Cline

agent

Autonomous coding agent with 5M+ installs — runs in VS Code, JetBrains, and a terminal CLI that shares config, MCP servers and rules with the IDE install. Plan/Act modes, browser use, BYO model.

01At a glance

interfaces

ide · cli

models

claude, gpt, gemini, open-weights (configurable)

pricing

Free, Apache-2.0; pay only your model provider.

source

github.com/cline/cline

license

Apache-2.0

kind

coding-agent

02Install

shell

npm install -g cline
# or
code --install-extension saoudrizwan.claude-dev

03Invoke

method