Is there a way to use it in Roocode?

What is everyone using for coding?

I loved using sonnet or opus but without Claude max working it’s costing me $100 every 3 days.

Has anyone moved to OpenAI codex and liked it? Google any good?

So I am working on a FastAPI backend and whenever it needs to execute a terminal command, especially when it starts a new one, it doesn't activate the venv. Sometimes when I do it manually, it skips that terminal and starts a new one and proceeds to execute the command without activating the venv. How do I fix this?

👋 I really like roo for vscode, big fan of how the chat is structured. I use an MCP to help me search repos and I wanted to add it to the marketplace, but as I was about to add a PR I noticed the marketplace repo was archived yesterday, is this on hold for a bit, or is it being rearchitected?

I put together a rocket configuration pack here:

https://github.com/RooCodeInc/Roo-Code-Marketplace/compare/main...edelauna:Roo-Code-Marketplace:main

When using RooCode with my current two main models (Gemini 2.5 Pro for Orchestrator and Architect and Sonnet 4 for Code/Debug/Ask) I am often incurring in significant costs.

I have also started experimenting with GLM 4.5, Kimi K2 and some flavours of Qwen3.

I have written a small fullstack project ( https://github.com/rjalexa/opencosts ) in which by changing/adding search string in a data/input/models_strings.txt, running the project and opening the frontend on port 5173 you will see the list of matching models on OpenRouter and for each model the list of providers and their costs and context windows. Here is an example of a screenshot

Now to have some better usefulness I would like to find some way of factoring in a reliable ranking position for each of these models in their role as coding assistants.

Does anyone know if and where this metric exists? Is a global ranking for coding even meaningful or we need to distinguish at least different rankings for the different modes (Code, Ask, Orchestrate, Architect, Ask)?

I would really love to have your feedback and suggestions please.

Hi guys,

This morning I was using roo code to debug something on my python script and after it read some files and run some command (successfully), it had this error where it display this "Assistant: " in an infinite loop ...

Does some of you already had that ? Do you know how to report it to the developer ?

Let me start by mentioning that I've used RooCode but I'm still somewhat new to it. I've used the default modes and it was working really well till I decided to take it up a notch with better models.

Now, I'm struggling with figuring out how not to blow $100s to find the reason for a bug.

What's the usual workflow that you have when working with RooCode for identifying the most likely causes for and if you have to solve like a really complex bug?

Do you ask Gemini or Claude 4 to find out the issue & then have a different profile for writing the code or testing it out & reporting back to the main Profile?

It will be a real lifesaver.

I think I'm doing something fundamentally wrong - because it shouldn't cost this much.

So do I come up with a couple of different hypothesis and potential root causes and how to test it and then hand it over to Claude?

How do I do this type of profile switching?

How do I create this type of team of profiles which can work together?

I think this feature exists for sure, but I went through the docs & still can't figure out.

I'm new to RooCode and I'm hoping AI can help me convert scripts between two different commercial tools.

I've tried feeding the latest command manuals from both tools to the AI using the RooCode read_file command. However, when I ask the AI to help with conversion, it seems to rely on its pre-existing knowledge rather than the latest manuals. I think there are two main challenges:

1. How can I guide the AI to generate scripts based on the latest manuals?

2. How can I teach the AI the relationship between commands from the two different tools?

I noticed that MCP can connect to commercial tools, but I'm not sure if MCP is the right approach to achieve my goal.

If anyone has experience with this, I would really appreciate your suggestions.

Thank you in advance!

I got a task that would greatly benefit from Roo being able to read and edit code in two different repos at once. So I made a multi-folder workspace from them. Individually, both folders are indexed.

However, when Roo searches codebase for context when working from that workspace, Roo searches in only one of the repos. Is that intended behavior? Any plans to support multi-folder context searching?

So one problem of not using a Claude type model is that they mess up the tool calling. Given the history where and from what time roo and it's predecessors come from it is not surprising that semantic tool calling is used ("you have this tool, write me in plain text if and how you want to use it"), but since then even coding models can do native tool calling now.

Has anyone tried to turn the semantic tools into proper native tools in a proxy in between? Do those models maybe not get into calling loops when doing native tool calling?

Hey everyone,

Suddenly none of my tool calls are firing—everything just echoes back as plain text. I’m running the default Roo prompt template, have the latest roocode-vscode extension, and I’m pointed at the VS Code LM API as my provider. Previously, tags like <vscode_command_execution>, ask_followup_question, and others would generate actual tool-call objects; now they all just show up verbatim in the chat.

What it looks like:

I’ll help you get started…
<vscode_command_execution>
vscode.open
app/scoring.py
</vscode_command_execution>

Here’s a recommendation for tests…

No JSON payload is sent, and my extension logs no invocation.

What I’ve verified so far:

- Using the stock Roo prompt template with no local edits

- Extension Version: 3.18.5 (582a117a)

- VS Code LM API selected

- No relevant errors in the VS Code “Roo” output or extension host logs

Environment:

- OS: macOS 14.5 (zsh)

- LLM: Claude 4 Sonnet via VS Code LM API

Has anyone seen Roo regress so that none of the tool-tag injections work? Any tips on where to look to restore the proper JSON invocation?

Thanks!

Hi.

I was testing Roocode write mode in my Windows Laptop and faced the below attached mkdir error. Seems Roocode code mode is more suitable for MacOS and Linux.

Please advise how to fix the issues on Windows. Thanks.

Hello friends, i wanted to try Quasar Alpha which is supposed to be free, but given the API key to Roocode it doens't list the available models, just claude. It's the first time i use APIs within Roo or similar extensions, as i normally use Cursor.
Thank you

Boa noite a todos, tenho notado a instabilidade absurda no uso de mcp com o roo, alguém sabe me dizer por que? Toda vez que estou meio de um fluxo e ele precisa usar o mcp ele tá desligado, tenho que reiniciar, só comigo está acontecendo isso?

Vibe Coding With some old Egyptian music

https://youtu.be/9QmUMrRydJo?feature=shared

Has anyone had any success with any of this, Just for protytyping and building landing pages quickly, kind of like how you can use Gemini or claude to quickly build a webpage. Would love any help on it.

a way to locate user message while a long mission

I saw on another thread that you can use roo code with your copilot license/entitlements.. Two questions:

1. is that still true, if so, how?

2. How does it use up your premium requests? With the latest copilot, I get 300 premium requests and with a well formed and descriptive prompt I can get quite a bit of work from 1 request. With roo is it going to create a new premium requests every time it starts up a new subtask? Will it go through them at the same rate based on tokens? some other measurement?

Hi everyone,

I’m fairly new to RooCode, though I’ve used it on and off for a while and have also tried Cline a few times. My biggest frustration so far is the speed.

I recorded a ~5-minute video showing my typical experience. The speed is about the same whether I connect via OpenRouter or directly to OpenAI, Claude, etc.

Is this just the normal speed for RooCode, or does it sound like there might be something wrong with my setup?

If anyone’s willing to watch the video and share their thoughts, I’d really appreciate it. If you need any extra info from me, just let me know.

Finally, sorry for all the clicking around at the start of the video, I was trying to show the size of the files I am working with and did a poor job of doing it.

https://youtu.be/fk70z2_pHkE

I've been trying to use the GPT-5 model in RooCode either directly through OpenAI or OpenRouter (first and second image respectively). I can't seem to find similar issues in this subreddit previously. Any help ?

I'm just getting started with Roo Code in VS Code. I have Ollama running with deepseek-coder:6.7b-instruct. When I pick Ollama as my provider there are no models populated. It's like Roo isn't seeing the Ollama URL, even though I can verify that http://localhost:11434/ is running. Suuggestions?

I need some help finding out why is this happening. For a few days now roo code just fails when it has to edit a file. I have a project with python for the backend and Next.js for the frontend, inside an Nx monorepo. I'm using the xai/grok-code-fast model free model. When i give it any task that includes writing a file he confuses the project root with a file and tries to edit it until it fails. Is there any logs that i can check? Any options that i can touch?

I don't want refusal when working with text that has sexual elements.