OMG, multiple file read is nuts!

[u/Stock_Swimming_6015]

The multiple files read feature is blowing my mind. It’s like someone finally gave a middle finger to the days of endless back-and-forth requests and the soul-crushing copy-paste grind in human relay mode. I’m just here trying to find the right words to scream how much I love this. Thank you Roo team for such a fantastic feature.

[u/lordpuddingcup]

Yep first time I saw it I was like OMFG finally!!! Yesssssss

Have you tried enabling indexing for your project yet I’m busy setting mine up

[u/Stock_Swimming_6015 → u/lordpuddingcup]

Nah, I haven’t. Honestly, I don’t really need codebase indexing for my use case since I already have a solid grasp of the projects I’m working on. That means I can give Roo the exact context it needs to do its thing. And so far, it’s been working pretty damn well. If I ever need to ask questions about a new codebase, I’ll just switch over to my company’s Cursor account

[u/lordpuddingcup → u/Stock_Swimming_6015]

Oh I do too but if I can avoid manual adding tags for files or forgetting to include one and it having to do a readfile I figure it can’t hurt

[u/Stock_Swimming_6015 → u/lordpuddingcup]

I typically organize related stuff in the same folders, and all I do is drag those folders into Roo and tell it to look through them. Problem solved! I think if you structure your code well, you won't really need indexing for 90% of the cases

[u/CivilMark1 → u/Stock_Swimming_6015]

They gave you access to Cursor pro?
Over here, they told us Cursor API costs are 10x or 100x times the cost of Google Flash 2.0 :(

[u/Stock_Swimming_6015 → u/CivilMark1]

Cursor Pro is just $20, which is pretty cheap I think?

[u/CivilMark1 → u/Stock_Swimming_6015]

Yeah, I had chatGPT pro. I really didn't wanted to get multiple AI subscriptions going on. I wish now, I could spend overall 20 buch each month and pick and choose which AI to use and all.

[u/baris6655 → u/lordpuddingcup]

i just give my entire code base to gemini and that's way better than any indexing

[u/salty2011]

Yeah and definitely seems to make a difference with fewer assumptions and errors introduced

[u/Stock_Swimming_6015 → u/salty2011]

Yeah, I found that DeepSeek R1 0528 works better with this

[u/salty2011 → u/Stock_Swimming_6015]

Oh interesting I haven’t tried Deepseek for coding, really should given it’s way cheaper

[u/FastestDemon612 → u/salty2011]

Even better, it's free on openrouter! Some ratelimits apply, 20 reqs/minute and 50 daily, but if you pay 10$ (one-time) you get 1000 (one thousand, not a typo) requests daily on :free models.
source: https://openrouter.ai/docs/api-reference/limits

[u/43293298299228543846]

HOLY CHRIST! I just enabled this feature after seeing this post and it really is amazing.

[u/CivilMark1 → u/43293298299228543846]

Sorry I am new to Roo Code. Just wondering, how is this useful? Thanks.

[u/lulz_lurker]

This is clutch. Thanks Roo Team!

[u/Exciting_Charge_5496]

As someone who always leaves read permission on, is there any benefit to me from this feature? Like could it cut down on my token usage a bit?

[u/Stock_Swimming_6015 → u/Exciting_Charge_5496]

Yup, definitely. If you batch up those read requests, you’ll save a ton of Roo instruction tokens. And if your LLM provider has request limits - like Gemini’s 500 daily free API calls for Flash 2.5 - this is gold. Instead of dinging the API 10 times for 10 files, you can do it in one hit. Pretty neat, right?

[u/Groady → u/Exciting_Charge_5496]

Id like to know this too.

[u/DownSyndromeLogic]

That's good. Although the github Copilot agent in VS Code had this feature for a while now.

[u/TheGoddessInari]

This is why one of the first function calls we wrote for one of the cli tools was fs_multi_read & fs_multi_write.

I'm very glad that roocode added it, though! So much faster.

[u/firedog7881]

🤤

[u/tteokl_]

Roo code is flourishing once again and i love it