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A Single Control Room for AI Coding Agents—Without Rebuilding Roo
Treat the VPS based Opus chat, agent status and human decision points as one reconnectable workspace—not as separate logs to review. Roo’s MCP support can provide a route to external tools, but it does not establish that Roo can display live background updates or custom approval buttons.[13] Cline’s official termina...
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- Treat the VPS based Opus chat, agent status and human decision points as one reconnectable workspace—not as separate logs to review.
- Roo’s MCP support can provide a route to external tools, but it does not establish that Roo can display live background updates or custom approval buttons.[13]
- Cline’s official terminal UI supports interactive chats, plan reviews and action approvals, making it a candidate to test; integrating external agent slots and business specific approvals still needs verification.[6][2]
- Before testing the CLI, note that a prompt passed directly to Cline defaults to Act mode with auto approval enabled.[3]
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A lightweight way to coordinate multiple AI coding agents is to make the VPS-based control room the shared workspace: Opus provides the coordinating chat, while a persistent status view shows what the agent slots are doing and where a human decision is needed. An IDE or phone can then be another way into that same workspace.
If you specifically want updates inside Roo’s native chat, the available evidence supports a limited bridge to external tools—not a ready-made live control panel. Cline’s official terminal UI is a practical candidate to try, but it would still need to be connected to your workflow.13
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Make the chat the front door—not the status database
The goal is for a person to see overall progress in the main control chat, without having to piece it together from logs or separate status cards. A useful workspace could combine:
- A fixed status area showing the four slots, their current state, recent meaningful events, the active task and the number of items waiting for a human. The program should update this information; Opus need not regenerate a status report each time.
- An Opus control chat for explaining progress, coordinating research, coding and review, and presenting decisions that need a person.
- A decision area for approving a specific change, rejecting it, asking for more evidence, or starting the
ana-architectanalysis flow and choosing an exploration model. - Views into the other slots for research, coding and Sol’s review. On a phone, the control view can be the default, with other views available when needed.
In this design, the Opus control chat reuses its existing slot; ana-architect is a temporary analysis flow, not a fifth always-on agent.
Persistent records should work behind the scenes, not become another progress card for a person to interpret. Think of them as recovery and decision receipts: they preserve pending decisions across disconnects, tie each approval to a particular request and version, and help prevent a repeated approval from triggering duplicate work. They do not replace the task list or require a coding session to inherit the full control-chat history.
Roo can bridge to tools, but that is not the same as a live console
Roo’s documentation confirms that MCP can connect Roo to external tools and services.13 A small bridge could therefore let someone in Roo:
- query the overall state and pending decisions;
- retrieve a specific review or analysis result; and
- submit a human decision tied to a particular request version.
That documentation does not establish that background events will appear automatically in Roo’s chat or that Roo can add dedicated approval buttons for this workflow. Those capabilities remain unverified.
If live updates, a fixed status view and dedicated decision controls are requirements, consider a small, separate IDE panel instead of pushing frequent status updates into model conversation. It should use the same state and decision interfaces as the VPS control room, not maintain a second execution queue.
Whichever interface you choose, an approval must come from an explicit human action. An agent’s recommendation—or an automatically approved tool call—should not count as authorization for a change.
Cline’s official TUI is a testable starting point
Cline’s official terminal UI supports conversational work in a terminal, including reviewing plans and approving actions. Its CLI supports both interactive sessions and headless workflows.6
2 Cline’s Agent Teams feature is available for the SDK, CLI and Kanban, but the documentation says it does not currently apply to the VS Code or JetBrains extensions.
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That makes the official TUI worth trying as a control-room interface. It does not mean the following are already built in; each would need to be connected and tested:
- aggregating the four external Pi slots and their health;
- displaying your own change-decision package;
- restoring business approvals after reconnecting; and
- providing the file-tree and diff-review experience you want.
Cline’s SDK documents session persistence, message history and tool-approval callbacks, which could support a thin adapter. That is a basis for integration, not evidence that Cline already implements your decision protocol.4
One important safety detail: the CLI reference says that passing a prompt directly starts in Act mode with auto-approval enabled by default.3 Do not point an initial trial at a production workspace and send it coding tasks on that basis. First define an isolated environment, tool permissions and approval policy.
The available sources do not verify a Roo TUI fork that meets all these requirements, or confirm a specific cline-termux project. There is not enough evidence to recommend either or provide installation commands.
Use one workspace from the IDE and phone
A sensible first access path to test is a phone SSH client or Termux connecting to the same VPS tmux control session—not a second agent installation on the phone.
- In an IDE, a remote terminal can open the same workspace. That is IDE-based access, but it is not Roo’s native chat.
- On a phone, the same control view can show status and let a person handle pending decisions.
- Disconnecting the interface should not restart a task. If a task needs a decision, the relevant work should pause while the request remains available.
- People can continue editing in the IDE. If their edits overlap with agent work, the system should detect the conflict and preserve the human’s changes rather than claiming it can prevent people from editing.
Start with a small end-to-end trial
Before migrating the whole workflow, test one complete human-decision loop:
- Show the four slots, overall progress and pending decisions in the control view.
- When Sol’s review gate raises a concern, pause the relevant task and create a decision request.
- Let the person choose an exploration model for
ana-architect, then present an impact analysis covering whether to keep, relax or replace the gate. - Bind the person’s approval to a specific version of the proposed change, and continue only within the approved scope.
- Disconnect and reconnect. Confirm that the request and its outcome are still visible, and that a repeated approval does not run the work twice.
The practical recommendation is to try Cline’s official TUI first. If it can be adapted to this workflow, keep the integration thin; if not, add a small control-room interface. Keep Roo as an optional compatibility route rather than making background execution depend on it.
The workflow described here has not been tested against the existing four-slot integration or phone access. No software was installed, files changed, tests run or background tasks started.
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Treat the VPS based Opus chat, agent status and human decision points as one reconnectable workspace—not as separate logs to review.
What are the key points to validate first?
Treat the VPS based Opus chat, agent status and human decision points as one reconnectable workspace—not as separate logs to review. Roo’s MCP support can provide a route to external tools, but it does not establish that Roo can display live background updates or custom approval buttons.[13]
What should I do next in practice?
Cline’s official terminal UI supports interactive chats, plan reviews and action approvals, making it a candidate to test; integrating external agent slots and business specific approvals still needs verification.[6][2]