Cline
Autonomous coding agent for your editor
Cline is an open-source AI coding agent that runs inside VS Code and can read, edit, and execute code with your approval. It can be pointed at self-hosted or local model endpoints so no code leaves your infrastructure.
Key features
- Agentic edits with approval
- Works with local LLM endpoints
- Terminal command execution
- Model Context Protocol support
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- Mature project with 65.8k GitHub stars
- Written in TypeScript
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