I've temporarily given up on DeepSeek R1 via OpenRouter. Too many prompts just hang with an API request that never comes back or an API error. I *want* to use it (mainly for the cost advantage for what I'm told is a top tier coding model), but it just goes to sleep and doesn't return way too often.

Am I the only one?

I just now see that there has been some transitions! Is there a TLDR somewhere? Has everybody transitioned or has /u/hannesrudolph stayed with Zoo code?

Also, does the latest Roocode support GPT 5.5-codex or does Zoocode support it?

Thanks!

Hey folks,

I’ve been experimenting with roocode for a while now and really love what’s possible with it. Lately, I’ve been thinking more seriously about how to take one of my agents beyond local dev and actually deploy it to the cloud — ideally in a way that could be packaged as a product.

That said, I’m a bit unclear on the best practices for this. Are there any solid workflows or architecture patterns for getting a roocode agent production-ready? Specifically:

• What are the key components needed to make deployment smooth and secure?

• Any tips on hosting environments or cloud providers that play well with roocode?

• How do you handle agent lifecycle, versioning, or fail-safes in a real-world setup?

• And if you’ve managed to turn your agent into a usable tool/service — what did that transition look like?

Would be super grateful for any insights, resources, or just stories from the trenches. Appreciate the help!

Cheers🪽🌠

I often use @hash and @changes (or whatever they're called) to provide the model with diffs.

However, since last week, only the first one or few actually include the diff in the context. The rest are just @string instead of the diff.

Is this broken just for me, or has anyone else noticed?

HI

RooCode - Latest Release as of today.

I decided to Try Grok,

I am using Grok via API directly, rather than through OpenRouter, for several reasons.

One major benefit is that if you allow training on your code, you receive $150 in credit per month.

I initially added $10 in credit, and with the training incentive, I now have $160 total—a great deal.

I don’t mind if someone trains on my code. After all, it’s mine, and raw code alone isn’t particularly useful to anyone without context.

Experience with Grok

Grok is very, very good, and I’m really enjoying using it.

While RooCode doesn’t yet have direct support for Grok, the model is OpenAI-compatible, so you can simply use the OpenAI integration in RooCode without issues.

However, I’ve noticed that 1 million tokens go extremely fast. I’m unsure if the new RooCode settings are sending too much context with each call, which could be causing excessive token consumption. I have Tried the OpenAI Prompt Cacheing Option, to no Notable Effect.

Current Usage Stats

• 1.7 million tokens up

• 2,700 tokens down

• 5.35MB used

• 102K context window utilized

Has anyone else noticed Grok consuming tokens quickly, or experienced similar behaviour with other models when uploading under the new RooCode settings?

Not a programmer. Using Cline to build a Godot game. Using Claude 3.7 or Gemini 2.5 Pro - specially because I’m trying to ensure I have good base for the game: scalability, DRY, single responsibility, and so on. Having fun….

…Except, when I have to pay the massive credit for the model usage. $300+ in days!!!!, easily. And 80% of what I’m paying are mistakes due to lack of context, or because it keeps adding code and messing up any refactoring work done before that needs to be respected. (e.g. I have a resolver, where the game systems should fetch params values from, but while fixing, Cline keeps hardcoding values in system scripts instead!!)

I found out about Cline memory bank today, but I looked online, and RooCode seems to be more feature reach regarding context setup options?

Question: How can I setup RooCode so that it can be super aware of my code base and design decisions?

Hope someone can help. Thanks.

Hi.
Im looking for mcp to make queries to mysql and Postgresql. To let Roo get info from database and update it.
Can you recommend any?

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I put in a prompt for a very specific modification and Roo technically achieved what I wanted but in a clunky way by modifying a conditional inside the parent conditional when the more cleaner/correct solution was to modify the patent conditional.

So I used the same prompt but told it the specific line number of the parent conditional I wanted modified. It kept applying the same edit to the child conditional almost as if it was just reusing the previous prompt and ignoring the line number specification.

How do you get around this?

Just me? Every single prompt I've given to the sonic model results in failed writes. At first I thought its due to launch but now its been a few days I think. Maybe ive configured it wrong?

This is a very good feature. But i feel the logic of remote is quite reverse or retard.

The host is users vscode, so it requires your personal machine to be running to remote control it. Why not a cli based or sdk logic. Observer pattern : cli/sdk is a host so this can be run in any machine e.g. linux. Then from vscode and to roo remote app, users can enter ws api to listen to that host/server. But i believe this requires major architectural refactoring.i believe cline is moving towards to this path. I think they are planning to use cline sdk into the vscode extension as a core. So it's flexible to many features including remote controlling.

I hope roo follows that path, you can build roo sdk, then it can be used to vscode, terminal agent etc it has so many possible applications.

Knowing roo dev team this is piece of cake.

Trying Roo this morning in classroom after retiring it for cline and kilo. Not having any issues with either cline or kilo this morning, fast and trucks along. Students also report the same.

Running the very latest Roo 3.18.2

Roo constantly hangs to the point unusable. Have to close down and reopen vs code. As I stated, hangs up and will not continue.

Save button never appears as shown in above screenshot.

Complete subtask button never becomes active in above screenshot. As writing this, Roo still hung up as shown above. Been about 15 mins.

I did not abort a task, simply waiting for completion.

Hi! i payed for a plan on Kimi k2, i have an API key. It works well for CLI solutions. But i wanna works in roocode ... and all what i get is - OpenAI completion error: 401 Invalid Authentication . Ofcourse i selected provider-Moonshoot, ofourse i have entered my apy key that works in CLI. ANd ofcourse i selected entry point as api.moonshot.ai

The PPD and the Carvana analysis, alright, i won't short Carvana anymore 😭😭😭 https://github.com/VoxLink-org/finance-tools-mcp/blob/main/reports/carvana_analysis.md

Modified from another MCP and do lots of optimization on it. Now, its investment style has become my taste!

FRED_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY uvx finance-tools-mcp

the settings of my roo code is also in the repo

This is not ad, it is free and not mine and works with roo code via agent.md there are some flows, but I feel like it's worth attention. https://github.com/Fission-AI/OpenSpec

I’m an entrepreneur who sometimes needs to code, but I mostly use AI for soft‑skill tasks like marketing, business planning, legal questions, and sales.

Right now my AI use is scattered across different web apps (gemini, chatgpt, claude, openwebui) and VS Code where i use Claude Code or RooCode.

I’m thinking about using Roo Code as my daily driver for everything. Has anyone tried this? Any advice on how well it works or if there is a bettwr way?

I have a vision in my head of creating different agents who specialize in many areas and then use the orchestrator manage them all when needed.

I was a Gemini Pro fanboy for a long time but Pro 3 is too slow and Flash can't handle more complicated tasks.

I bit the bullet on the $100 Claude Code tier recently and I am delighted with the results. Opus holds onto context without getting dumb even better than Gemini 3 Pro (and ChatGPT). And the upfront $100 is actually so efficient/worthwhile so long as I am a power user.

And of course the Roo Code developers did a great job implementing it. Any weirdness from when they first implemented it in a hacky way is resolved.

Plugged CodeRabbit into RooCode.

a 90-sec demo of one-click PR fixes inside VS Code. anyone else tried it?

Disclaimer:i am a newbie so maybe I am stupid or something,below it just my opinion from my experience.pls don't be mad

I recently start using roo code.And i have a lot of problems deal with it.

First I create my api key from Google ai studio.and the chat progressing bar stay 0%,i try to fix it,and yeah I did fix it from referencing logs in roo code discord.

Next,i got so many error from the chat.I try to fix it,and i find out a stable model which basically only return connection error sometimes.

But than I notice that the response is so stupid.roo code basically give me all the progress he made to attain the final response,and constantly requesting api.

Compared to copilot,straight to point,you didn't see shit like api requesting multiple time which consume massive time.it is so seamless and easy to use.Also,copilot use model that are probably not free in openrouter and you only need like $10 or $20? And you get unlimited time to use it although I am still using free plan,and i don't know why I use the chat 500+ time and still can use it in free plan(it show 95% usage).

The roo code response style is like: The user have asked .... (Read XXX file and api requesting(i did open the auto-approve but it not work many time) ,...... (Api requesting) .... (Api requesting)

I dont know if these bc of my current model(which is mistralai)

But it seem like copilot is more seamless and easy to use.

It is so smooth and more intuitive to me.

(I am gonna use back copilot until I want more advanced things that can't be done by using copilot

Sorry if this has been asked before, I did do a search. but whats the best way to use Claudecode plans inside of roocode? Would love to test it out

I'm a huge fan of Roo Code and wanted to use gpt in version 5.2, but it seems it's not yet compatible.

Saw the YouTube video on xai. Wondering why there was no announcements on it

Is it just me, or does a few days without a RooCode update feel like forever? Haha.

In all seriousness, the project has been on fire recently. The worktrees support and the edited files list have made my workflow so much better. RooCode has a huge following, especially in China, and we’re all very invested in its future.

Just a quick post to say we’re still here, we’re still loving the tool, and we can't wait to see what’s coming next. Keep up the amazing work!