~/distillery setup → roo-code

Overview

Roo Code is a VSCode fork of Cline with extended agentic capabilities. It uses the `@anthropic-ai/sdk` client and supports a custom Anthropic base URL via the `roo-cline.anthropicBaseUrl` VSCode setting, the same pattern as Cline but under the `roo-cline` extension namespace. Once set, Roo Code routes all Claude requests through The Distillery where they are deduplicated and distilled before reaching Anthropic.

Prerequisites

You have The Distillery installed and running locally on port 3080. See the main install guide if you have not done this yet. Roo Code 3.0 or newer is required.

Install Roo Code from the VSCode marketplace: search for 'Roo Code' by RooVetGit, or install from the command line.

code --install-extension RooVetGit.roo-cline

code --install-extension RooVetGit.roo-cline

Open your VSCode user settings.json and add the `roo-cline.anthropicBaseUrl` key. This is the Roo Code equivalent of Cline's `cline.anthropicBaseUrl`; the extension ID prefix differs because Roo Code is a fork.

{
  "roo-cline.anthropicBaseUrl": "http://localhost:3080"
}

~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\settings.json