
Roo Code: A Claude-Powered Dev Agent Inside VS Code
Published: May 16, 2026
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Roo Code: A Claude-Powered Dev Agent Inside VS Code
Roo Code is a free, open-source AI-powered assistant that lives inside Visual Studio Code. Like having “an AI-powered dev team” in your editor, it can read and write code across multiple files, run commands, and even browse the web to gather information (roocode.com) (direct.betterstack.com). Under the hood it uses large language models (you can “plug in” Anthropi...