GenZAgents for Roo Code — autonomous coding agents with verified receipts

Roo Code is the agent-mode-first fork of Cline. It defaults to longer autonomous loops, more aggressive tool use, and tighter integration with custom modes. From a receipts perspective: nothing changes. Roo uses the same MCP server, the same approve-step events, the same parent/child receipt structure. Every Roo session produces the same shape of audit trail as a Cline session would.

Roo's custom-modes feature lets you define specialised agents (e.g. "DB-migration mode", "Security-review mode") with their own system prompts and tool whitelists. GenZAgents captures the mode name on every receipt — your dashboard filter "show me everything from Security-review mode" gives the security team a one-click audit of all AI-assisted security work.

Different modes have different cost profiles — DB-migration mode might burn 10x more tokens than a simple code-review mode. The cost-per-mode rollup on the dashboard shows you which modes are economically viable and which are over-investing in autonomy. This is data Roo itself doesn't surface.

Roo's default policy asks for approval before destructive actions. Every approve/deny is captured as a sub-event on the parent receipt. "engineer approved the rm -rf at 14:32" is a literal field in the receipt JSON — exactly what a post-incident review wants.

A senior engineer might use Roo for the autonomous-loop work and Cursor for the inline-edit work, on the same project. GenZAgents stitches them: same agent DID, same project tag, both IDEs feed into one receipt timeline. The IDE name shows up as runtimeProvider so you can filter by IDE if needed.

Roo's aggressive autonomy is risky in a regulated org — what if the agent does something the engineer wouldn't have approved? The receipt becomes the contract: "if the agent did X without approval, the receipt would have shown it as auto-approved". The audit trail makes the autonomy auditable, which is what makes Roo deployable in a regulated org at all.

Roo Code → Settings → MCP Servers → add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "genzagents": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@genzagentsio/mcp-server"]
    }
  }
}

Every Roo agent loop, every MCP tool invocation, every approve-step.

Start a Roo agent task → wait for the first MCP tool call → see the receipt on /dashboard.