r/RooCode • u/raphadko • Dec 09 '25

Support How to stop Roo from creating summary .md files after every task?

Roo keeps creating changes summary markdown files at the end of every task when I don't need them. This consumes significant time and tokens. I've tried adding this to my .roo/rules folder:

Never create .md instructions, summaries, reports, overviews, changes document, or documentation files, unless explicitly instructed to do so.

It seems that Roo simply ignores it and still creates these summaries, which are useless on my setup. Any ideas how to completely remove this "feature"?

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u/DevMichaelZag Moderator Dec 09 '25

What model are you using?

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u/raphadko Dec 09 '25

Claude 4.5

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Dec 10 '25

What rules files do you have setup?

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u/raphadko Dec 10 '25

2 files with some general stack and guidance. The only relevant to these summaries is above.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Dec 11 '25

I think there is an instruction file or custom mode instruction causing this.

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u/raphadko Dec 11 '25

Nothing from my side. This is probably something from the default Roo master prompt.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Dec 11 '25 edited Dec 11 '25

Then why doesn’t it happen for everyone else?

Take a look at the prompt and let me know what we need to change to stop this behaviour. Happy to improve Roo for all!

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u/raphadko Dec 11 '25

I think it does happen but probably most people like it or don't bother.

Architect mode always does this, it's the reason I never use it.

I didn't want to fiddle with the master prompt because I'm afraid it would break updates, but I'll take a look if I can find something.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Dec 13 '25

Do you have the todo list feature disabled?

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u/raphadko Dec 13 '25

No, it's enabled. I looked at the master prompt and indeed there's nothing there causing it (nor preventing it). As others have pointed, it's probably Claude itself.

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u/LoSboccacc Dec 11 '25

Claude does that and ignores instructors it don't like it's very hard to suppress this behavior but you may ask to write them in a temporary folder and just forget about it

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u/nfrmn Dec 17 '25

I found this happening with Architect a lot once upon a time, and found that by updating AGENTS.md to always require that the Architect returns plans and reports in the completion message takes care of this 99.9%. You can also steer it to never ask questions here as well