.clinerules folder support

[rube-de]

Cline has support for for both .clinerules file, but new also a .clinerules folder.
I think that is helpful for having easier way to manage the rules.

Roo has custom modes for granular rules, but if I want a BDD custom mode aware of rules which are project-wide for frontend and backend architecture, it would be helpful.

[C-Digi]

Agreed, also when using a rules file for each Mode, all of these are saved in the root directory of the project. I would prefer them grouped into a folder (such as the .roo folder recently added for the mcp config file) for better project organization.

[upamune]

@mrubens In the case of a monorepo, since the rules to be adopted vary depending on people and teams, I would like to have support for a .roo/rules directory. I've written a Design Doc, but what are your thoughts? Wouldn't Roo-Code want to support the rules directory?

https://hackmd.io/@upamune/roo-rule-directory

[mrubens]

Yeah that makes a lot of sense to me!

[mrubens]

I’d want to talk a little more about the modes side of the migration, but I think that could be a separate project.

[upamune]

It's intriguing. While the existing .roomodes is fine to modify from the Roo-Code UI, it's very difficult to open and rewrite directly in the editor.

Therefore, to avoid this, I write roomodes in Markdown+Frontmatter and have created a tool to ultimately convert it to .roomodes.
https://github.com/upamune/roomode

[mrubens]

Ha, awesome! And sorry that my bad choice of JSON made it so you had to do that 🙃

I started playing around last night with a draft PR to convert mode files to yaml. Feedback welcome! #2342

[upamune]

Great! I'll check the Pull Request later 😄

[mrubens]

@upamune's PR is live in 3.11.9! You can add rules in .roo/rules/ and .roo/rules-{mode}/

[absurdly-nerdly]

you guys rock!!!