Cline Agent
Agent / Orchestration · Fully autonomous agentic coding in VS Code with Plan/Act modes and MCP
At a glance
| Setup effort | Low |
| Released | 2024 |
| Open source | Yes |
| Interface | In-editor |
| Model choice | BYO model |
| Guardrails | Approval gates |
| Cost | BYO API key |
| Autonomy | Autonomous |
| Capabilities | Tool use, Multi-step planning, Shell access, Browser, MCP, Git, File editing, Kanban, CLI, SDK |
What Cline Agent does
Tool use, Multi-step planning, Shell access, Browser, MCP, Git, File editing, Kanban, CLI, SDK
Best for
Fully autonomous agentic coding in VS Code with Plan/Act modes and MCP
Works well with
LLM Provider / Model
Integration
Context / RAG
Conflicts & caveats
- Cline Agent with Amazon Nova Micro (≤8K max output) may struggle with multi-file edits. Use models with 16K+ output capacity.
- ⚠️ Cline Agent with on-demand context "Continue codebase indexing" may act on stale code — prefer real-time context (Cursor @codebase, Greptile, GitHub Copilot indexing, Augment Context, CocoIndex, turbopuffer).
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