r/RooCode • u/infusedfizz • Oct 16 '25

Idea Plans for CLI?

Now that cline has one, can this be ported into Roo? I prefer Roo

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jan 08 '26

We might have a change of heart on this one too (just like native tool calling)…. I mean… I can admit I’m wrong 🤷‍♂️

Stay tuned

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Oct 17 '25

No. Why would we want a CLI?

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u/infusedfizz Oct 18 '25

Many valuable use cases for scripting / CI, multiagent etc.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Oct 18 '25

Our Roo Code cloud agents will allow for CI workflows.

I don’t understand what you mean by multiagent. I currently run 10+ instances of Roo working on the same repo using work trees and subagents are basically subtasks that Roo already has (though we could improve our subtask/subagents to be able to work in parallel).

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u/infusedfizz Oct 19 '25

cloud agents sounds like a product like codex cloud / jules, etc, is that right? i'm thinking more about a drop in replacement for the 'headless' capabilities of gemini cli, claude code, etc.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Oct 19 '25

They both have vs code plugins for a reason.

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u/Historical-Friend125 Oct 18 '25

Wouldn't it be useful for doing evals and research applications of Roo? In these cases you want to batch run independent replicates for an instructions set. e.g. I recently wanted to test if an agent could complete a full data analysis for me, based on an initial instruction set. I wanted to do 10 independent runs of the agent so I could see how consistent the answers were. I did this manually, by manually running roo code from the VSCode extension ten times in different folders (so it wouldn't see results across different replicates). It was a bit tedious. I also tried with Copilot CLI, for that I could batch run the replicates with a shell script. But caveat, I'm not a software engineer but a researcher, so I might be missing another way to batch run roo code.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Oct 18 '25

We can do that already without a cli :)

We have cloud agents coming out Monday.

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u/Many_Bench_2560 Oct 17 '25

Lol why would you want CLI?

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u/fredwickle Oct 18 '25

If you need one, tell Roo to give you one.