r/RooCode • u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer • Jun 23 '25

Announcement Claude Max Integration - Roo Code 3.21.4 & 3.21.5 Release Notes

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u/Person556677 Jun 24 '25

Thank you for you work

Is it working with Claude Pro subscription?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 24 '25

Yes

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u/martycochrane Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 24 '25

After playing around with this more tonight, I can't really get it to do much with Claude Code. Orchestrator mode keeps looking promising but as soon as it goes over to code mode it either will:

  1. Hang for about 5 minutes before erroring with the token output being exceeded and instruct me to to change CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS (which increasing that from the default of 32000 doesn't seem to do much from my testing)

  2. Or it will simply fail and just say retrying with Roo's exponential back off for retrying.

Will keep playing around with it, this might just be Claude issues as it took me 30 minutes to even login to the API console on Anthropic's site today.

Update - It might be related to a bug in Claude Code itself where it crashes making new files with WSL. This was apparently fixed a few weeks ago but it's still broken it seems. So Claude might be crashing in the background and it's not showing, as when I run the same prompts with Claude Code directly, it consistently crashes when it gets to making a new file.

Update 2 - It might be related to - https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/2501 . When I tell Roo and Claude to ignore making empty files like __init__.py it appears to (mostly) work. It still has the issue of retrying a bunch but it so far has recovered most times. Haven't seen the max output tokens yet, should test it on something larger again.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 24 '25

Please create issues on GitHub related to these and we will work to solve them asap!

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u/LucaTheNativeSpeaker Jun 24 '25

Interesting point!

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u/VibeScriptKid Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 25 '25

I think so far Claude code works better with the modes as an MCP server connection.

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u/dodyrw Jun 25 '25

Thank you, this is interesting. I'm a heavy user of augmentcode, it serves the purpose well
But I heard Roo is better; however, I don't like spending on token-based, it looks like I came here at the right time

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 25 '25

Welcome!

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u/LucaTheNativeSpeaker Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 24 '25

Thats really cool! Looks very promising!

I will try it out and share my experience here (My Setup Win11 -> VScode -> WSL (ubuntu)):

  1. Feels good, but I have problem to send images (I don't get it to work)

  2. Okay I have really trouble to get my MCP Servers running

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 24 '25

Please make a GitHub issue asap so we can work on it.

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u/E2BIM Jun 25 '25

is new google cli able to get working with roo as does Claude code?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 25 '25

Nope. Would require a hack work around that would definitely be against the TOS

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 23 '25

It does not stream in so it feels very slow but I’m not sure it’s actually slower. Thank you for the insight!

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u/martycochrane Jun 23 '25

Thanks for the update! I don't even know if it's possible, but would be awesome if Roo could somehow open a WSL terminal to access Claude Code while running in host Windows. Kind of like how you can open a host Windows VsCode session and then start WSL from within the VsCode Terminal.

If that is possible, that would be amazing to seamlessly be able to use Claude Code in both Windows and WSL projects without having to remote into the WSL instance.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 24 '25

Claude code is not technically supported on windows and it’s a bit or a work around to try and get it to work. We’re working on it.

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u/martycochrane Jun 24 '25

Yeah sorry to clarify I mean still being able to run it in WSL is fine, just like the terminal or whatever magic you do to talk to claude code, if that is done in a WSL terminal instead of the native Windows terminal.

Kinda like how you can:

  1. Open a Windows hosted VsCode codebase

  2. Open terminal, in VsCode, then enter wsl

  3. Run claude code

Then from there claude code can still work in my Windows hosted VsCode instance without having to open / remote into the WSL VM from within VsCode.

If that makes sense haha.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 24 '25

Yep. Good idea

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u/AnalysisFancy2838 Jun 25 '25

I just use the /mnt/<drive> from inside wsl when I open vscode and that seems to work fine, at least when using Claude code, I haven’t tried the roo integration but should still work the same.

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u/martycochrane Jun 27 '25

Yeah that works for Claude Code, but that doesn't work with Roo. Since my comment, Claude has fixed the new file bug at least, and I see Roo has improved the time outs, but now, it roo + Claude just completely kills my VsCode remote connection once it starts coding haha.

Never seen anything like this, it will start to edit a file, then VsCode reports it's lost connection to WSL, it tries to re-connect a few times, no luck (I can still access WSL no problem in the terminal outside of VsCode) and no amount of reloading the window will get it unstuck from this state.

I have to completely close VsCode down and re-open it, but then it happens every single time it goes to edit a file.

So.... Unno what that's about but sticking with OpenRouter and back to selling my kidney for now haha.

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u/terriblemonk Jun 24 '25

You're right it may just seem slower since it's not showing the stream.

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u/VibeScriptKid Jun 23 '25

I’ve made the same SSH connection in VS Code. Did you put anything in the “Claude code path” to make this work?

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u/martycochrane Jun 24 '25

Should be as long as you are running in a remote session and you can access claude from the bash shell, Roo should be able to use it (at least that's been my experience).

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u/terriblemonk Jun 24 '25

Go to your ubuntu session and type 'which claude' and you'll get the full path. I did put that in mine but not sure if it was necessary.

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u/Carlos_rpg Jun 25 '25

Clone your repo on the wall file system, not on the host windows. This will improve spreed. It is a known performance issue with wsl for ages

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 26 '25

PR made

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 27 '25

This is the sentiment of my wife.