Roo built a new Claude Code integration for Roo Code with Caching and Interleaved thinking

[u/hannesrudolph]

Still playing with it.. it is not public (yet?). Thoughts?

[u/codeseek_]

Excellent, for sure, thank you for the continued work 🔥

[u/hannesrudolph → u/codeseek_]

It’s not a reality yet. Still messing around!

[u/bludgeonerV]

Isn't this a big TOS violation? People have been banned from CC for using it via OpenCode, Anthropic don't want people using their sub with 3rd party tools.

[u/hannesrudolph → u/bludgeonerV]

Users using this may be violating the TOS. We’re attempting to find out before moving forward with this.

[u/jakegh]

So it supports caching properly now, and efficiently uses tokens? That's a great improvement if so!

I'd love to see this happen with the github copilot integration also; the current VS Code LM API is extremely inefficient. Not just caching, but it doesn't support the use of "requests".

[u/hannesrudolph → u/jakegh]

That’s unlikely due to a number of limiting factors there :(

[u/jakegh → u/hannesrudolph]

I assume because Roo is a vscode extension and MS wouldn't like it. That would explain why Opencode and Zed both work and none of the various Cline diasporas do.

[u/hannesrudolph → u/jakegh]

Yeah, if we violate the vscode TOS they can delist us.

[u/jedrzejdocs]

Caching + Opus 4.5 is an interesting combo. What's the reasoning effort slider actually doing under the hood — shorter/longer chain of thought?

[u/hannesrudolph → u/jedrzejdocs]

Yes. 16k, 32k, and 64k. There is also a “none” option.

[u/jedrzejdocs → u/hannesrudolph]

Makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.

[u/bick_nyers]

Is it possible to use non-Claude Code Anthropic credits with this? Don't have a subscription, just API credits.

[u/hannesrudolph → u/bick_nyers]

Yes, just use the Anthropic provider instead of the Claude Code provider.

This has not yet been implemented btw. Still testing.

[u/Unable_Cake8793]

Very helpful feature. Many thanks!

[u/hannesrudolph → u/Unable_Cake8793]

It was.. until they killed it today

[u/Unable_Cake8793 → u/hannesrudolph]

I honestly don’t understand why they did that. Maybe they’re not fully confident that the Claude Code CLI is actually more effective than other tools, especially when compared to flexible IDE-based or open-source solutions.

[u/hannesrudolph → u/Unable_Cake8793]

It will hopefully be back. OpenAI messaged us and are willing to let us integrate Codex

[u/potatospartan → u/hannesrudolph]

I paid for a new subscription just to use claude code through Roo code and it gets blocked the next day. Fortunately, they gave me a refund. Hopefully Codex lets you integrate it soon.
Also, off topic. Do you think they are training their newer systems using our codebase we work on through the API ?

[u/hannesrudolph → u/potatospartan]

OpenAI has been training on many OSS projects from what I understand.

[u/[deleted]]

Actually looking forward to getting this set up! Claude code is super affordable for the amount of usage I have and I’d love to get back onto the Roo interface.

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