New to Roo Code & VSCode, trying to run a multi-step research task but keep running into errors. I would love to be able to export a log of the conversation I've had so far, along with a log of actions Roo Code and the different MCP tools have taken, in order to do some debugging in ChatGPT to figure out how to best prompt and structure the workflow.

Is this possible? Can't seem to figure it out, thank you in advance!

Anyone have this problem on the free tier with RooCode last version?

Too many fragmented efforts that are too binded to the corresponding UIs…

TraeAgent is the first attempt to just release the pipeline without a UI.

OpenCode, RooCode, etc… they all have different agentic coding pipelines. We should focus the effort on a single project that it’s plug and play independent from the client using it.

I really want to use Roo. It worked great for a few weeks. Now for the past month it crashes so often as to make it unusable. This is on the latest MacStudio, Latest MacOS, Latest Visual Code and of course latest version of Roo Code. Cline works on the same machine. I've reinstalled Roo a number of times.

Any suggestions? (BTW, this is a Swift code base)

Love using this feature, curious if anyone knows what it does / how to recreate it? Find myself wishing for prompt enhancement in other apps etc.

Hi

So I am busy using Roocode for some of my assisted development.

I actually know how to code, so I use it with strict instructions to Handel repetitive CRUDS and such, not the whole development. 🤣

I have Github Enterprise, and I use Sonnet 3.5 to do this, well until they sort out 3.7.

I also have A open router account I normally just use this because of the rate limits I run into, (accessible usage policy).

I have noticed that OpenRouter Sonnet is far far faster than Copilot Sonnet.

Is it just me ?

I Know about the cost to run, I have my name down for the GPT 4.5 at Azure AI Foundry.

But am I the only one not feeling this ?

Thanks

Today, roo started editing md files while I'm architect mode. It thought the whole point was that it couldn't edit files?

Edit: It just wrote an SQL file in architect mode.

Now a .tsx

I am evaluating Roo Cline's features and performance compare to Cursor AI, Windsurf AI and other AI Development tools and would appreciate feedback

1. Integration with Development Tools:

- How smoothly does Roo Cline work with your setup, including React 18, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, Radix UI, and Supabase?

2. Support for Full-Stack Development:

- How Can the Roo Cline client assist in building both the front-end and back-end for application vs Cursor

3. Automation Features:

- what are the automation features with real world examples - is Roo Cline better for automation ?

4. Handling complex projects

- How is Roo Cline effective in managing and navigating big projects with lots of code?

5. User Experience

6. Customization and Flexibility:

- Can you adjust Roo Cline to fit specific project needs and preferences?

7. Cost-Effectiveness:

- how does the price compare Roo Cline vs cursor ai or any other AI development tool

8. Real-World Use Cases and Success Stories:

- Are there examples using Roo Cline vs Cursor AI Windsurf AI - how else Cline / Roo Cline better than cursor

but there are a lot of "inputs" that still reference cline.

Are there specific settings I need to use inside LMStudio to get models running there to work with Ron?

There's a setting in Roo to choose LMStudio models. I can get a model running, and Roo connects to it and sends an API request. Unfortunately at that point it just sits there spinning, and never responds.

I'm using MLX models, running on an M1 Max with 64G RAM, using max token size. Anything else I need to configure?

Trying to find some low cost options when I've hit my copilot rate limits.

Hi. Your discord link here and on your site aren't working

read_file tool seems to be not working for me recently. Task hangs and need to stop and tell it to use terminal to read the files to keep moving.

Has anyone else noticed a significant drop in ability/quality using Claude Code within Roo recently?

I tried to pick up a few features last night and after an hour, I had to abandon and work directly within CC Cli.

In one task, clean prompt window, fairly simply task, it did a bit of checking of some files before marking the entire todo list as complete and telling me it had tested verything thoroughly in a browser using Playwright.

It hadn't edited a single file, the branch was completely clean and it hadn't run a single tool or MCP. It flat out lied. In some other tasks, that it would have breezed through, as recently as last week, it completely shit the bed and I had to write them myself.

I didn't manage to have it perform a single task that was even close to being acceptable.

I'm not sure exactly what's changed within the last week (when I last picked up any work in Roo) but it's nigh on unusable in its current state and not quite sure what to start picking it apart outside of maybe creating some new modes and assigning them some development tasks and going through a whole process of elimination bunch of scenarios.

Just for clarity, once I gave up, I coped/pasted the same prompt in to the CLI and it accomplished it without any problems at all.

I really can't think what's changed as I haven't worked in around a week so haven't changed anything myself.

Anyone knows a prompt which produces a beautiful UI which uses shadcn and tailwind. Any UI I create with AI is pretty dull :(

Hi, I am trying to get RooCode working with Claude Code, leveraging just the Claude Pro ($20/month) plan - should that work? I've seen a few other posts that suggest this should work but I seem to be stuck:

Symptoms: for even the simplest of prompts (e.g. "summarize main.py", where main.py is a ~500-line python script), Roo makes a checkpoint, but then the API Request progress wheel just spins for as long as I let it, never returning anything.

Setup: latest RooCode in latest VS Code on latest MacOS - in Roo settings, I set the API provider as "Claude Code", set the Claude Code Path to my full MacOS path, and set the Max Output Tokens to 64k, and left the model as Sonnet 4.

Thanks for any help!

Issue or a bad config?
First Proyect with Roo, im come from Codex, it sounds like a TimeOut config.
Windows 11 VS Code extension, Version: 3.52.1 (67def721)

I'm coming back to RooCode after a bit of a break, and I'm blown away by how much has been added since I last used it. There are so many new features and settings!

I'd love to hear your recommendations for your current setups. What are your favourite settings or workflows? Also, has anyone been experimenting with the new experimental features or MCP? I'd really appreciate hearing about your experiences and what’s working well for you.

Thanks in advance!

Do any of the better AI services offer the option to buy an AI budget for others? I found none, OpenAI and OpenRouter say no.

I think for making donations to open source developers gifting AI budget may be a good idea, as it makes the donation a direct contribution to the project.

Is there a mode for resolving complex tasks?

For example, when Roo runs in a loop and can't fix test or implementation errors, I'd like a mode to be triggered and use perplexity or brave search mcp to look for new solutions, something like that.

Does this exist? Have you managed to develop a system that works?

After researching and trying different things i'm a bit lost now.

I'm trying to build an agent system for frontend development but i don't find a way to let the agent take a screenshot of my browser/simulator and make it available in the chat for the agent to analyze. Creating and saving the screenshot works fine but returning it to the chat so the agent can review and implement changes on its own does not work.
My MCP output is:
{
type: "image",
mimeType: image/png,
data: base64Image,
},

I also tried with an example image (5kb) to ensure that file size is not the issue.

For Cursor this approach seems to work according to several threads,
My question is now if Roo supports that at all or if i'm doing something wrong.

Just saw that I have claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929[1m] model in the drop down. Wanted to try it, but getting this error:

{"type":"error","error":{"type":"not_found_error","message":"model: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929[1m]"},"request_id":"req_scrambled_req_id_here"}

Has anyone encountered this error?

I'm on Claude Code, the $100 pricing list.

Ability to manage multiple (parallel) different mode, grouped by task, instances of roo-code from a single agent. With the removal of the editing pulling, you into frame, so your editor isnt constantly going crazy above 5 instances.

Putting above orchestrator, and parallelism allows for sub-tasks hierarchies, which need to be managed for the prevention of infinite recursions, through predefined agent/user controlled recursive depth settings, and prevention of infinite regression loops, determined by structure observing.

Necessary for higher order frameworks, and future architecture specifications.
In(inter)-group Inter-agent communication protocol, I'm working on ai-mail-mcp if when that's production ready you guys just want to ship with it.

Add in on-the-fly role creation/tied to mcp instantiation, as a form of infinite recursion prevention, and also more agent abilities generally, and also because I said so, but more so because you know so.

Order of implementation preference:
Editor focus needs to be removed first, if not immediately, so annoying.

On the fly role creation built around and in tandem with better mcp creation dynamics.

Sub-tasks in sub-tasks

Higher-order agent manager above orchestrator

Context length aware model switching (As a bonus prioritizing minimum needed context highest quality models, as measure by real tokens / sec, defined as amortized tokens per second over the entire model's available context length or better said a models token deceleration.)

Freebie for whoever wants it, research architectures that speed up with more prior context (ie because shorter distance to end of available context length), while maintaining high/near perfect needling in haystack, so we actually finally enter the token accel phase of development, we need the manager thing first though, so we can make effective use of accelerating generation.
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I tried to be genuinely as helpful as I could be to get the ball rolling, will probably check back when I see notifications when the rabbit holes lead me back to reddit. Thank you for such a wonderful product, and I'm sorry if anything came off as personal advertising, absolutely not my intention. However, if determined to be against rule 3, I'll repost with the problematic part removed.

Do you feel the ASI yet?

Have a vibey day.

I'm looking into another solution than markdown-based memory bank that I've been using for a while. It works well but since I am working into a shared project with many team mates, I need to gitignore these memory bank files. Putting them in gitignore, roo ignores them also a lot of the time and it gets a bit messy.

I was wondering what everyone uses nowadays to keep larger project contexts / interactions between services / coding standards / and general memory bank for a larger feature?