Thank you, Roo! We’ll take it from here

TL;DR: Roo Code is no more. We’re grateful for what the Roo team contributed to Kilo, and we’re still going full speed on building the best agentic coding experience in VS Code. Install here.

Roo Code is officially shutting down. The team announced they’re archiving the repo on May 15th to go all-in on Roomote, their cloud agent.

First: congrats to the Roo team. 3 million installs is a hell of a run, and a lot of the modern IDE agent playbook came out of that project. Custom modes, the Architect/Code/Debug split, diff-based editing, the whole “let the agent actually do things” philosophy that’s now table stakes. Roo pushed it forward when a lot of people were still arguing about whether autocomplete was enough.

Kilo started as a fork of Roo. We’ve been contributing back upstream since our inception, and a lot of what Kilo does well today started with the work Roo shipped first. For that, we’re very grateful!

Kilo is not slowing down on VS Code

The IDE is not over. Far from it, actually. Every independent developer, every engineering team, every enterprise shipping production software still lives in an editor for most of their working hours. That’s not going away, and the quality of the agent sitting next to them in that environment matters enormously.

Which is why we just completely rebuilt the Kilo VS Code extension from the ground up on the OpenCode server, a portable open-source core that now shares the same engine as the Kilo CLI and Cloud Agents. That’s not something you do if you think the IDE is a dead end.

The rebuild unlocked things that weren’t possible before: true parallel execution, subagent delegation, an Agent Manager for running and monitoring multiple agents at once, inline diff review with line-level comments, and cross-platform sessions that carry state between your terminal and your editor without losing context.

It’s already a fundamentally different surface than what we shipped at launch just a few weeks ago, and we’re still actively hardening it based on what the community is telling us.

We also think coding isn’t the only place that AI should be working for you. KiloClaw is a personal AI assistant that can proactively take actions across external platforms, automate workflows on its own schedule, and handle work that doesn’t require you to be in the IDE at all.

We care about both sides of how developers actually spend their time, and we’re not slowing down on either.

For the Roo community

If you’ve been using Roo Code, you’ll feel right at home in the Kilo extension - the codebases share a grandparent, after all.

If you want to go deeper, the repo is completely open. Open source is how this whole ecosystem got here, and open source contributors are the reason Kilo moves as fast as it does. If you’ve been contributing to Roo, we’d love to have you.

To the Roo team and the Roo community: thanks for everything. The bar you set is the reason the rest of us had something to aim at.