Cline

Autonomous coding agent inside VS Code, with approval gates.

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Open source Self-hostable MCP support free
LicenseApache-2.0
Starting priceBYOK usage cost
Model supportclaude, gpt, gemini, byok
Languagestypescript
GitHub stars63.9k
Last activity2026-06-25
VerifiedThu Jun 25 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
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A VS Code extension that runs an autonomous agent with plan and act modes, requiring approval before destructive steps.

Strengths

  • Approval gates make autonomous edits safe
  • Runs inside the editor you already use

Tradeoffs

  • VS Code only
  • Token-heavy on large tasks

Knowledge

Curated, novelty-scored insights for Cline, drawn from verified sources. The pipeline ingests video transcripts and extracts only the claims that add new signal.

Plan versus Act modes are the safety model: Plan proposes a diff, Act executes it, and approval gates stop destructive edits.
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