# Roo Code: A Claude-Powered Dev Agent Inside VS Code

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Podcast: [AI Builds It: Easy Coding Tools](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-builds-it-easy-coding-tools-7828968)
Published: 2026-05-16T11:37:19+00:00
Episode link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2612673/episodes/19187115-roo-code-a-claude-powered-dev-agent-inside-vs-code.mp3
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Read the full article: Roo Code: A Claude-Powered Dev Agent Inside VS Code Discover more at AI Builds It: Easy Coding Tools Excerpt: 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 i...

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