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Open-source AI coding agent with Plan/Act modes and terminal-first workflows.

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  • Cline Desktop: An open-source app for open-weight models

    Meet Cline Desktop, an open-source app for open-weight models. Run parallel AI agents, automate recurring tasks, choose from 300+ models, and extend your workflow with plugins, MCP servers, and skills.

    Cline5 min read

  • DeepSeek wins IMO Gold on 12 cents

    Benchmarking eight AI models on IMO 2026 problems in Cline, we found DeepSeek V4 Flash scored 30/42, clearing the gold medal cutoff for just $0.12. See how open-weight models compare with GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Fable 5, Kimi K3, and more.

    Cline5 min read

  • Building a code review agent on the Cline loop

    Build a code review agent with the Cline SDK using custom tools, guardrails, hooks, and a two-pass review workflow. Learn how to inspect PR diffs, filter false positives, audit tool usage, and post high-signal review comments to GitHub.

    Cline18 min read

  • Open-sourcing evals for open-weight agents

    Learn how Cline evaluates and improves open weight coding agents using Terminal Bench, with practical heuristics for model performance, token efficiency, reasoning, providers, and eval optimization.

    Cline12 min read

  • NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning just landed in Cline

    NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is now available in Cline, bringing a 30B MoE model with 3B active parameters, up to 1M context, and high throughput for agentic coding workflows.

    Cline3 min read

  • Recursive Self Improvement for Coding Agents

    See how recursive self-improvement helped Cline optimize Kimi K3 and achieve an 88.8% SOTA score on Terminal-Bench 2.1 at a fraction of the cost.

    Cline6 min read

  • How to Save Millions by Self-Hosting LLMs

    A practical guide to the economics of self-hosting open-weight LLMs. Using Kimi K2.6 and real production traffic from Cline, this post breaks down GPU memory, inference, batching, pricing, and the point at which self-hosting can save millions.

    Cline40 min read

  • ClinePass, Best of Value for Open-Weight models

    ClinePass is a low-cost monthly subscription that pairs Cline's agent harness with a curated set of open-weight models and 2-5x the standard API rate limits, across every surface Cline runs on.

    Cline5 min read

  • Extending the Cline loop with plugins and hooks

    Learn how to extend the Cline agent loop with plugins and hooks to add custom behavior, lifecycle logging, and enforceable guardrails without rebuilding the harness.

    Cline9 min read

  • Introducing Cline SDK: the upgraded agent runtime, and we rebuilt Cline upon it

    Before “agents” became a buzzword, Cline was the first real agentic coding experience. Cline started with the VSCode extension and helped a generation of developers step into AI coding. It was a great VS Code extension, but as the technology evolves, it also taught us something uncomfortable: the

    Cline6 min read

  • Cline mobile: how to vibe code from your phone

    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 needYour phone and your Mac both need Tailscale

    Cline2 min read

  • Three AIs enter. One survives. What a SIGKILL race reveals about inference speed

    We built an arena where three AI coding agents fight to the death. Each agent runs on different hardware, a different inference stack, and a different economic model. They all receive the same task: write a bash script that kills your opponents, then execute it immediately. The last process standing

    Cline11 min read

Details are compiled from Cline's website and public sources, last verified Oct 3, 2026. Features and pricing change — confirm on the official site before you buy.

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