Shut down on 2026-05-15 (verified 2026-09-30)
Roo Code’s maintainers announced on 2026-04-21 that the VS Code extension, Roo Code Cloud and Roo Code Router would be wound down; all three ended on 2026-05-15 and the GitHub repository is archived and read-only (about 24.3k stars). Stated reason: they no longer believe IDEs are the future of coding and bet the company on Roomote, a Slack-first cloud agent (secondary reporting). Project README lists ZooCode (community fork) and Cline (the original project Roo forked from) as alternatives; Kilo Code also offers a migration guide. Billing questions: billing@roocode.com.
Roo Code
by Roo Code Inc.
Open-source multi-mode (Code, Architect, Ask, Debug, custom modes) AI coding agent for VS Code, forked from Cline in 2024.
Features (historical)
Custom modes, MCP support, bring-your-own-key model access; Roo Code Cloud and Router were the hosted offerings.
What to do
Move to Cline, Kilo Code or the ZooCode fork; existing installs with your own API keys kept working through the wind-down window but receive no updates.
Sources
- https://github.com/RooCodeInc/Roo-Code (archived repo README, 2026-09-30)
- https://docs.roocode.com/sunset → redirects to roocodeinc.github.io/Roo-Code/sunset (page content did not load; shutdown facts from search result snippets, 2026-09-30)
- https://kilo.ai/articles/roo-to-kilo-migration-guide (2026-09-30)
- https://vibecodinghub.org/blog/roo-code-shutdown (secondary, 2026-09-30)