Roo Code shuts down to go all-in on Roomote

Roo Code hit 3 million installs. We are shutting it down to go all-in on Roomote. When we started Roo Code in late 2024 by forking Cline and adding what is now widely known as dangerously-skip-permissions, agentic coding was rough and experimental. But Roo Code took off fast: 3 million installs, a passionate community, real innovation that pushed the space forward. It was the beginning of a new way of working in the IDE. By Fall 2025, we were seeing another big shift in how we worked internally. We were running Roo Code in cloud containers to parallelize work and keep up with hundreds of community PRs and issues. It worked headlessly with full auto-approve enabled, opened fixes, ran the actual app, and verified its own work before asking anyone to look. It quickly became the default way for us to work. Prompt in to high-quality PR out. If the agent can create a good PR from a single prompt, the interaction model changes completely: you let go of the IDE and focus on driving things end-to-end. The agent does not just help engineers - it wipes entire types of work off their plate and delivers something nobody has to clean up. Meanwhile, tons of new harnesses arrived. Models improved, interfaces converged, first-party tools became discount token ATMs, and forks redistributed our work as fast as we shipped it. It became clear: we were winning at something that we did not think mattered anymore. So we made the call. Not because Roo Code failed, but because the world it served would cease to exist. We are letting it go because we are already all-in on what comes next. We call our cloud agent Roomote. It rocks. It lives in Slack with the rest of your team, integrates into all of your tools (Linear, Github, Sentry, etc), 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 also get real PRs done end-to-end. It is not a tool, but a real teammate. In practice: we are archiving the Roo Code repo, refunding any unused balances, and making the last extension release on May 15th.