Feature Request: Disable attempt_completion tool

[deathtothenig]

This is the first thing I remove when I update Roo Cline. I hate it. I was using claude.ai chat before moving to this extension and you could have an ongoing conversation where Claude retains context for related tasks without him constantly trying to end the conversation by marking it as complete.

With the attempt_completion tool, Cline is constantly marking tasks as completed when they aren't. There are either problems that need to be fixed or the task has other things that weren't finished.

All I do is remove the code for the attempt_completion tool, but you would want to add an option to disable it in the settings. It's good for all modes, because even in the ask and architecture modes, which are amazing and solved one of the other problems I had, which was Cline running off and coding something I didn't ask for when I just wanted to discuss how to do something, I believe Cline will mark a task as complete after he has answered your original question.

The experience is 10x when you can just keep an ongoing chat without ever having Cline try to end it with the green wall of text. I also modified the prompt so that instead of trying to use the attempt_completion tool Cline is instructed to ask if everything works or if the user has any questions about what was done and that's what Cline does now when he thinks he has completed a task or answered my question.

[deathtothenig]

This is a must-have feature. Once you try it, you will agree.

[mrubens]

Interesting! Can you tell me more about the mods you make to the prompt when you turn off attempt completion?

[deathtothenig]

Actually, now that you have custom modes where you can select available tools, if you just make attempt_completion an optional tool then you would be able to disable it by making a custom mode and unchecking it's box on this page below. In terms of the prompt, I just remove all mention of using the attempt_completion tool and in the place of that text I just say once you've completed a task ask the user if they have any questions about what was done or if you can help with anything else.

[yasselpiloto]

this worked for me
/newtask do not call attempt_completion tool without asking me first

[nikhilgikiai]

i add it in .roo/rules-orchestrator/rules.md with high emphasis, usually works very reliably with any phrasing.

[dsent]

this worked for me /newtask do not call attempt_completion tool without asking me first

This will break automated "boomerang tasks," though.

[nikhilgikiai]

Yes it does, I don’t use this now. When I did I did this only for orchestrator mode.

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