Cline AI

Cline AI is an open-source AI coding agent that integrates directly into VS Code, JetBrains, and the terminal. With Cline, you can understand complex codebases, carry out large-scale refactorings, and automate recurring workflows—all without leaving your development environment. The tool is fully open source and has been downloaded over 5 million times.

Cline gives developers a complete AI-powered coding assistant with powerful features:

Cline Desktop is now available for Linux in an early beta. The app can be used with ClinePass, free models and your own API keys (BYOK). With Cline Cloud Agents, you can use Cline directly from the browser. The task runs in a secure cloud sandbox where Cline writes code, tests its work and opens a PR on your GitHub repo. Cline Cloud sessions let you run a task in a hosted sandbox on a GitHub repo and branch you pick. The feature is rolling out gradually and is enabled in the settings.

Benefits:

• Understand and navigate large codebases with AI-powered questions about files, dependencies, and behavior

• Refactor code across entire projects while Cline keeps imports, types, and logic consistent

• Automate tasks via Cline CLI in scripts, cron jobs, and CI/CD pipelines

• Integrate with any AI model, including Claude, and tailor the agent to your needs

• Use the MCP marketplace to expand the agent's capabilities with your own tools and plugins

Cline is a perfect fit for independent developers who want to build faster, tech leads managing large codebases, and DevOps engineers who want to automate repetitive workflows.