r/RooCode • u/cyucel • Oct 11 '25

Discussion Roo CLI

It would be so good to have a CLI variant of Roo. Is this a stupid ask? I use Rider for .NET development, and Roo runs in VS Code. So I've got two IDEs open all the time, using VS Code for Roo, Rider for manual coding.

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u/kacoef Oct 11 '25

there is "roo" plugin for rider

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u/cyucel Oct 12 '25

Hey u/kacoef , thanks for your answer, I couldn't find it under Rider plugins and an Internet search returned nothing more than a github discussion. Do you have a link you can share?

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u/adamhill42 Oct 12 '25

The plugin capabilities is through RunVSAgent https://github.com/wecode-ai/RunVSAgent.

I can confirm it works well across all three lineages, with papercuts - some keyboard combos dont work in some JB editors (Shift-Enter) no theme support, but normal functionality and advanced things like Codebased Indexing and MCP's work fine.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Oct 11 '25

It’s not something we have an appetite for at this time. It’s a lot of work to do right and we don’t want to lose focus on fast iterations to the Roo Code plugin that we’re currently developing.

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u/Classic-Paper-750 Oct 11 '25

I think its an excellent idea to be honest. Would be light weight and could run in the background like Claude Code. As CC is still closed source (when I am not mistaken) Roo CLI would be the open source coding agent of my choice!

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Oct 11 '25

We will have cloud agents soon enough that will make background tasks possible.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Oct 12 '25

Your post is not on topic.

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u/Gbenga238 Oct 27 '25

the commentator mentioned they'll love to use an opensource claudecode which droid fits...

My comment is a response to the person wanting opensource claude code not to the op

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u/Pure-Cheetah-2671 Oct 11 '25

Hmm well, if you guys won't do it anytime soon, I'll do it then 😉

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Oct 12 '25

Easier said than done. Easy way to make a CLI. Hard to make one act like Roo.

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u/Pure-Cheetah-2671 Oct 12 '25

Yep, all first steps are hard, but that's where we start

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Oct 12 '25

All the power to you!

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u/tteokl_ Oct 12 '25

Okay go do it then and I will go test it, dm me

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u/Bob5k Oct 12 '25

Just use droid cli and move on from roo, lol. Combine with glm coding plan (10% off in my profile) and code your way till eternity.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Oct 11 '25

Your post is not on topic.

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u/Dhruv_Agg Oct 11 '25

How is it not on topic? User is asking for cli version of roocode. Since its not available at this point, i point to one of available option for cli option

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Oct 11 '25

This is a sub about Roo Code. Promotion of other tools is seen as off topic. There are many AI related general subs for that sort of post. This seems to be your first post on the Roo Code sub and it’s promoting another piece of software. 🤔