Open-source AI coding tool Roo Code will end its VS Code extension, cloud and router services on May 15 and shift toward an autonomous agent that handles work from start to finish outside an integrated development environment (IDE).

According to a recent report by The New Stack, Roo Code unveiled a cloud-based coding agent called Roomote. Roomote integrates with tools such as Slack, GitHub and Linear to handle tasks end-to-end and generate pull requests and changes that developers can review. It runs the generated code itself, verifies the results and then hands it over to the developer.

Matt Rubens (맷 루벤스), Roo Code's co-founder and chief executive, said, "If an agent can make a good pull request with a single prompt, the way you interact changes completely." He said, "An agent goes beyond helping engineers. It eliminates certain types of work itself and produces results that no one needs to touch."

Ahead of Roo Code's shutdown, open-source coding agent Kilo Code pitched an alternative VS Code extension to Roo Code users. Brian Turcotte (브라이언 투르코트), Kilo Code's developer relations lead, pushed back, saying, "The IDE is not over." He said, "From independent developers to enterprises, people still spend most of their time in an editor."