tool
Roo Code
VS Code agent that began as a Cline fork and added configurable modes. Its team now also ships Roomote, a self-hosted cloud agent.
Pricing
Extension is free and open source; you pay your model provider. Verify current maintenance activity in the GitHub org before standardising on it.
Not verified against the vendor page — confirm before budgeting. Vendor pricing ↗
What it is allowed to touch
the field most directories skip| Runs shell commands | Yes |
| OS-level sandbox | None |
| Can read .env / secrets | Yes |
| Outbound network | Yes |
| Audit log | None |
Approval-gated like Cline, with per-mode tool permissions. Code is auditable; no sandbox.
Compared with
Other tools
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