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\ \ Guides\ \ Cline mobile: how to vibe code from your phone \ \ Tony Loehr • April 15, 2026\ \ 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.\ \ What you need\ \ Your phone and your Mac both need Tailscale installed and signed in to the same tailnet. Tailscale is a free mesh VPN; once both devices are on it, your phone can reach your Mac's local services from anywhere.\ \ Step 1: Start Kanban on your Mac\ \ By default, Cline's Kanban board binds to 127.0.0](/content/blog/cline-mobile-how-to-vibe-code-from-your-phone/index.html)\ \ Insights\ \ Architects or Tenants: Modern AI Stacks Are Being Built on Rented Foundations \ \ Sidd Sant • April 7, 2026\ \ You're building on infrastructure you don't control, can't audit, and can't see degrading in real time.\ \ The Invisible Dependency\ \ For engineers, the inference vendor problem starts with a deceptively simple question: what happens when the model changes and you don't know about it?\ \ Most engineering teams treat their inference provider like a stable API. It isn't. Model versions rotate. Performance characteristics drift. Context window handling changes. Output formats shift in subtle ways that](/content/blog/architects-or-tenants-modern-ai-stacks-are-being-built-on-rented-foundations/index.html)\ \ Prompt Fundamentals\ \ 20 one-shot prompts that turn Kanban into an autonomous coding machine \ \ Tony Loehr • April 6, 2026\ \ We put together 20 starter prompts for the Kanban sidebar chat. They create linked dependency chains, maximize parallel agent execution, and produce real, working code. Install with npm i -g cline.](/content/blog/20-one-shot-prompts-that-turn-kanban-into-an-autonomous-coding-machine/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ Announcing Cline Kanban: a CLI-agnostic app for multi-agent orchestration. \ \ Sidd Sant • March 26, 2026\ \ Here’s the elephant in the room about coding in 2026: the bottleneck isn’t the AI; it’s you.\ \ Not your skill. Not your prompts. Your attention. Your cognitive bandwidth.\ \ If you’ve spent any real time with coding agents, you know the feeling. You start the morning with a clean plan. Spin up a few agents. One is refactoring the auth module. Another is writing tests. A third is scaffolding a new API endpoint. You’re flying.\ \ Then around 10:30 AM, you look up and realize you have 20 terminal window](/content/blog/announcing-kanban/index.html)\ \ The Invisible Trap: The decisions quietly transferring control of your stack to model providers \ \ Sidd Sant • March 20, 2026\ \ Why cheaper compute won't mean cheaper AI, and what your stack is risking right now.\ \ OpenAI projected operating losses of $74 billion in 2028 alone, before an expected pivot to profitability around 2030. Deutsche Bank research calculates that OpenAI's projected cumulative cash burn could exceed $200 billion by 2030 – making it the largest startup loss in business history.\ \ Every token you've sent at subsidized rates has been financed by venture capital and hyperscaler infrastructure deals, with](/content/blog/the-invisible-trap-the-decisions-quietly-transferring-control-of-your-stack-to-model-providers/index.html)\ \ Prompts as playbooks; how infrastructure teams codify operational knowledge \ \ Andrew Gardner • March 10, 2026\ \ Every infrastructure engineer I know runs prompts in their head. They just don't call them that.\ \ You're deploying a new service to production. Without thinking about it, you follow a known sequence to ensure a service will run without impacting existing production workloads. You've done this dozens of times. You don't consult documentation. The checklist lives in your muscle memory, refined by every deployment that went sideways at 2am.\ \ Now think about what happens when you leave. Or when a ne](/content/blog/prompts-as-playbooks-how-infrastructure-teams-codify-operational-knowledge/index.html)\ \ One API key for Claude, Gemini, GPT, and everything else \ \ Tony Loehr • March 4, 2026\ \ If you've built anything on top of AI models in the last year, you know the routine. Sign up for Anthropic's API, generate a key, store it somewhere safe. Do the same for OpenAI. Again for Google. Each provider has its own billing dashboard, its own SDK quirks, its own rate limits. Want to compare Claude against Gemini on the same task? That's two separate integrations, two sets of credentials, two billing statements.\ \ The Cline API eliminates all of that. One endpoint, one API key, access to mo](/content/blog/one-api-key-for-claude-gemini-gpt-and-everything-else/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ A practical guide to hill climbing \ \ Ara Khan • February 26, 2026\ \ We didn't have benchmark numbers, so over a weekend we ran Cline against 89 coding tasks, diagnosed every failure, and shipped fixes that took our score from 47% to 57%. Here's the hill climbing process so you can do it too.](/content/blog/a-practical-guide-to-hill-climbing/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ Post-mortem: Unauthorized Cline CLI npm publish on February 17, 2026 \ \ Saoud Rizwan • February 24, 2026\ \ On February 17th, a compromised npm token was used to publish an unauthorized version of the Cline CLI. No malicious code was delivered, and the Cline VS Code and JetBrains extensions were never affected. Here's the full breakdown of what happened, what we found, and what we've changed.](/content/blog/post-mortem-unauthorized-cline-cli-npm/index.html)\ \ Commit messages aren't just for humans \ \ Tony Loehr • February 18, 2026\ \ Every few years, something shifts in how we write code and our workflows quietly adapt. Version control changed how we think about saving work. Code review changed how we think about readability. CI/CD changed how we think about testing. Now AI coding agents are changing something we barely think about at all: commit messages.\ \ Your commit history has a new audience. And that audience is reading more carefully than most of your teammates ever did.\ \ Here's what that looks like day to day. You ask](/content/blog/commit-messages-arent-just-for-humans/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ Introducing Cline CLI 2.0: from sidebar to the terminal \ \ Juan Pablo Flores • February 13, 2026\ \ An open-source coding agent rebuilt for the terminal, with free models to get started.](/content/blog/introducing-cline-cli-2-0/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ MiniMax M2.5 in Cline: Built for a World Where Agents Work Together \ \ Juan Pablo Flores • February 12, 2026\ \ MiniMax just released M2.5. It's available now in Cline across VS Code, JetBrains, Zed, Neovim, Emacs, and the Cline CLI. MiniMax is offering M2.5 for free for a limited time, so there's no barrier to trying it out.](/content/blog/minimax-m2-5/index.html)\ \ ClawCon SF: Cline's $1M open source grant meets OpenClaw builders \ \ Tony Loehr • February 10, 2026\ \ Last week, hundreds of developers descended on Frontier Tower in San Francisco for ClawCon – and it was unlike any tech event I've been to. Laptop tattoos. Lobster merch flying off tables. The kind of energy that only happens when open source builders get together to celebrate something they actually care about.\ \ Cline co-hosted the event, and I was there representing us. Here's what happened.\ \ pic.twitter.com/5OC9tSZjhq\ \ — Dave Morin (@davemorin) February 5, 2026\ \ What is ClawCon\ \ ClawCon is](/content/blog/clawcon-sf-clines-1m-open-source-grant-meets-openclaw-builders/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ Meet The Deep Thinker: Make the most out Claude Opus 4.6 in Cline \ \ Juan Pablo Flores • February 6, 2026\ \ Anthropic's most intelligent model is now in Cline. We've been testing Claude Opus 4.6 across the extension and the CLI. Here's why we're calling it The Deep Thinker.](/content/blog/meet-the-deep-thinker-make-the-most-out-claude-opus-4-6-in-cline/index.html)\ \ The Worst Instructions You Can Give an AI Coding Agent \ \ Tony Loehr • February 5, 2026\ \ I watched a developer waste $200 in API tokens one afternoon. Not because they were building something trivial – they were tackling important infrastructure work. Not because they were inexperienced – they had 15 years of backend development under their belt. The problem was simpler and more frustrating: they weren't wielding their tools effectively.\ \ Every few minutes, they'd hit revert. The AI would generate code that almost worked but missed the mark. They'd course-correct with another prompt](/content/blog/the-worst-instructions-you-can-give-an-ai-coding-agent/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ Announcing Cline CLI 2.0 with free Kimi K2.5: A major upgrade on both interactive and autonomous agentic coding in terminal \ \ Renee Huang • February 3, 2026\ \ Redesigned terminal UI, better support for running parallel agents, ACP integration for Zed/Neovim/Emacs, and free Kimi K2.5 access (and more to come) during the release.](/content/blog/announcing-cline-cli-2-0/index.html)\ \ Guides\ \ Navigating AI coding tool adoption in automotive environments \ \ Tony Loehr • February 1, 2026\ \ A premium car today contains over 100 million lines of code -- more than a fighter jet, more than Facebook's entire codebase. AI coding assistants promise to help close the productivity gap. But most get rejected before they reach a single developer's machine.](/content/blog/navigating-ai-coding-tool-adoption-in-automotive-environments/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ 5M installs, $1M Open Source Grant program, and the story of how we got here \ \ Saoud Rizwan • January 30, 2026\ \ We surpassed five million installations of Cline across VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, Windsurf, and other editors through OpenVSX.](/content/blog/5m-installs-1m-open-source-grant-program/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ Cline 3.55.0: Arcee Trinity and Kimi K2.5 now in Cline \ \ Juan Pablo Flores • January 28, 2026\ \ Cline 3.55 adds two open models worth paying attention to. Arcee Trinity Large is free, US-built, and licensed under Apache 2.0. Kimi K2.5 is an open-source model that outperforms Opus 4.5 on certain benchmarks.](/content/blog/cline-3-55-0-arcee-trinity-and-kimi-k2-5-now-in-cline/index.html)\ \ The architecture that gets AI coding tools approved \ \ Tony Loehr • January 27, 2026\ \ There's a growing assumption that AI coding assistants are fundamentally incompatible with regulated environments. This belief usually stems from how most AI tools are architected, not from AI-assisted development itself.\ \ Security constraints in these environments are real and non-negotiable. Restricted networks, strict compliance requirements, long approval timelines, and zero tolerance for opaque SaaS dependencies. Whether you're building software that handles financial transactions, processe](/content/blog/the-architecture-that-gets-ai-coding-tools-approved/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ Bring your ChatGPT subscription to Cline \ \ Juan Pablo Flores • January 22, 2026\ \ If you have an OpenAI subscription, you can now use it directly in Cline without managing API keys](/content/blog/introducing-openai-codex-oauth/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ Cline now speaks Jupyter: AI-assisted workflows for data scientists \ \ Tony Loehr • January 22, 2026\ \ Cline now offers comprehensive Jupyter Notebook support, giving data scientists the same AI-assisted experience that developers have come to expect – but designed specifically for how notebooks actually work.](/content/blog/cline-now-speaks-jupyter/index.html)\ \ Cline 3.51.0: GPT‑5.2 Codex support \ \ Juan Pablo Flores • January 16, 2026\ \ Cline 3.51.0 is now available. This release adds support for OpenAI GPT‑5.2 Codex.\ \ OpenAI GPT‑5.2 Codex (gpt-5.2-codex)\ \ Cline 3.51.0 adds support for OpenAI GPT‑5.2 Codex (gpt-5.2-codex).\ \ OpenAI positions GPT‑5.2 Codex as an agentic coding model optimized for real-world software engineering: long-horizon work, big refactors/migrations, and reliable operation in terminal-heavy workflows. It also includes improvements in long-context understanding and tool-calling reliability, and stronger vis](/content/blog/cline-3-51-0-gpt-5-2-codex-support/index.html)\ \ Enterprise AI coding that uses your infrastructure, not ours \ \ Tony Loehr • January 14, 2026\ \ Most AI coding tools require sending code through their servers. For healthcare systems protecting patient records, banks safeguarding transaction data, and defense contractors working with sensitive or classified code, that approach fails immediately.\ \ Security teams block the tool. Developers revert to manual workflows. Productivity drops, not because AI is ineffective, but because the architecture was wrong from the start.\ \ Cline takes a different approach. Your code never leaves your environ](/content/blog/enterprise-ai-coding-that-uses-your-infrastructure-not-ours/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ Agentic Exploration: a new livestream series for developers using Cline \ \ Juan Pablo Flores • January 13, 2026\ \ Biweekly livestream every other Thursday at 9 am PT. One hour of Cline updates, industry expert guests, and Q&A.](/content/blog/agentic-exploration-launch/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ Cline 3.48.0: Skills and websearch make Cline smarter \ \ Juan Pablo Flores • January 10, 2026\ \ Cline 3.48.0 adds Skills compatibility. If you've already built Skills, you can now use them in Cline. This release also adds websearch tooling through the Cline provider, giving Cline access to real-time information when you need it.\ \ Skills\ \ Think about how you'd onboard a new team member. You wouldn't dump every document on them at once. You'd give them an overview, then point them to detailed guides when they're actually working on specific tasks.\ \ Skills work the same way. Each skill is a](/content/blog/cline-3-48-0-skills-and-websearch-make-cline-smarter/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ Cline 3.47.0 adds Background Edits and free MiniMax 2.1 \ \ Juan Pablo Flores • January 6, 2026\ \ One of the most common pieces of feedback we hear: "I want to keep coding while Cline works." When Cline edits a file, it opens the diff view and takes your cursor along with it. That's fine when you're watching Cline work, but not ideal when you want to stay focused on your own code in another file.\ \ Introducing Background Edits\ \ Background Edits is an experimental feature that lets Cline edit files without opening the diff view or stealing your cursor. You stay in your file; Cline works in th](/content/blog/cline-3-47-0-adds-background-edits-and-a-free-minimax-2-1/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ Cline and LG CNS Partner to Develop Agentic AI Solution for Enterprise Development \ \ Nick Baumann • December 18, 2025\ \ We're partnering with LG CNS to build “AI-Native Development” (AIND) an agentic AI solution that handles the entire development lifecycle from requirements to code.](/content/blog/cline-and-lg-cns-partner-to-develop-agentic-ai-solution-for-enterprise-development/index.html)\ \ Guides\ \ AI Slop Detector - Explain Changes in Cline \ \ Tony Loehr • December 18, 2025\ \ What if you could get plain-English explanations for every line of AI-generated code? Meet Cline's Explain Changes feature: your AI slop detector, code review accelerator, and sanity-preservation tool rolled into one.](/content/blog/ai-slop-detector/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ The Cline Provider Now Runs on the Vercel AI Gateway \ \ Nick Baumann • December 16, 2025\ \ Faster response times, zero markup fees, and better global coverage. The Cline provider now runs on Vercel's infrastructure, delivering measurable performance improvements while staying true to our open source values.](/content/blog/cline-provider-now-runs-on-vercel/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ Cline v3.41 adds GPT-5.2, Devstral 2, & ergonomic model switching \ \ Nick Baumann • December 11, 2025\ \ GPT-5.2 brings frontier-level agentic performance. Devstral 2 is the best open-weights option for Cline. And the new model picker makes switching between them instant.](/content/blog/cline-v3-41-adds-gpt-5-2-devstral-2-ergonomic-model-switching/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ Devstral 2: The best open-weights model for Cline just dropped \ \ Juan Pablo Flores • December 9, 2025\ \ The stealth model is finally public: Devstral 2 scores 72.2% on SWE-bench Verified and works smoothly with Cline's multi-step tool workflows. Free for a limited time!](/content/blog/devstral-2-release/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ Cline v3.39 introduces Explain Changes: understand AI-generated code before you ship it \ \ Juan Pablo Flores • December 2, 2025\ \ Understand AI-generated code before you ship it](/content/blog/cline-v3-39-explain-changes/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ Free stealth model "microwave" now available in Cline \ \ Nick Baumann • December 2, 2025\ \ A new agentic coding model built for Cline drops today with free access during alpha.](/content/blog/free-stealth-model-microwave-now-available-in-cline/index.html)\ \ Models\ \ DeepSeek V3.2 and V3.2-Speciale are now available in Cline \ \ Nick Baumann • December 1, 2025\ \ DeepSeek's new reasoning-first models are live. V3.2 for daily agentic coding; V3.2-Speciale for maximum reasoning power. Both at $0.28/$0.42 per million tokens.](/content/blog/deepseek-v3-2-and-v3-2-speciale-are-now-available-in-cline/index.html)\ \ Models\ \ Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 is Live in Cline \ \ Nick Baumann • November 25, 2025\ \ Opus 4.5 is Anthropic's most capable model. Use it for complex multi-step problems, heavy MCP usage, and tasks requiring autonomous reasoning through ambiguity.](/content/blog/anthropics-claude-opus-4-5-is-live-in-cline/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ Introducing cline-bench: A Real-World, Open Source Benchmark for Agentic Coding \ \ Saoud Rizwan • November 20, 2025\ \ A call for contribution to establish reproducible, practical reinforcement learning environments sourced from real open source development work — with a $1M commitment to support open source maintainers.](/content/blog/cline-bench-initiative/index.html)\ \ Models\ \ Gemini 3 Pro gives Cline more headroom for long-running coding \ \ Nick Baumann • November 18, 2025\ \ Gemini 3 Pro extends what Cline can attempt as an autonomous coding agent while keeping you in control.](/content/blog/gemini-3-pro-preview/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ Cline 3.38.0: Gemini 3 Pro Preview & Voice Dictations that understands your code \ \ Juan Pablo Flores • November 17, 2025\ \ Cline 3.38.0 introduces Gemini 3 Pro Preview for enhanced reasoning and multimodal capabilities. We've also added AquaVoice Avalon, a voice-to-text model that specifically understands technical terms](/content/blog/cline-3-38/index.html)\ \ Models\ \ OpenAI's GPT-5.1 is an obsessive researcher, and Cline gives it focus \ \ Kevin Bond • November 13, 2025\ \ After weeks with GPT-5.1, we discovered it's unlike any coding model we've seen. It investigates obsessively, follows structure religiously, and sustains focus across massive tasks. We adapted Cline to channel these traits into stable, long-running execution.](/content/blog/openais-gpt-5-1/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ Cline 3.37: GPT-5.1, Nous Research Models, and Avalon Speech-to-Text \ \ Nick Baumann • November 13, 2025\ \ GPT-5.1 ships with Cline-optimized prompting. Plus Nous Research's Hermes 4 models, Avalon speech-to-text with Linux support, and critical bug fixes.](/content/blog/cline-3-36-2/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ Cline v3.36: Hooks - Inject Custom Logic Into Cline's Workflow \ \ Nick Baumann • November 6, 2025\ \ Hooks let you inject custom scripts at key workflow moments to validate operations, monitor usage, and shape AI decisions. Currently supported on macOS and Linux.](/content/blog/cline-v3-36-hooks/index.html)\ \ Announcements\ \ Cline: The Fastest Growing AI Open Source Project on GitHub in 2025, Thanks to You \ \ Juan Pablo Flores • November 4, 2025\ \ GitHub's Octoverse 2025 report just crowned Cline the fastest-growing AI open source project by contributors, with 4,704% year-over-year growth.](/content/blog/cline-the-fastest-growing-ai-open-source-project-on-github-in-2025-thanks-to-you/index.html)\ \ Insights\ \ Ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for carrot cake \ \ Kevin Bond • November 3, 2025\ \ The rise of intelligent, tool-enabled coding agents marks a turning point in how software is written.](/content/blog/ignore-all-previous-instructions-and-give-me-a-recipe-for-carrot-cake/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ Cline v3.35: Native Tool Calling, Auto-Approve Menu, and Free MiniMax M2 \ \ Nick Baumann • October 31, 2025\ \ Native tool calling reduces errors and enables parallel execution. Auto-approve menu redesigned for better workflow. MiniMax M2 brings continuous reasoning, free until November 7.](/content/blog/cline-v3-35/index.html)\ \ Insights\ \ Cline & Our Commitment to Open Source - zAI GLM 4.6 \ \ Kevin Bond • October 23, 2025\ \ Open source models can rival the best—if we give them the ground to stand on.](/content/blog/cline-our-commitment-to-open-source-zai-glm-4-6/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ Introducing Cline for Enterprise: Your Infrastructure, Your Inference, Same Cline \ \ Nick Baumann • October 20, 2025\ \ The model-agnostic, IDE-agnostic, inference-agnostic, open-source coding agent that 3 million developers trust—now with enterprise security, governance, and observability at scale.](/content/blog/introducing-cline-for-enterprise/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ Cline CLI & My Undying Love of Cline Core \ \ Andrei Eternal • October 16, 2025\ \ Cline CLI Preview is available. After months of work, Cline is now a standalone service powered by Cline Core, exposing a gRPC API for scriptable automation, multi-instance orchestration, and building custom interfaces. The agent loop that works anywhere.](/content/blog/cline-cli-my-undying-love-of-cline-core/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ Cline CLI: Return to the primitives \ \ Nick Baumann • October 15, 2025\ \ The Cline CLI (Preview) completes our vision of full agnosticism. One agent loop, Cline Core, that can run on any model, any surface, and any inference. The primitive for AI coding that enables everyone to build their own interfaces. Now available for Linux and macOS.](/content/blog/cline-cli-return-to-the-primitives/index.html)\ \ Insights\ \ Plan/Act model usage patterns in Cline \ \ Nick Baumann • October 9, 2025\ \ Analysis of Plan/Act model usage patterns from the last 7 days](/content/blog/plan-act-model-usage-patterns-in-cline/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ GLM-4.6 vs Sonnet 4.5 — Open-Source Diff-Edit Convergence | Cline Report \ \ Nick Baumann • October 2, 2025\ \ Cline’s real-world telemetry shows Sonnet 4.5 at 96.2% and GLM-4.6 at 94.9% diff-edit success. The open-source gap is down to basis points. Try both in Cline.](/content/blog/open-source-progress-continues-with-the-release-of-glm-4-6-in-cline/index.html)\ \ Guides\ \ Which local models actually work with Cline? AMD tested them all \ \ Nick Baumann • September 30, 2025\ \ After extensive testing, AMD found only specific models work reliably with Cline. Here's your complete guide to choosing the right model for your RAM.](/content/blog/local-models-amd/index.html)\ \ Models\ \ Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Live in Cline \ \ Nick Baumann • September 29, 2025\ \ Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 is now in Cline, bringing 200k context, test-first workflows, and autonomous docs — built for real software development.](/content/blog/claude-sonnet-4-5/index.html)\ \ Models\ \ New stealth model: Code-Supernova Gets a Million Token Context Window \ \ Nick Baumann • September 26, 2025\ \ The stealth model gets 5x more context. Code-supernova now handles 1 million tokens.](/content/blog/code-supernova-1-million/index.html)\ \ Guides\ \ How I stopped repeating myself to Cline \ \ Nick Baumann • September 26, 2025\ \ If you're typing the same instructions to your agent every week, you're the process. Write them once as a markdown workflow, invoke with a slash command, and watch the agent execute with verification.](/content/blog/how-i-stopped-repeating-myself-to-cline/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ Cline v3.31: Voice Mode, Task Header Redesign, YOLO Mode \ \ Nick Baumann • September 25, 2025\ \ In v3.31, we're making Cline feel more natural to interact with. Three features that reduce the friction between what you want to build and getting it built.](/content/blog/cline-v3-31/index.html)\ \ Models\ \ GPT-5-Codex Now in Cline \ \ Nick Baumann • September 23, 2025\ \ OpenAI's GPT-5-Codex, optimized for coding agents, is now available in Cline with adaptive reasoning that uses 93% fewer tokens on simple tasks and 2x more on complex ones.](/content/blog/gpt-5-codex/index.html)\ \ Models\ \ Free Stealth Model "code-supernova" Now Available in Cline \ \ Nick Baumann • September 19, 2025\ \ A mysterious coding model built for agentic coding, "code-supernova", drops in Cline with free access during alpha](/content/blog/code-supernova-stealth-model/index.html)\ \ Models\ \ zAI and Cline deliver frontier-level AI coding for just $3 \ \ Nick Baumann • September 18, 2025\ \ How zAI's GLM Coding Plans change the economics of AI development -- $3/month gets you what otherwise costs $200](/content/blog/zai-cline-3-dollar-ai-coding/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ Cline for JetBrains is Here \ \ Nick Baumann • September 17, 2025\ \ Cline is model agnostic, inference agnostic, and now platform agnostic -- running natively in JetBrains alongside VS Code. Your models, your providers, your IDE, no lock-in at any layer.](/content/blog/cline-for-jetbrains/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ Launching LLMs Fundamentals \ \ Juan Pablo Flores • September 16, 2025\ \ With LLMs multiplying fast, our new Fundamentals module helps you master model selection, tradeoffs, and coding workflows.](/content/blog/launching-llms-fundamentals/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ AI Coding University: Core Skills for Building with AI Coding Agents \ \ Juan Pablo Flores • September 12, 2025\ \ We’re launching AI Coding University to help developers build the core skills for agentic coding.](/content/blog/ai-coding-university/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ Cline v3.28: Free Grok Extended + GPT-5 Optimized \ \ Nick Baumann • September 12, 2025\ \ xAI extends free Grok access while we ship GPT-5 optimizations that actually matter for real coding tasks.](/content/blog/cline-v3-28-free-grok-extended-gpt-5-optimized/index.html)\ \ Guides\ \ Stop Adding Rules When You Need Workflows \ \ Nick Baumann • September 10, 2025\ \ Most developers clutter their context with rules when they should build workflows. Workflows inject instructions on-demand and consume tokens only when invoked, while clinerules append to every system prompt.](/content/blog/stop-adding-rules-when-you-need-workflows/index.html)\ \ Models\ \ Sonoma Alpha Sky & Dusk Models: Real-World Performance in Cline \ \ Nick Baumann • September 9, 2025\ \ Two mysterious models with 2M context windows appeared on major AI gateways. We tracked their performance across thousands of real coding tasks to see if the hype matches reality.](/content/blog/sonoma-alpha-sky-dusk-models-cline/index.html)\ \ Models\ \ Kimi K2-0905: Moonshot’s Latest Open-Source Model is Live in Cline \ \ Juan Pablo Flores • September 5, 2025\ \ Kimi K2-0905 doubles the context window to 256k tokens and delivers some of the highest reliability tool calling we've seen in an open-source model. Built for coding agents that actually work.](/content/blog/moonshot-kimi-k2-0905/index.html)\ \ Guides\ \ Cline + LM Studio: the local coding stack with Qwen3 Coder 30B \ \ Nick Baumann • August 28, 2025\ \ For the first time, local models are powerful enough to run Cline effectively on a laptop.](/content/blog/local-models/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ Cline v3.26.6: Three Ways to Code for Free \ \ Nick Baumann • August 28, 2025\ \ hello!\ \ Three major capabilities land in Cline v3.26.6, each offering a different path to free AI-powered coding. Whether you want cloud speed, local privacy, or generous daily limits, this release has you covered.\ \ Speed without the wait\ \ xAI's Grok Code Fast model is now available in Cline, delivering responses so quickly that waiting for the model stops being a bottleneck in your workflow. Built specifically for agentic coding workflows, it excels at the iterative development sessions that d](/content/blog/cline-v3-26-6-three-ways-to-code-for-free/index.html)\ \ Models\ \ Grok Code Fast 1: xAI's Latest Model Lands in Cline (Free for a Week) \ \ Nick Baumann • August 28, 2025\ \ Say hello to Grok Code Fast – or as you've known it, Sonic.](/content/blog/grok-code-fast/index.html)\ \ 3 Seductive Traps in Agent Building \ \ Ara Khan • August 26, 2025\ \ In building AI agents at Cline, we've discovered that the most dangerous ideas aren't the obviously bad ones, they're the seductive ones that sound brilliant in theory but fail in practice.](/content/blog/3-seductive-traps-in-agent-building/index.html)\ \ New Stealth Model in Cline: "Sonic" \ \ Nick Baumann • August 20, 2025\ \ Free stealth model is now available in Cline](/content/blog/new-stealth-model-in-cline-sonic/index.html)\ \ Guides\ \ How to Think about Context Engineering in Cline \ \ Nick Baumann • August 19, 2025\ \ The Cline Context Playbook: when to use Deep Planning, Focus Chain, Auto Compact, /smol, /newtask, and Memory Bank](/content/blog/how-to-think-about-context-engineering-in-cline/index.html)\ \ Insights\ \ Focus: attention isn’t enough \ \ Kevin Bond • August 15, 2025\ \ Bigger context windows don’t stop coding agents from drifting. Cline’s new Focus Chain keeps every step anchored to the goal — so even the longest tasks finish exactly where they’re meant to.](/content/blog/focus-attention-isnt-enough/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ Cline v3.25: The Coding Agent Built for Hard Problems \ \ Nick Baumann • August 15, 2025\ \ In v3.25, Cline never lets go of the thread.](/content/blog/cline-v3-25/index.html)\ \ Two Ways to Advantage of Claude Sonnet 4's 1M Context Window in Cline \ \ Nick Baumann • August 13, 2025\ \ Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1 million tokens of context – a 5x increase from the previous 200K limit.](/content/blog/two-ways-to-advantage-of-claude-sonnet-4s-1m-context-window-in-cline/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ OpenAI's GPT-5 is here. What can you expect from it in Cline? \ \ Nick Baumann • August 7, 2025\ \ The most intelligent and reliable coding model from OpenAI is now available in Cline – and it's half the price of Sonnet 4.](/content/blog/gpt-5/index.html)\ \ Instant Code Generation is Here: Cline x Cerebras \ \ Nick Baumann • August 1, 2025\ \ Every developer knows the feeling. You're in flow, building something complex, and then – you wait. The model thinks. You watch the tokens slowly stream in. Your mind wanders. By the time the response arrives, you've lost your train of thought.\ \ Today, that changes. We're partnering with Cerebras to deliver code generation at 2,000 tokens per second in Cline. That's 40x faster than typical providers.\ \ No more waiting. Your thoughts flow directly into working code.\ \ How They Do It\ \ Cerebras didn](/content/blog/instant-code-generation-is-here-cline-x-cerebras/index.html)\ \ Cline Raises $32M Building the Open-source AI Coding Agent that Enterprises Trust \ \ Saoud Rizwan • July 31, 2025\ \ Cline has raised $32M in combined Series A and Seed funding, led by Emergence Capital and Pace Capital, with participation from 1984 Ventures](/content/blog/cline-raises-32m-series-a-and-seed-funding-building-the-open-source-ai-coding-agent-that-enterprises-trust/index.html)\ \ Insights\ \ The Economic Realities of Commodity Subscription Models \ \ Nick Baumann • July 28, 2025\ \ The age of AI coding subscriptions is ending. Not because companies want it to, but because the economics force it. When you can arbitrage a subscription in a commodity market, the market will take full advantage. Direct usage-based pricing is the only market-efficient outcome.](/content/blog/the-economic-realities-of-commodity-subscription-models/index.html)\ \ Insights\ \ Moonshot's Kimi K2 for Coding: Our First Impressions in Cline \ \ Nick Baumann • July 14, 2025\ \ Test Kimi K2, the open-source model achieving 65.8% on SWE-bench. Available now in Cline.](/content/blog/moonshots-kimi-k2-for-coding-our-first-impressions-in-cline/index.html)\ \ Guides\ \ How to use Cline from Cursor or Windsurf \ \ Nick Baumann • July 8, 2025\ \ Whether it be an Anthropic API key or using the Cline provider for inference, you can expect to pay what the provider charges for their inference, and none more. Cline doesn't charge any platform fees.](/content/blog/how-to-use-cline-from-cursor-or-windsurf/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ Cline v3.18.1-4: We Fixed the Terminal \ \ Nick Baumann • July 7, 2025\ \ Andrei fixed the terminal!\ \ Cline v3.18.1-4 is a patch release series that addresses the terminal output issues that have been affecting your smooth usage of Cline.](/content/blog/cline-v3-18-1-4-we-fixed-the-terminal/index.html)\ \ Insights\ \ How I Learned to Stop Course-Correcting and Start Using Message Checkpoints \ \ Nick Baumann • July 2, 2025\ \ Why hitting the reset button will actually save you time instead of fighting an upstream context current.](/content/blog/how-i-learned-to-stop-course-correcting-and-start-using-message-checkpoints/index.html)\ \ MCP\ \ 5 Recommended MCP Servers for Cline \ \ Nick Baumann • June 30, 2025\ \ By connecting Cline to specialized servers for search, documentation, browser control, and more, you can create a workflow that gives Cline access to context outside of your codebase and your model's knowledge cutoff.](/content/blog/5-tool-mcp-starter-pack-for-cline/index.html)\ \ Cline v3.18: Optimized Claude 4 \ \ Nick Baumann • June 26, 2025\ \ Cline v3.18 is a focused release that introduces the Gemini CLI as a provider, delivers significant performance and reliability upgrades for the Claude 4 family, and ships several important core improvements.](/content/blog/cline-v3-18-gemini-cli-provider-optimized-claude-4/index.html)\ \ Guides\ \ How to Use Your Claude Max Subscription in Cline \ \ Nick Baumann • June 24, 2025\ \ Tap into your existing Claude Max or Pro subscription to use Cline without paying per-message pricing.](/content/blog/how-to-use-your-claude-max-subscription-in-cline/index.html)\ \ Improving Diff Edits by 10% \ \ Nick Baumann • June 24, 2025\ \ When it comes to modifying code, Cline has two primary methods in its toolkit: \ \ 1. write_to_file for creating or overwriting entire files, and \ 2. replace_in_file for making surgical, targeted changes (diff edits).\ \ We call these targeted changes "diff edits," and their reliability is fundamental to the agent's performance. As part of our push to optimize every core subsystem of the agent, we've been intensely focused on improving the success rate of these diff edits.\ \ The result? We recently](/content/blog/improving-diff-edits-by-10/index.html)\ \ AWS & Cline: 35 New MCP Servers to Manage Your Cloud with AI \ \ Nick Baumann • June 22, 2025\ \ We're excited to announce that Amazon Web Services has officially contributed 35 new Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to the Cline ecosystem. This is a major milestone that extends the power of AI to nearly every corner of the AWS platform, allowing developers to manage their entire cloud infrastructure using natural language.\ \ For a long time, managing a complex cloud environment meant juggling dozens of consoles, dashboards, and configuration files. With these new MCP servers, that complex](/content/blog/aws-cline-35-new-mcp-servers-to-manage-your-cloud-with-ai/index.html)\ \ .clinerules: Version-Controlled, Shareable, and AI-Editable Instructions \ \ Nick Baumann • June 21, 2025\ \ For some time, Cline offered two ways to provide persistent guidance: a simple "Custom Instructions" text box and the more robust, file-based .clinerules system. While the text box was a familiar starting point, it was always a stepping stone. Today, we're fully embracing the more powerful paradigm by deprecating the old Custom Instructions feature to focus entirely on .clinerules.\ \ The reason is simple: treating instructions as code is fundamentally better. A single, static text box doesn’t sca](/content/blog/clinerules-version-controlled-shareable-and-ai-editable-instructions/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ Cline v3.17.14: New Provider Options, Terminal Upgrades, and Core Fixes \ \ Nick Baumann • June 18, 2025\ \ Hello Cline community 🫡\ \ v3.17.14 is focused on expanding provider support, refining the terminal experience, and shipping a handful of important stability improvements.\ \ New Provider Integrations\ \ We're committed to making Cline as flexible as possible, and that means letting you plug in the tools you already use. This release adds support for two new API providers.\ \* SAP AI Core: We've also added support for SAP AI Core, enabling users to connect to both Claude and GPT models through the s](/content/blog/cline-v3-17-14-new-provider-options-terminal-upgrades-and-core-fixes/index.html)\ \ The Last AI Coding Agent \ \ Nick Baumann • June 14, 2025\ \ It feels like every month there's a new "must-have" AI coding tool. The FOMO is real; but so is the fatigue of constantly switching, learning new workflows, and migrating settings. It’s exhausting, but that's the price for developers who want to be armed with the greatest leverage powered by AI.\ \ The magic of AI coding isn't just in the tool itself; it's in the power of the underlying model. And the "best" model is a moving target. One year ago, GPT-4o led the way. Then Anthropic's Claude 3.5 So](/content/blog/the-last-ai-coding-agent-youll-need/index.html)\ \ We're Fixing Cline's PR Contributor Process \ \ Toshi • June 13, 2025\ \ We really appreciate all our contributors who have submitted code, ideas, and other improvement to Cline. For me it's honestly been one of the coolest parts of being involved with this project. The creativity, expertise, and dedication I've see from our community has always blown me away. Thank you so much!\ \ Current state\ \ We've been working hard to merge as many community contributions as possible, but let's be real, our existing system isn't working. Our PR backlog keeps growing, and that's o](/content/blog/were-evolving-clines-pr-contributor-process/index.html)\ \ Why Human Intent Matters More as AI Capabilities Grow \ \ Nick Baumann • June 7, 2025\ \ Remember when AI coding meant tab autocomplete? The human did 95% of the work: navigating the codebase, finding the right files, locating the exact spot to edit, beginning to type, and only then could AI offer a helpful suggestion. The human was the driver, AI was barely a passenger.\ \ Today's agentic AI can search codebases, read files, write entire modules, refactor systems, and orchestrate complex changes across multiple files. With tools like Cline, AI has eaten up nearly the entire coding pi](/content/blog/why-human-intent-matters-more-as-ai-capabilities-grow/index.html)\ \ What Makes a Coding Agent? \ \ Nick Baumann • June 4, 2025\ \ When developers first encounter Cline, they often describe it as their "AGI moment" – that pivotal instant when they realize AI has crossed from helpful suggestion tool to genuine coding partner. But what exactly separates a true coding agent from the growing crowd of AI-powered development tools? The answer lies in understanding what the word "agent" actually means.\ \ Defining the Agent\ \ OpenAI defines an agent as "a system that independently accomplishes tasks on your behalf." Anthropic takes](/content/blog/what-makes-a-coding-agent/index.html)\ \ Why We Built Cline to Never Hold You Hostage \ \ Nick Baumann • June 4, 2025\ \ Yesterday, Windsurf users lost access to Claude 3.x models with five days' notice. OpenAI's acquisition of Windsurf created competitive tensions with Anthropic, and developers got caught in the crossfire.\ \ Picture this: you're deep into a critical project, and suddenly your AI coding assistant is crippled by corporate politics. Free tier users lost access entirely; paid subscribers face severe capacity constraints.\ \ This validates why we built Cline differently from day one.\ \ When Corporate War](/content/blog/why-we-built-cline-to-never-hold-you-hostage/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ Cline 3.17.9: Enhanced Claude 4 Support (Experimental), Upgraded Task Timeline & CSV/XLSX Support \ \ Nick Baumann • June 4, 2025\ \ Hello Cline community 🫡\ \ We've been burning the candle at both ends to make Cline work as well as possible with the new Claude 4 family of models, and we're excited to share that Cline 3.17.9 includes experimental Claude 4 support that addresses reliability issues, an upgraded task timeline with scrolling navigation, and expanded file upload capabilities for data analysis.\ \ Experimental Claude 4 Support\ \ If you've been using Claude 4 with Cline, you've probably noticed some frustrating edit fai](/content/blog/cline-3-17-9-enhanced-claude-4-support-experimental-upgraded-task-timeline-csv-xlsx-support/index.html)\ \ Insights\ \ Why Cline Doesn't Index Your Codebase (And Why That's a Good Thing) \ \ Nick Baumann • May 27, 2025\ \ Here's a common question we get from prospective Cline users: "How does Cline handle large codebases? Do you use RAG to index everything?"\ \ It's a reasonable question. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the go-to solution for giving AI systems access to large knowledge bases. But for Cline, we've taken a deliberately different path. We don't index your codebase, and this choice isn't an oversight, it's a fundamental design decision that delivers better code quality, stronger securit](/content/blog/why-cline-doesnt-index-your-codebase-and-why-thats-a-good-thing/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ 3.17: Global Workflows, UX Improvements, and More \ \ Nick Baumann • May 24, 2025\ \ Cline v3.17 brings several solid improvements to enhance your development workflow. The highlight is Global Workflows – a feature many of you have been requesting – along with a redesigned settings interface and expanded provider support.\ \ Global Workflows\ \ The standout feature in this release is global workflows. If you've built a workflow that works brilliantly in one project, you can now share it across all your workspaces.\ \ Here's how it works:\ \* Global workflows live in ~/Documents/Cline](/content/blog/3-17-global-workflows-ux-improvements-and-more/index.html)\ \ Updates\ \ Cline v3.16: One-Shot Automation with Workflows, Plus UI & Stability Gains \ \ Nick Baumann • May 21, 2025\ \ Welcome to Cline v3.16! We're really excited about this release, especially a new feature that's already making a big difference for our own team: Workflows. It's already saving our team countless hours and we know it can do the same for you. Let's get to it!\ \ → Workflows → Your Personal Automation Powerhouse\ \ You know those repetitive sequences you find yourself doing all the time? Setting up a new project module, running through a pre-commit checklist, or even the detailed steps for a PR revi](/content/blog/cline-v3-16-one-shot-automation-with-workflows-plus-ui-stability-gains/index.html)\ \ Guides\ \ Cline: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced – Finding Your Ideal Setup \ \ Nick Baumann • May 16, 2025\ \ When you first dive into a powerful tool like Cline, it's natural to wonder, "What's the best way to set this up?" The beauty of Cline is that it's designed to adapt and grow with you. There isn't a one-size-fits-all answer, but rather a spectrum of configurations that can match your immediate needs and the complexity of the tasks you're tackling.\ \ This post will walk you through three common setup approaches – Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. My goal is to help you find what works best for](/content/blog/cline-beginner-intermediate-advanced-finding-your-ideal-setup/index.html)

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