Cline
Cline is an autonomous coding agent available through IDE, CLI and SDK surfaces. It fits development workflows that need an agent to operate on software tasks while remaining accessible from the tools a developer already uses.
- Company
- Cline Bot Inc.
- Category
- AI coding agent
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Product history
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Cline released its rebuilt SDK-based agent runtime on May 13, 2026, unifying the runtime used across its VS Code, JetBrains and CLI product surfaces.
Introducing Cline SDK: the upgraded agent runtime, and we rebuilt Cline upon it ↗Practitioner notes
Public issue and forum reports add workflow context for Cline. Each note reflects its cited source and observed context. Frequency remains unmeasured.
A separate May 2026 Cline report describes models moving from Plan to Act behavior without the user intentionally approving implementation. With the August report this supports a recurring practitioner friction theme around Plan/Act control boundaries across distinct versions, while prevalence and current fixed-state remain unknown.
An August 2026 report on Cline 4.1.7 describes file edits occurring while the user expected Plan mode to remain non-mutating. It is a recent version-specific control-boundary report and should not be generalized to every model/provider combination.