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Tools: Roo Code
Category: AI assistants and agents
Site: roocode.com
Roo Code
An open-source agent fork that grew its own direction. The address now presents Roomote, a hosted teammate that opens pull requests.
The fork that became its own product.
What it is sold for
Running an agent that opens reviewable pull requests.
The address redirects to https://roomote.dev/, which is worth knowing before you follow it.
Named alongside
These entries mention each other by name. It is a weak relationship and it is the only one the catalogue can show without inventing something.
Names:
- An autonomous coding agent that ships as a VS Code extension, a CLI and an SDK, with read and write access to the working tree.
Named by:
- An open-source agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the CLI. Brings your own API keys at no markup and supports local models.
Same shelf
The rest of ai assistants and agents, alphabetically. Sharing a category is a filing decision, not a relationship.
- Generates and hosts WordPress sites, with the build and the hosting sold as one product.
- Agent Shadow Brain did not answerListed as a background analysis agent. The repository returns 404.
- Assigns work to a group of agents and tracks it, treating them as a team roster rather than as one assistant.
- A TypeScript toolkit that puts one interface in front of many model providers, including streaming and tool calls.
- An agent that spends more compute at inference time on harder engineering problems rather than answering immediately.
- Pair programming in the terminal. Reads the repository, proposes edits, and commits them to git with a message.
- Amazon's original completion assistant. The name is retired and the address now serves Amazon Q Developer.
- Amazon's coding assistant, integrated with AWS accounts and services rather than with the editor alone.
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