Cline
★ 70.9kA self-hosted alternative to Cursor, Lovable, Claude Code
About
Cline is an open source coding agent designed to work inside an IDE or from the terminal. It targets developers who want an assistant that can read a codebase, propose changes, run commands, and help...
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Features
- terminal CLI
- headless CI/CD mode
- VS Code extension
- JetBrains plugin
- codebase-aware edits
- diff review and revert
- Bash command execution
- plan and act modes
- project rules and skills
- multi-agent teams
Details
- Last Updated
- Oct 28, 2026
- Created
- Jul 6, 2024
- Install Methods
- package-manager
- Requirements
- Node.jsVS Code or JetBrains IDEs for the editor extensionsAnthropic, OpenAI, Google, OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, AWS Bedrock, Azure/GCP Vertex, Cerebras/Groq, Ollama/LM Studio, or any OpenAI-compatible API
- API
- REST
- Backup & Export
- file-backup
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: Optional
- User Model
- Multi-UserMulti-Tenant
- Deployment
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