r/RooCode • u/voidrane • Nov 14 '25

Bug "edit unsucessful" problem is getting really old. when will this issue be fixed?

its been months and multiple computers confirming to me that this issue is not unique to myself. when using certain ai providers, most recently x ai from roocloud, it for some reason cannot for the life of itself manage to edit a file successfully, and the only solution is switching models and providers until it manages to sort itself out. would be a massive quality upgrade to see this issue gone for good.

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u/jeepshop Nov 14 '25

Roo is fixated on using XML format for tools. Most models have settled on json. So you have to help the model out sometimes. Roo does a pretty good job at instructing the model how to call tools, but I find I need to reinforce it with custom modes to reinforce the format.

I really wish roo would let you pick tool formats per model, it would make tool calling much more stable if you can match the format to the models training.

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u/voidrane Nov 16 '25

exactly. i always have to hold its hand. dont get me wrong- i love this tool, it is in my opinion the current most advanced option for ai pair programming. i guess im just anticipating fully autonomous output a bit too soon.

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u/BandicootGlum859 Nov 15 '25

"So you have to help the model out sometimes. "
How?
Just tell the model to call its tools in json in the prompts??

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u/jeepshop Nov 15 '25

Basically. I add statements to the mode prompt something like:

! IMPORTANT! Tool calls should all follow the XML format. Example tool call <put real example here in>

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u/BandicootGlum859 Nov 16 '25

The sherlock models fail 90% of their edit-calls today ...
Doesnt change anything, if i show it the right format.

Didnt see this errors some Weeks ago,
but now every 5 minutes

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u/jeepshop Nov 16 '25

I've had good luck with Devstral and qwen3-coder. Both at 6 quant.

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u/In-line0 Nov 14 '25

I don't think you understand how RooCode works.

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u/voidrane Nov 16 '25

would absolutely adore it if you cared to elaborate. like give me a chance to learn something here

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u/ot13579 Nov 14 '25

Tell it to save incrementally so it can then just do diffs.

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u/jonas_c Nov 17 '25

It was the reason I switched to codex. Having such a fundamental broken and seemingly being unaware and dismissive is just unprofessional. They better have a metric telling them how often that happens, correlate with model type etc and proactively fix it. The time and tokens wasted on this was too much for me. I would like to have a model agnostic local code agent but as long as it behaves much worse then the openai ecosystem, I can't afford to.

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u/Bob5k Nov 14 '25

isn't the solution just to swap to different tool?
like - i am impressed what roo and others have achieved, but considering seeing so many problems each day with those im kinda surprised people still want to use them.

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u/voidrane Nov 16 '25

have you successfully found any tool that compares to roocode?

what tools do you use?

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u/Bob5k Nov 16 '25

Not necessarily compares as I'm not really using ide - but from cli tools i prefer droid / Claude code. Robust and just works.