Rovo Dev Improvement Suggestions

[Andy]

Very impressed with Rovo Dev, especially the agentic control capabilities (once, this session, forever etc).   However there have been a few things have impacted my workflow.

1. Simpler addition of MCP servers.
2. Display git head in the status bar.
3. Plan Mode / Code Mode - Rovo Dev can sometimes be a little keen to dive into code.  Plan mode would limit to only creating a plan.
4. Show plans / tasks as a simple markdown of work to be done / remaining.
5. /tools command so we can point Rovo Dev to the right tool when it is struggling.
6. When Rovo dev presents code / commands it needs to be in a markdown code window with a 'copy' option.  Using the terminal select / copy picks up line breaks, box drawing characters etc, which can't be copied straight into code/terminal

[David Lewis]

/mcp would be nice to just add server

/tools to call

/tools or just /hooks

that can add hooks for events notifications would be awesome

Hook Events

PreToolUse

Runs after rovo creates tool parameters and before processing the tool call.

Common matchers:

Task - Agent tasks

Bash - Shell commands

Glob - File pattern matching

Grep - Content search

Read - File reading

Edit, MultiEdit - File editing

Write - File writing

WebFetch, WebSearch - Web operations

PostToolUse

[Justin Townsend]

3. /mode -plan is likely to consume less than /mode -code. This type of differentiation opens up the possibility of measuring / pricing the difference and informative for users.

[rmoriz]

Regarding MCP-Servers:

The json structure used is already the "standard" used by several AI tools on the market and by all MCP servers. Their documentation is a almost always covering which lines to add (use npm, uv, docker to connect). What I missed was a good tutorial, where the mcp.json file is located etc. - I still haven't found logging, for example if one MCP server crashes rovodev, like MS playwright-mcp does. I've reported a bug regarding this issue. 

There is an interesting 3rd party project called "mcp-router" which offers visual configuration but acts a Server-in-the-middle in between the client (rovodev) and MCP serves. Have not audited their code so no guarantees whatsoever.

[Jovana Dunisijevic]

Really appreciate hearing feedback from you all!

@Andy @rmoriz @Justin Townsend @David Lewis 

Apologies for my late reply - I was on a 3 week PTO.

I'll make sure to pass on this to the product team!

Know that we'll always share when we release enhancements and updates!

Since we're still in Beta, this feedback is quite valuable to our team and I'd encourage you to keep sharing!

Thank you!

Kindest regards,

Jovana