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Roo Code

Customizable AI dev team inside VS Code

Self-Hosted AI Archived ★ 24.3k stars Easy setup Apache-2.0

This project is archived. Upstream development has stopped, so expect no new features or security fixes. Consider an actively maintained self-hosted ai alternative.

Roo Code is an open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code that supports multiple custom modes and personas. It connects to any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, including locally hosted models, for fully private AI-assisted development.

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Key features

  • Multiple customizable agent modes
  • Any OpenAI-compatible provider
  • Diff-based code editing
  • MCP tool integration

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Custom modes and personas
  • Works with local models
  • Deep VS Code integration

Trade-offs

  • Upstream development stopped
  • Token costs add up

Is Roo Code secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Roo Code's latest release (v3.54.0). OSV.dev lists 11 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2025-65946, published 2025-11-21 (327 days ago), fixed in 3.26.7

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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