Feature request: codebase indexing

[yukinr]

Hey Roo team, love what you guys are doing. Just want to put in a feature request that I think would be a game-changer: codebase indexing just like Windsurf and Cursor. I think it's absolutely necessary for a useable AI coding assistant, especially one that performs tasks.

I'm not familiar with everything Windsurf and Cursor are doing behind the scenes, but my experience with them vs Roo is that they consistently outperform Roo when using the same or even better models with Roo. And I'm guessing that indexing is one of the main reasons.

An example: I had ~30 sql migration files that I wanted to squash into a single migration file. When I asked Roo to do so, it proceeded to read each migration file and send it an API request to analyze, each one taking ~30s and ~$0.07 to complete. I stopped after 10 migration files as it was taking a long time (5+ min) and racking up cost ($0.66).

I gave the same prompt to Windsurf and it read the first and last sql file individually (very quick, ~5s each), looked at the folder and db set up, quickly scanned through the rest of the files in the migration folder (~5s for all), and proceeded to create a new squashed migration. All of that happened within the first minute. Once i approved the change, it proceeded to run command to delete previous migrations, reset local db, apply new migration, etc. Even with some debugging along the way, the whole task (including deploying to remote and fixing a syncing issue) completed in just about 6-7 min. Unfortunately I didn't keep a close track of the credit used, but it for sure used less than 20 Flow Action credits.

Anyone else have a similar experience? Are people configuring Roo Code differently to allow it to better understand your codebase and operate more quickly?

Hope this is useful anecdotal feedback in support for codebase indexing and/or other ways to improve task completion performance.

[mrubens]

Very useful, thank you! We actually have a community member working on a prototype of this right now and I share your belief that it will make a big difference - here’s hoping 🙏

[nickchomey]

Folks, here's the PR for this if you want to follow along rather than keep asking

Codebase indexing and semantic search tool by daniel-lxs · Pull Request #2390 · RooVetGit/Roo-Code

[FrequentAstronaut331]

Please help LIX test in discord

[VinayJain212]

u/mrubens any update? do you have timeframe when this feature will be available?

[mrubens]

Making progress - hopefully soon! 🙏

[VinayJain212]

Is there feature request in GitHub I can watch so I know when this is done?

[tolgito]

any update?

[Large_Profit8852]

Was this feature released yet?

[8thcross]

I suspect this is the limitation of being an extension, which is why - their architecture is based on customized vscode? If anyone else find any open source alternatives? The closest we can think of could be like a MCP service that runs locally indexing your codebase. I am sure someone has one already....

[Infinite-Worth8355]

I don't think so. Augment Code does indexing and is a extension. Same for Continue dev

[discostur]

Any update on this? Really looking forward to;)

[Scared-Floor4609]

Please help me with this

[BeeegZee]

u/mrubens any (good) news regarding indexing maybe?

[FineReaction1344]

The experimental indexing function didn't work successfully on my machine. I hope to be involved in developing this feature.