Cline

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An engineer at Cline told me he was vibe coding on a road trip from his phone. His Mac was at home running Cline agents; he was checking on them from the passenger seat. Here's the setup.

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Open-source AI coding agent with Plan/Act modes, MCP integration, and terminal-first workflows. Trusted by 11M+ developers worldwide.

Cline Bot is expanding its open-source AI coding harness beyond coding, letting users choose lower-cost inference when frontier models are unnecessary. CEO Renee Huang says the company’s evaluation system, built over two years using real-world traffic, tunes the harness for both frontier and smaller models; token consumption has grown 20x over four months, with much of the inference running on CoreWeave’s serverless platform. Cline has open-sourced evaluations for open-weight agents and is extending beyond IDEs and the command line with Cline Desktop.

Oct 2026SiliconANGLENews article

Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.

Jul 2026clineRepository

Cline described a mobile workflow for monitoring coding agents and Kanban remotely.

Apr 2026Cline BlogNews article

Cline announced Kanban, a CLI-agnostic app for coordinating parallel coding agents and dependency-linked tasks. The app supports multi-agent orchestration.

Mar 2026Cline BlogNews article