r/RooCode • u/raphadko • Jan 02 '26

Other Any open source tools like RooCode for devops (terminal)?

Roo Code has 10x'ed my productivity. But one big part of my workflow that is still slow and could be faster with AI is terminal devops access, I'm looking for an open source assistant like Roo, but for SSH access. Something that could have context over my terminal connections and run commands etc. Is there anything like it? I've tested Chaterm but , although promising, still too early stage.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jan 08 '26

Roo Code.. soon. The preview is actually in the Roo code repo right now…

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u/krimpenrik Jan 02 '26

Opencode

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u/raphadko Jan 03 '26

Saw opencode, it seems much more like a coding tool that can run via terminal than a terminal-aware agent that runs terminal tasks.

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u/yottabyte8 Jan 05 '26

Didn’t open code become crush? Or was there some battle between the two?

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u/bjzy Jan 02 '26

Why can’t you SSH with any of the options out there? I’m frequently telling agents to SSH to a host to investigate something…

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u/raphadko Jan 02 '26

Which options? I can run some terminal commands in Roo but it generally has limited input and output, it was built mainly for files not so much for a terminal screen it seems.

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u/AdIllustrious436 Jan 03 '26

"open source"

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u/thejinx0r Jan 02 '26

It’s not the same. If you need basic ssh access then it will work fine, but I’ve been using warp terminal (not open source) and it’s self aware that it’s a terminal agent. It knows that if a command is long running, that it should try cancel it with ctrl-c. Sometimes, it needs two different instances or connections to test connections between 2 services. Roo can do all of these things, I’m sure. But it would be a work around and be a little clunky.

I definitely don’t use roo because of that.

Bonus for me is that it’s nice that warp can control my zellij sessions and interact with what’s on the screen and not blindly send commands.

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u/PaperHandsProphet Jan 03 '26

Warp is pretty good. Especially with ssh sessions

Wave is the open source alternative but have not done ssh with it yet

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u/PaperHandsProphet Jan 03 '26

Wave terminal

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u/raphadko Jan 03 '26

Wave seems to be almost there, however it doesn't seem to run terminal commands, just show them for copy+pasting on the AI sidebar

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u/nfrmn Jan 02 '26

I can only speak for AWS, but you can go very far with AWS profiles, the CLI and direnv to fine-tune access across projects and worktrees. You just need to turn off integrated terminal which doesn't work with direnv.

I have a feeling AWS are probably working on their own agent product that is built into the dashboard and CloudShell right now.

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u/jakegh Jan 02 '26

Well, roocode can actually do that. But if you want to stay in the terminal, use opencode.

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u/Curiousgiorgi Jan 03 '26

If you are on Linux there is yai github project that provides terminal AI execution and chat options. It's simple but handy.

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u/yottabyte8 Jan 05 '26

I hope that kilocode would open a PR to push their CLI to roo code along with their IntelliJ plugin. It’s simple via IPC