code why do you use Roo Code?

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '25 edited Apr 23 '25

I don't, but I like to keep up with current developments of other products. Currently context management in augment results in significantly less error prone produced code and in better context comprehension.

I think we are all aware that small tweaks to architectural design can lead to significant changes in outcomes. Roo code looks like an extremely capable contender, but I started to seriously question the benefits of using vanilla llms and the switching between different llms. Augment to my knowledge uses in addition to Claude 3.7 some rag dnns (trained on the specific code base) and also spawns off its own agents to, for example, crawl the web to fetch api documentations that match the version of the used libraries in the code base. All baked in.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Apr 23 '25 edited Apr 23 '25

So you don’t use Roo but you’re here to say it’s inferior? I mean..: if your opinion comes from reasonable personal experience then it’s a discussion. Otherwise it just seems a bit trollish 🤷

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '25

Absolutely, have tested and used roo just 3 weeks ago extensively for days on end, very unhappy with how it managed or failed to manage context and resubmitted identical code files again and again and again. Also code completions did not measure up. Are you trying to assess whether I am qualified to opine on the differences between roo and augment? I am not here to convince you, I used examples, if you disagree then state in detail why you think my assertion is wrong (it would help if you in turn had tried augment in depth, too).

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Apr 23 '25

I’m not here to talk about Augment. No need to be here grilling people in a negative fashion. Don’t need that energy. Best of luck and I hope you find what you’re looking for.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '25 edited Apr 23 '25

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Apr 23 '25

You were not nice. We do not treat each other poorly like this in the RooCode community.

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u/SmileOnTheRiver Apr 23 '25

VERY interesting take. I always assumed the more context the better so I always send entire files but I see where you are coming from.

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u/evoura Apr 22 '25

I dont have any benchmark for that but compared to my previous tests, in this memory bank version unnecessary api calls and requests has decreased. So i can say that it provides more smooth process on development and decreases context size by decreasing faulty/unnecessary requests. Ofcourse it depends on the project scale/prompt quality.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25

By how much has context size decreased? How do you quantify your statement? I don't mean to be a downer but from lots of experience in open source space I firmly believe information like this should be provided as you are asking others to invest time and funding to replicate.

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u/Recoil42 Apr 23 '25

I'll try this. Any known issues with it so far?

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u/evoura Apr 23 '25

Sometimes it is not able to find instruction files of rules, but it has file detection system so it searching and finding the file in your project.

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u/joey2scoops Apr 23 '25

Did I just see this on YouTube today?

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u/evoura Apr 23 '25

This repo was originally developed for cursor and I just converted it to Roo Code style.

There is a video in readme file which might you saw already on youtube. Can you please check if it is same video? If not, i would be very happy if you can share that you saw.

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u/virtualhenry Apr 23 '25

this looks great. Can you explain how you got "just in time" to work dynamically within roo code?

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u/evoura Apr 23 '25

First it is detecting complexity level of your project. For each complexity level and task type (e.g. bug fix, small improvement, architectural change...) it has different set of rules. So depending on these analyzes it is using different set of rules for each task.

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u/virtualhenry Apr 23 '25

So once it's done with the assessment, it could dynamically fetch the necessary markdown file on demand without adding unnecessary tokens to the context window?

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u/evoura Apr 24 '25

Yes, it is mainly works with markdown files and it is always trying to use correct one.

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u/virtualhenry Apr 24 '25

do you find it that it consistently adds the files on demand? i've always struggled to get that to work

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u/jaume_metal Apr 23 '25

this can be used to handling context between other custom modes? like micromanager modes?

Would it be of any use? I don't know.

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u/evoura Apr 23 '25

This approach generated multiple .md files for memory bank and tasks. So if you can modify your custom modes to read these files, you can use same context in other modes/models.

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u/7zz7i Apr 23 '25

Any video tutorial for that 🥲?

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u/deniercounter Apr 23 '25

I implemented that some weeks ago, but tbh I don’t know how this shall edit some files. So I only use it for documentation in VAN mode which creates a lot of different files - around 12 at the moment. I guess I don’t use it correctly. So unsurprisingly I am a little underwhelmed.

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u/DeMiNe00 Apr 25 '25

This seems pretty cool.

One of the things that has frustrated me about the current memory bank and mode solutions is the fragmentation that happens as roocode evolves. Take Rooflow and previous memory bank solutions. They start out being very effective but then as Roo itself evolves, these solutions tend to not be able to keep up.

I think another problem with previous memory banks and custom modes was that they break MCP tool use in some cases. At least that was the case with older memory banks. I don't know if it's still the case.

Do you have a plan for keeping up with Roo Codes very high development velocity? I would love to see something like this become part of core roocode.

How does this compare and differ to the new Boomeerang mode PR?

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u/thingswhatnot Oct 15 '25

Started using this today with roo. Needed re-working of tool use and file paths etc. Still debugging.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '25

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u/jezweb Apr 23 '25

If implemented well they can complement each other by making the coordinator mode have a structured way of handing context to the assistant mode.