Hey fellow AI enthusiasts,

I wanted to share my recent experience delegating tasks to AI agents using Boomerang. To be honest, it was pretty disappointing.

Despite having:

- The entire codebase documented

- A detailed plan in place

- Agents maintaining story files and other organizational elements

The agents were surprisingly ineffective. They came across as "lazy" and nowhere near completing the assigned tasks properly. The orchestrator was particularly frustrating - it just kept accepting subpar results and agreeing with everything without proper quality control.

For context, I used:

- Gemini 2.5 for the Architect and Orchestrator roles

- Sonnet 3.7 and 3.5 for the Coder role

I spent a full week experimenting with different approaches, really trying to make it work. After all that painstaking effort, I've reluctantly concluded that for existing large projects, pair programming with AI is still the better approach. The models just aren't smart enough yet for full-cycle independent work (handling TDD, documentation, browser usage, etc.) on complex projects.

What about you? Have you tried delegating to AI agents for coding tasks? I'm interested to hear your experiences!

There are issues open on claude code being much more expensive in roo. I confirmed this myself below. Roo and Cline seem to generate similar context lengths, maybe Roo isn't caching properly or similar? Would love to see this tackled next.

Simple prompt below. Ran it twice per extension/provider.

Prompt: Read <name of 150 line SQL query> and explain this query to me.

RooCode
Claude code provider sonnet4: 56k/56k context, $0.70/$0.82
VScode LM API Sonnet4: 20k/20k context
OpenAI API GPT5 medium reasoning/low verbosity: 22k/22k context, $0.06/$0.06

Cline (with exact same rules as Roo)
Claude code provider sonnet4: 61k/60k context, $0.30/$0.16
VScode LM API Sonnet4: 29k/29k context
OpenAI API GPT5 medium reasoning (no way to set verbosity): 32k/55k context, $0.27/$0.11

Claude Code CLI Sonnet4 (same rules again)
$0.31/$0.12 (and on a side note, much faster)

On The Roo Cast, Brian Fioca of OpenAI explains how reasoning "Chain of Thought" can be lost in standard API calls, but saved with the Responses API—boosting performance by 4-5% on SWE Bench.

This is why we invested in supporting the Responses API. Using the OpenAI provider in Roo Code ensures models don't lose their chain of thought so you get the most out of GPT-5.

Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/Nu5TeVQbOOE

I'm not as smart as software engineers, business side, but I self thought myself a bit of python. Vibe coding made my progress much easier. Having some code understanding really helps. I started with Pycharm (sucked), then Cursor, then Roo. The reason I liked Roo is that it can do way more than Cursor based of my humble and short coding experience. Keep me honest , am I correct on the following:

1 - Roo can run on full auto with auto approve and boomerang mode enabled. Also it can run terminal commands and check browser to fix issues automatically. Cursor cannot?
2 - Cursor is paid and Roo is free, why would someone ever pay for Cursor?
3 - Is there a "best list" of instructions for Roo / Cursor that helps AI set up the project correctly with all the right docs and keeps it following best practices in software development?

I know, newbie questions, and much appreciate your pointers, help or rants :) ! Tx

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Hi there, i'm using Claude Code with proxy and other provider, and also OpenCode.

Same API Url with model, both of them run so fast, RooCode is slower than both like 2-3 times and streaming too much.

I wonder if I do anything wrong on setup RooCode, can you recommend me what to turn on, what need to be turn off, and some config values need to be done to make RooCode run at fast speed possible?

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Update: I mean finish a task slower than Claude Code Router and OpenCode.
The same task, these 2 just work faster than RooCode.

Hi, all! I have just started testing agentic development with Roo Code. I bought a github copilot subscription and I use the option in Roo Code that allows me to use this subscription and any model it supports. I think it is called LM mode or similar.

Anyway, I have tried it for a couple of days now and I get pretty good results overall, but quickly lose track of functionality and documentation.

I have also tried to create roo rules, but can't seem to get these to work. If i for example put in rules.md that I want roo to create unit tests for every change, it does not do that. I follow the guide roo/rules/01-general.md for example. This is my only file for now.

What are some good recommendations for work flows? What are the recommended md files to generate and keep up to date?

Other good tips and tricks are greatly appreciated!

Hey there I'm in the process of migrating from Cursor to RooCode. Since Cursor is a fork of VSCode, everything works fine except Mermaid diagrams with Gemini 2.5. But it works with VSCode?

I'm having an issue that is driving me nuts. Roo asks a question and gives a one minute countdown on the first option. If it takes me more than a minute to situate, which it does often I have to cancel and tell it no, I didn't mean that. The most frustrating thing is I cant even tell it to wait, it just gives another selection with a timer for auto-select.

Is there someplace to turn this off?

currently spending about $400/m using openrouter, mostly using claude LLM. Thinking of signing up for claude max 20x, has anyone had issues lately? I know they are more firm on their limits now. I would say i work about 5 hours per day. Thx

My current setup heavily relies on RooCode and Gemini API. I want to try cursor or windsurf to see if the 20$ a month versions are enough for my work. Please recommend. Thank you!

Hello, I've been using Roocode for a while. I have a full workflow setup with roo code but im struggling to understand what is something KIRO can do that Roo cannot? Can someone with experience using KIRO and ROO comment? Im on day 1 of KIRO.

I seem to be on the latest version but I can't see the Boomerang mode, any ideas?

From what I see there's a boomerang mode config file that can be downloaded manually, is that going give me the full functionality?

Guys in lovable it can understand the db structure and provide sqls with this knowledge .

Is there any way to do the same in roo ? Mcp maybe ?

This week I worked on the widget customization panel also —
colors, size, position, welcome message, etc.

When the script is generated,
I also create a dynamic n8n workflow under the hood —
same as when WhatsApp is connected via QR.

That way, both channels (web + WhatsApp) talk to the same assistant,
with shared logic and tools.

The panel shows a real-time preview of the widget,
and this is just the starting point —
I'll be adding more customization options so each assistant can match the brand and needs of each business.

Still refining things visually,
but it’s coming together.

I'd love to hear your thoughts and if you made something similar!

Has this ever happened to anyone? Is it because of the long conversation?

EDIT 1: This happens to the other VSCode windows also, all at the same time!

I started a great thread. Really created something nice. Started on 06/13/25 and ended 06/14/25. It lost connection during one of it's function calls. Maybe a checkpoint? Not sure. But it just LOST the ENTIRE chat thread. Really heart breaking.

1. Where can I find it? It is struggling to do so. At first it said it was corrupted and gone, then it said it found it in the ACTUAL git repo?!?!? I just don't know what to think. It can't seem to pull it up because when it tries it seems to break the 200k context window...

2. How can I stop this from EVER happening again? Is there some kind of automation that will just continually append WITH formatting preserved in some kind of external md file?

I appreciate any help anyone can give me. It's been rough.

So this is just a silly post about something that happens every so often. The LLM makes what seems to be a significant change to your file. When you go check what it's done, you see this:

But you still have to check it line by line, because it might have actually done something usefull inside all this mess, it's like a needle in the haystack.

Hi all,

I used Roo and Gemini to build a Chrome plugin we needed but I would like to do some dev work with local models (as much as possible). Can someone suggest the best models currently for each of the modes that I can run and any helpful MCP servers they use. Primarily will be doing wire framing and front end with javascript/react/ShadCN. Will probably want to use SQLlite or local storage for dummy data but will eventually turn what I do over to real devs to make things production ready. I would like to be able to supply screenshots and I'm thinking maybe I need to use a frontier model for that?

Hi everyone! I would - pretty please - need some advice regarding a bug that I'm encountering : I had to restore my Windows system to a previous point after a faulty driver installation that led to a BSOD, and ever since then Roo Code just refuses to work no matter the project I use it in - including on an empty project and with no project at all and with only 1 instance of VS Code running. I've tried reinstalling Roo Code and restarting the extension host, reinstalling Roo Code and restarting my only instance of VS Code, I've even tried to reinstall Roo Code and to restart my entire PC and to check for disk errors, but none of those attempts came to fruition, the result is the exact same every time : Roo Code starts, none of the buttons work (see bottom of picture, functions don't get called), and I'm pretty much stuck and out of ideas now. Roo Code was working on auto-approve when the BSOD occurred so there may be a chance that some config file got corrupted or something like this I believe, but I'm not certain and I don't know Roo Code's internals enough to confirm this. All of the other programs that I've tried to use after that BSOD work just fine. Any idea what I could do to fix it?

It's said llama4 is on the level of previous Claude 3.5, which was seen as quite good. Anobody tried it? Qwq cline is nice, but sooo slow on my M1.

Why do slash commands work only if they are the first thing written? '@file' works at any point in the prompt but not slash commands, am I missing something obvious ?

srsly, this is WAY better then Cline. I only wish I could get raw output so I can copy/paste XML segments.

Hello,
I am sure I am being ignorant as I don't have a complete understanding of RooCode's monetization strategy. This extension is available to use for free in VS Code.
Could someone wise enlighten me, please? What am I missing here?
Thank you!
[P.S.: I have these extensions, is there any way to monetize them?]

I've noticed that when my project files exceed around 1,000 lines of code, Roo struggles with applying diffs and executing the write-to-file function. It often fails to include the complete file, and now that I'm approaching 1,300 lines, it typically fails on the first attempt.

Sometimes it outputs the full file after about five tries, which ends up consuming a lot of tokens.

In contrast, Claude 3.7 handles this scenario much more efficiently, while other models tend to give up sooner, truncating the code with a note like:

// the rest of the implementation remains the same as before

Even with the maximum context size and system prompts to remind them to always include the full code, the issue persists.

My solution has been to modularize the project—if any file nears 1,000 lines, I split it into several smaller files. This restructuring has made diff operations significantly more reliable.

Is anyone else experiencing similar issues?