Roo Code
https://github.com/RooCodeInc/Roo-Code
Discontinued OSS VS Code agentic extension — Cline fork with custom modes (Architect, Code, Ask, Debug) and .roorules/Memory Bank. Shut down 2026-05-15; repo archived.
Archived · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 45 cited facts, 1 with a third-party source · 2 recorded changes · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- OSS VS Code agentic extension (fork of Cline) vendor fix
- Tier
- T3
- Section
- Agent IDEs & coding harnesses
- Created
- 2024-08 (forked from Cline) vendor fix
- Latest release
- Roo Code 3.x rolling vendor fix
- License
- Apache-2.0 vendor fix
- Funding
- Roo Code, Inc. (commercial entity, per repo copyright); extension shut down 2026-05-15 repo fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- open-source vendor fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 14.45 (12-mo avg 108.98) · 23 participants — 2026-05 third-party fix
When to use
Optimised for: Cline + modes (Architect/Code/Ask/Debug)
Anti-fit: smaller community than Cline; fork-maintenance risk
Pros & cons
Pros
Adds the "modes" pattern on top of Cline's plan/act; permissive license.
Cons
Fork-of-a-fork dynamics — risks diverging from upstream Cline; small core maintainer team.
Claims & capabilities
Cline fork; introduced "modes" pattern (Architect/Code/Ask/Debug).
Technical surface
- API surface
- VS Code extension
- Backend storage
- local workspace + .roorules
- Deployment
- Self-hosted only — VS Code extension (shut down 2026-05-15)
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- per-user
- MCP
- native (inherited from Cline)
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
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Sources (44 cited facts, 1 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is OSS VS Code agentic extension (fork of Cline) vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Discontinued OSS VS Code agentic extension — Cline fork with custom modes (Architect, Co… repo
- Claims / benefits Cline fork; introduced "modes" pattern (Architect/Code/Ask/Debug). vendor
- Modalities text vendor
- Created 2024-08 (forked from Cline) vendor
- Latest release Roo Code 3.x rolling vendor
- License Apache-2.0 vendor
- GitHub RooCodeInc/Roo-Code — ~24.3k stars, archived 2026-05-15 repo
- Mindshare 5+ HN threads; reddit r/RooCode community vendor
- Funding Roo Code, Inc. (commercial entity, per repo copyright); extension shut down 2026-05-15 repo
- Customers / scale OSS community vendor
- Pricing Discontinued — extension shut down 2026-05-15 (code remains Apache-2.0) repo
- Compliance OSS — no formal compliance vendor
- Data handling Local VS Code plugin — LLM calls go through user-configured provider; no Roo Code-manage… vendor
- Deployment Self-hosted only — VS Code extension (shut down 2026-05-15) repo
- HQ Distributed OSS team vendor
- Founders / pedigree Roo Code contributors (community-led, fork from Saoud Rizwan's Cline) vendor
- Memory volume / scale no scale claim vendor
- Code/weights release Open-source — github.com/RooCodeInc/Roo-Code vendor
- API surface VS Code extension vendor
- Backend storage local workspace + .roorules vendor
- Multi-tenancy per-user vendor
- Versioning .roorules in git vendor
- Schema evolution free-form / no schema vendor
- Namespace primitives per-workspace vendor
- Contradiction handling human-arbitrate vendor
- MCP support native (inherited from Cline) vendor
- Import / export rules + memory bank are markdown vendor
- Validated verticals coding agents — broad horizontal vendor
- Time to running <5min (install plugin) vendor
- Anti-fit smaller community than Cline; fork-maintenance risk vendor
- Optimised for Cline + modes (Architect/Code/Ask/Debug) vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure OpenAI-compatible APIs vendor
- Pros Adds the "modes" pattern on top of Cline's plan/act; permissive license. vendor
- Cons Fork-of-a-fork dynamics — risks diverging from upstream Cline; small core maintainer team. vendor
- Project & sources roocode.com; github.com/RooCodeInc/Roo-Code vendor
- cost-input-usd-per-mtok 0 vendor
- cost-output-usd-per-mtok 0 vendor
- cost-tier free vendor
- cost-pricing-model free-tier vendor
- cost-last-verified 2026-06-29 vendor
- licensing-bucket open-source vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":27.74,"as_of":"2026-05","openrank_12mo":108.98,"openrank_current":14.45,"par… third-party
What changed
Changes to this record's lifecycle, licence, release, pricing and hosting facts, from the catalog's git history. Subscribe (Atom)
- 2026-10-29
- Homepage “https://roocode.com” → “https://github.com/RooCodeInc/Roo-Code”
- 2026-10-26
- Lifecycle first recorded as “archived”
- Pricing “Free (OSS); usage via LLM provider” → “Discontinued — extension shut down 2026-05-15 (code remains Apache-2.0)” source
- Funding / ownership “not applicable — OSS / no commercial entity” → “Roo Code, Inc. (commercial entity, per repo copyright); extension shut down 2026-05-15” source
- Deployment “VS Code extension” → “Self-hosted only — VS Code extension (shut down 2026-05-15)” source
Related systems
References (1)
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Referenced by (4)
- Bifrost (Maxim AI) integrates with — Bifrost docs have a CLI-agent integration page for Roo Code. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Portkey AI integrates with — Portkey docs have a Roo Code app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- TrueFoundry AI Gateway integrates with — TrueFoundry AI Gateway ecosystem lists a Roo Code integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Vercel AI Gateway integrates with — Vercel AI Gateway docs have a Roo Code coding-agent page. (verified 2026-10-29)