Cline

At a glance

What Cline does

File edits, Terminal commands, Browser use, Plan/Act modes, MCP, Kanban, CLI, SDK

Best for

Autonomous coding agent in VS Code and terminal with full BYO model flexibility

Works well with

Conflicts & caveats

• Cline only supports VS Code and JetBrains IDEs — your IDE is Cursor.
• Replit has its own built-in AI Agent — external integrations like Cline cannot run inside the Replit web IDE.
• Cline does not officially support Xcode. Use GitHub Copilot for Xcode or Direct API.
• Cline has limited or no official Android Studio support. Use GitHub Copilot or JetBrains AI Assistant.
• Lapce has a small plugin ecosystem; Cline may not have an official plugin yet.
• Positron is VS Code-based but tuned for R/Python data science — Cline may install but is not officially supported.
• Cline does not officially support RStudio — use direct API calls or the rstudio.cloud Copilot integration.
• Cline does not officially support Spyder — use the direct API.
• Cursor Mobile only runs Cursor-managed agents and background tasks — local-only integrations like Cline cannot run on the phone.
• Cline does not officially support Eclipse — Copilot, Tabnine, and Codeium are the main supported options.
• Cline does not officially support Apache NetBeans — Copilot and Tabnine are the main supported options.
• @codebase (Cursor) only works with Cursor built-in integration (yours is Cline).
• Continue's codebase indexing only works when the integration is Continue.dev (yours is Cline).
• Windsurf codebase indexing only works with Windsurf Cascade integration (yours is Cline).
• Aider architect mode requires the Aider integration (yours is Cline).