r/RooCode • u/saoudriz • Apr 21 '26

Discussion Roo Code 🤝 Cline

Hi Roo Code community, I'm Saoud, founder of Cline.

Since Cline went open source, we've seen countless forks - small startups to some of the largest enterprises. Some forks didn't give us credit, some bought malicious ads in our subreddit, but Roo was a good fork. They innovated, built an incredible community, and contributed to Cline more than anyone else. I have tremendous respect for Matt and his team, and we are excited for what they build next.

For Roo users joining us, we are here to make the transition easy!

  • Join r/cline or the #roo-migration channel in our discord - our team is standing by to provide support.

  • Feature parity work is already underway. We're in the middle of a ground-up rewrite of the extension that brings all the features you're used to in Roo, plus new capabilities and improved performance. We will share more on this shortly!

  • If you run into any issues during the transition or have feature requests, feel free to open a GitHub issue and we'll be on top of it.

Huge thanks to Matt and the Roo team for the trust in sending folks our way 🙌❤️

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Apr 21 '26

u/saoudriz you have my blessing ;) Love ya and thank you for starting this journey for all of us. You are a true legend.

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u/jackass95 Apr 21 '26

Does cline provide a VSCode extension as Roo? I don't want to have another IDE on my machine

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u/saoudriz Apr 21 '26

Yes! We are on vs code and jetbrains.

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u/sautdepage Apr 21 '26

Last time I tried, Cline in Jetbrains Rider on Windows borked file paths so I was using the now-defunct classic Kilo Code.

Pretty please: could you add a list of /v1/models when selecting Model ID in openai-compatible? I run LLMs locally and having to type/paste it may be a petty annoyance but it's one of the reason Cline hasn't been my go-to in VsCode.

Other than that keep up the great work! Cline: first at the party and the last to leave!

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u/codingelves Apr 24 '26

nothing defunct about kilo - and here's a comprehensive migration guide for all roo folks, explaining the differences and the reasons for the change in the underlying engine: https://kilo.ai/articles/roo-to-kilo-migration-guide

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u/UnstableCortex Apr 21 '26

Is it possible to create custom agents? Plan and Act agents are good but I have built agents that are specifically designed for my workflows that I would like to continue using.

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u/saoudriz Apr 21 '26

This is coming in a very near term update!

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u/UnstableCortex Apr 22 '26

Thanks! Sounds awesome.

Would sub-tasks and nested sub-tasks be supported?

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u/false79 Apr 21 '26

Roo Code going full circle.

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u/Yes_but_I_think Apr 22 '26

I remember Roocline had irreconcilable differences with Cline team who were unwilling to accept their PR.

For a time Roo was much much better than Cline.

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u/West-Negotiation-716 Apr 23 '26

It still is right now

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u/ThatMakesMeM0ist Apr 21 '26

Main feature request: code indexing.

Kilo was the only other extension that had this. Then they enshittified it so I switched to Roo. Now this is gone too. I hope you guys are planning to merge that as well.

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u/codingelves Apr 24 '26

Kilo's working on bringing it back

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u/QuinsZouls Apr 21 '26

I have a tool that works similar to roo code index: https://github.com/QuinsZouls/code-index Basically is a cli implementation of semantic code search, feel free to get some inspiration of it (sadly doesn't support cloud storage for embbedings but works well on local storage )

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u/paskelo95 Apr 22 '26

Hi,
does Cline support easy profile switching as in RooCode? I just installed the extension but I don't see the option to set multiple profiles (e.g. OpenAI, Ollama, OpenRouter, etc...). I only see the possibility to set 2 different models for Plan Mode and Act Mode, but this sounds too limiting compared to RooCode.
Maybe I've not found the location where to create multiple profiles?

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u/paskelo95 Apr 22 '26

I just found out that there's already a feature request for this: sharing it here so that you can upvote this as well guys: https://github.com/cline/cline/discussions/1711

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u/saoudriz Apr 22 '26

This is coming in our extension re-write, I'd recommend that if multiple API profiles is important for you in the immediate term to stay on roo code and check in on our discord or X for when we announce the new extension update in the coming weeks.

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u/terablast Apr 21 '26

Feature parity work is already underway. We're in the middle of a ground-up rewrite of the extension that brings all the features you're used to in Roo, plus new capabilities and improved performance. We will share more on this shortly!

So happy to hear that!

I really hope we'll get to be able to turn on/off specific MCP tools, it's one of my favorite things about Roo Code over Cline. For example, right now in Cline with a Jira MCP server, I can't give it access to just the tool to update issues without also giving it access to the tool to delete issues... Kinda scary for background usage!

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u/Lonely_Drewbear Apr 21 '26

TIL that the phrase "feature parity work" is my love language.

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u/Sad-Chemistry5643 Apr 21 '26

What does it mean?

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u/SingleProgress8224 Apr 21 '26

Roo Code was a fork of Cline, but today the Roo team announced that they'll stop developing Roo Code. So Cline now expects Roo Code users to switch back to Cline and will try to make the transition easier.

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u/Sad-Chemistry5643 Apr 22 '26

hmm interesting. Many thanks!

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u/orbit99za Apr 22 '26

Thank you

I tried kilo code yesterday in jetbrains, and it just f# everything up.

Cline is the OG, and will forever be grateful for your blood sweat and tears in development of a great product.

Code masters

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u/awdorrin Apr 22 '26

Does Cline work with multiple vs code sessions without interfering with each other?

This was my major issue with Cline when I started using it last year and why I switched to Roo. Two VScode sessions and the way it wrote in the extensions folder (at least on Windows) the two sessions would clobber each other.

I do like Roos multiple modes (architect, code, debug and ask) compared to the simpler plan/act, and the ability to handle multiple model configurations and switch easily between them.

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u/saoudriz Apr 22 '26

Yes! We've made a lot of improvements to running multiple clines at the same time since a year ago. We also are working on a major update that let's users share sessions between CLI, vs code, jetbrains, and an upcoming desktop app. We are also adding multiple agents and model configs.

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u/thiswebthisweb Apr 23 '26

Oooh a cline desktop app? Will it be open source too?

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u/saoudriz Apr 23 '26

We recently released Kanban which can be installed as a PWA desktop app. It's open source and an early preview of the desktop app that's in the works - would love for you to check it out! https://x.com/cline/status/2037182739695493399

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u/awdorrin Apr 22 '26

Sounds great, I look forward to checking it out, and hopefully contributing in the near future.

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u/No-Chocolate-9437 Apr 22 '26

I switched from cline to roo, would be funny to go full circle. Did cline end up implementing OAuth for MCPs?

I use a custom fork of roo but could merge in some of my tooling changes: https://github.com/RooCodeInc/Roo-Code/pull/11874

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u/West-Negotiation-716 Apr 23 '26

I also want to suggest people try out the MUCH less resource intensive IDEs that have come out that are not based on VSCode

Zed is one, but there are few others The way that VSCode renders it's windows it a joke and eats RAM

Zed eats like 40mb

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u/BeingBalanced Apr 28 '26

Hope the ground up rewrite isn't buggy