When we launched Roo Code in late 2024 by forking Cline and adding what's now infamously known as the 'dangerously-skip-permissions' feature, agentic coding was still a rough, experimental frontier. But Roo Code caught fire: 3 million installs, a passionate community, and real innovation that pushed the whole space forward. It wasn't just another IDE extension—it was the beginning of a new way of working.
Where it all started
By Fall 2025, though, we were seeing another seismic shift in how we worked internally. We started running Roo Code in cloud containers to parallelize tasks and keep up with hundreds of community PRs and issues. It operated headlessly with full auto-approve enabled, opened fixes, ran the actual app, and verified its own work before anyone even had to glance at it. It quickly became our default workflow.
Prompt in → high-quality PR out.
If an agent can spin up a solid pull request from a single prompt, the entire interaction model flips. You stop babysitting the IDE and start focusing on driving projects end-to-end. The agent doesn't just assist engineers—it wipes entire categories of work off their plates and delivers something that doesn't need a cleanup pass.
Meanwhile, the landscape was shifting under our feet. A ton of new frameworks arrived. Models got better, interfaces started to converge, first-party tools turned into discount token ATMs, and forks redistributed our work almost as fast as we shipped it. It became painfully clear: we were winning at a game we no longer believed was the main event.
So we made the call. Not because Roo Code failed—it was a hit—but because the world it was built for is about to vanish. We're letting it go because we're already all-in on what comes next.
We call our cloud agent Roomote. And it rocks. It lives in Slack with your team, integrates into all your tools (Linear, GitHub, Sentry, you name it), and runs whichever frontier model fits the job. It verifies its own work with screenshots and a full local environment, so PMs, support, ops, marketers, and founders can also get real PRs done end-to-end. It's not a tool; it's a teammate.
Talking to Roomote all day every day
Here's what that means in practice: we're archiving the Roo Code repo, refunding any unused balances, and shipping the last extension release on May 15th. To our incredible community, thank you. If you still need an IDE extension, Cline has incorporated many of Roo Code's features and will welcome you. But we invite you to come figure this out with us: what does a software team look like when the agents aren't just tools, but actual teammates?
Join the Roomote waitlist at https://roomote.dev. We're letting people in daily.