Roomote is the new flagship from RooCodeInc, the team that built Roo Code into a 23k-star, three-million-install VS Code extension before announcing the open-source project would shut down on May 15, 2026 in favor of going cloud-first. Where Roo Code was a step-by-step IDE assistant, Roomote is a parallel-by-default async coworker that lives in Slack, GitHub, Linear, and a web dashboard. You @-mention it on a thread, hand it a bug or a backlog ticket, and it spins up an isolated cloud environment, reads the codebase, runs your actual app, drafts a plan, writes the code, verifies the result, and opens a pull request that follows your normal review path.
The product is positioned for engineering leaders who want to extend AI leverage past the IDE. PMs, support, ops, designers, and founders can ask repo-grounded questions and create real PRs without ever opening an editor, while engineers offload merge conflicts, inbound bugs, chores, and feature scaffolding. Roomote is model-agnostic — it picks the best frontier model and harness for each task rather than locking you to a single provider — and it self-improves over time by learning from PR feedback and code review outcomes. Live previews, transcript replays, diffs, and screenshots make every task auditable before you merge.
Day-one wins are practical: integrations with Slack and GitHub mentions for entry, Linear and Notion for context, Sentry and logs services for grounding, plus voice dictation, web-based code editor, and infinite parallel chats so multiple teammates can drive separate tasks at once. Pricing is waitlist-gated at the time of writing, with the public site framed around a per-task cloud-agent subscription rather than a per-seat IDE license. For teams that want a teammate-shaped agent that handles questions, planning, bugfixing, and PR-shaped delivery without forcing engineers to abandon their existing tools, Roomote is the most credible cloud-agent bet of Q2 2026.
