Roo Code

VS Code/Cursor extension in the Cline lineage. The **harness** is the approval-gated agent with custom modes and a strong MCP story; the IDE is the UI. Popular community fork when you want that workflow without the upstream extension.

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24.3k

Adoption surface

slightly complex

Autonomy

step-gated

Recovery

resumable

License

✅ open-source

Category

Coding agent products (IDEs, CLIs, full suites)

Repository ↗ Example: Custom modes guide ↗

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