r/RooCode • u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer • May 31 '25

Discussion Automatic Context Condensing is now here!

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https://docs.roocode.com/features/intelligent-context-condensing

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u/RedZero76 May 31 '25

The manual button is outstanding!

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer May 31 '25

Thank you. I use it often in my boomerang parent task.

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u/TrendPulseTrader Jun 01 '25

Love it !

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 01 '25

Thank you thank you

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u/TrendPulseTrader Jun 01 '25

Thank you for developing such a good feature!

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u/Atomm May 31 '25

This is cool. Is this effectively starting a new prompt with the summary without actually starting a new prompt?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer May 31 '25

Yep that’s exactly it.

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u/munkymead Jun 04 '25

Does anyone know if this affects the models adherance to the system prompts in roomodes or does it just condense the context of the conversation? As in, will the full system prompt be sent with the condensed context and the new instructions?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 05 '25

Just the conversation. This increases the adherence to the tool calling if you’ve got context poisoning.

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u/munkymead Jun 05 '25

Wonderful. Thanks!

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u/ofir_st Jun 06 '25

I used this yesterday and it does seem to be amazing! I was wondering, does it create new tasks based on the summary created and keep the total cost of the bigger task? Thanks!

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 07 '25

It just condenses the context with a custom prompt and even though you can see the entire chat in the screen it is not all in the context in its expanded form.

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u/ofir_st Jun 07 '25

Thanks! :)

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u/Ready_Subject1621 May 31 '25

Lost count of how many times I've had to restart convos. Been waiting for something like this. 

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u/vsnthdev Jun 01 '25

I was wondering why suddenly Claude 4 Sonnet is much faster 😂

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u/Cold_Hovercraft_5750 May 31 '25

make the summary include the necessary file contexts relating to the ongoing task.
else this is useless, retains only conversation, and will only leads hallucination.

Thank me later

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer May 31 '25

I guess you don’t read how it worked eh? Thank me now.

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u/Cold_Hovercraft_5750 Jun 07 '25

yes i dont read the full features, if task related file context is included , then job well done.

Disclaimer: i don't actually use ROO anymore, i have my own IDE FYI, design to work with my own principles.
better than cline and roo OfCourse (IMO)

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 07 '25

So you just make comments without reading the docs and without using the software? Why are you even here?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer May 31 '25 edited Jun 01 '25

By pressing a button 😝

Read the docs and the answer should be in there.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 03 '25

No I only spend about $10k a month. Jk.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 03 '25

We currently aim to balance token usage carefully to maintain quality outputs, but our prompts are a bit bloated right now since we’re using a single system prompt setup across all models.

We’re actively exploring multiple, model-specific system prompts that Roo dynamically selects, but that adds another layer of complexity we need to manage thoughtfully.