Roo Code

Roo Code is an open-source AI coding agent for VS Code built around specialized agent modes. Code mode handles implementation, Architect mode handles system design and planning, Debug mode handles diagnosis, and Ask mode answers codebase questions, alongside custom modes a team can define. It originated as a fork of Cline and was developed independently by Roo Code Inc. Roo Code Inc. shut the extension down on May 15, 2026. The company's own notice reads "The Roo Code Extension was shut down on May 15th." The GitHub repository was archived the same day and is read-only, the final release is v3.54.0, and the roocode.com domain now redirects to roomote.dev, a separate cloud coding agent from the same company. The extension remains installable from the VS Code Marketplace and functional for existing users, and it has passed 1.9 million installs, but it receives no further development, bug fixes or security patches from the original team. Because the code is Apache-2.0 licensed, the community continued it. Roo Code Inc. points users to two successors: Zoo Code, which it describes as a fork started by the Roo Code community, and Cline, the upstream project Roo Code originated from. The Zoo Code repository was created on April 23, 2026, reached the VS Code Marketplace on May 8, 2026, and remains under active development well past the version Roo Code froze at. OpenCode is a further open-source BYOK option, though the original team does not name it. The extension itself was free, with users paying only for AI inference through their own provider keys. Roo Code Inc. also ran a paid product, and its shutdown notice still directs former paying customers to a billing address, but no pricing for it is documented on any surface the company still publishes. The documentation covers 24 provider integrations including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Bedrock, Vertex, xAI and Mistral, alongside OpenAI-compatible endpoints and local models through Ollama and LM Studio. Roo Code's own provider index recommends OpenRouter as "a single API to 100+ models". Roo Code is not the right fit for teams that need commercial support, SLA guarantees or compliance certifications. The extension carries none, and a trust portal that once existed at trust.roocode.com now returns a 404 with its content withdrawn. Model Context Protocol support is client-side only. The documentation describes MCP as a way of extending Roo Code by connecting out to external tools and services, and Roo Code publishes no server of its own. Current state Q3 2026: the repository is archived at 24.3k stars and more than 3,400 forks, frozen at v3.54.0 since May 15, 2026. Zoo Code carries the extension forward for the community under the same Apache-2.0 license. New production deployments should weigh the maintenance risk and plan for one of the maintained successors.