u/saoudriz

We rebuilt the Cline harness for our extensions and CLI from scratch using all the lessons learned since building the first coding agent in 2024, and are open sourcing it for others to build on top of.

• Built with a plugin architecture that makes it easy to customize, works with any provider and model, and comes with all the features you expect from agents like checkpoints, web search, MCPs, cron jobs, subagents, and more.
• Cline leads on Terminal Bench 2.0 across Claude Opus and most open weights models we tested. On Claude Opus 4.6, Cline scores 71.9% vs Droid at 69.9% and Claude Code at 65.4%. We’ve accomplished this with carefully crafted context management, optimized for how SOTA models are RL-trained.
• We've also created example apps for you to see how easy it is to build with the Cline SDK. Including a Slack bot, VS Code extension, and fully featured desktop app: https://github.com/cline/cline/tree/main/sdk/apps/examples

Try the new Cline CLI, now rebuilt on the SDK with a new TUI, agent teams, scheduled cron jobs, and connectors for slack/telegram/discord: npm i -g cline

To build your own agent use: npm i @cline/sdk

…or give your agent the Cline SDK skill: npx skills add cline/sdk-skill

Learn more: https://x.com/cline/status/2054580767779700775

Hello from the Cline team 👋

We've been heads-down on a ground-up rewrite of our extension and CLI for the past couple months, and we need help beta testing to bring it over the finish line.

Why we did this

The original Cline shipped right after Claude 3.5 Sonnet dropped. It was the first coding agent that actually worked, and we built it extension-first for the IDE. Great in its time, but the architecture got tightly coupled to IDE semantics, which made it painful to evolve the harness for the CLI and to extend into things like flexible agent profiles and agent teams.

So we took every hard lesson from the past year and started fresh. We built an SDK with better performance and token efficiency, then rebuilt the CLI and extension on top of it. The SDK has a plugin architecture for providers, models, LSP servers, code search, themes, all of it. The goal is for Cline to be custom-fitted to how you work.

What we need from you

We're at the last mile and want folks in the beta with us. There will be breaking changes and missing features, and we'd like your help to close the gaps.

To help kick things off:

• $20 in credits to get started
• A bounty program rewarding contributors who help us fix bugs and ship plugins

Drop into the cline discord's #beta channel to get set up, share feedback, and build alongside us.

Hey everyone! Saoud here with another Kanban update!

Use different models per task

You can now pick a different agent or change the model/provider for Cline tasks when creating from the board. Run Claude Code on one card, Codex on another, Cline with Kimi on a third, all in parallel on the same project.

Remote server support with mobile layout

New project picker, easily clone repos by URL, connect securely with HTTPS and passcode auth. This means you can run Kanban on a remote machine or Docker container and connect to it from any browser on your network or on your phone!

More here: https://docs.cline.bot/kanban/remote-access

More customizability

Choose from 10 new color themes and edit task titles to more easily manage your board.

Incremental diff expand

Collapsed context blocks in the diff viewer now let you click to show 20 more lines at a time instead of expanding everything at once.

Kiro CLI agent support

Kanban now supports Kiro alongside Cline, Claude Code, Codex, and Droid. Thanks to the Kiro team for their PR to help get this working 💪

Also in this release:

• For Cline account users, you can now switch between orgs and view your credit balance in settings.
• There's a new settings menu along with UI improvements to the Kanban agent chat to more easily see the task commands your agents are running.
• We also shipped improvements to Codex task handling, overall performance, and a bunch of bug fixes across onboarding, chat state, navigation, and diff view.

npm i -g cline

or

cline --update

See demos: https://x.com/cline/status/2048814649513275448

Report Issues: https://github.com/cline/kanban/issues

Discord: Feedback welcome in #kanban on the Cline Discord

Hi Roo Code community, I'm Saoud, founder of Cline.

Since Cline went open source, we've seen countless forks - small startups to some of the largest enterprises. Some forks didn't give us credit, some bought malicious ads in our subreddit, but Roo was a good fork. They innovated, built an incredible community, and contributed to Cline more than anyone else. I have tremendous respect for Matt and his team, and we are excited for what they build next.

For Roo users joining us, we are here to make the transition easy!

• Join r/cline or the #roo-migration channel in our discord - our team is standing by to provide support.
• Feature parity work is already underway. We're in the middle of a ground-up rewrite of the extension that brings all the features you're used to in Roo, plus new capabilities and improved performance. We will share more on this shortly!
• If you run into any issues during the transition or have feature requests, feel free to open a GitHub issue and we'll be on top of it.

Huge thanks to Matt and the Roo team for the trust in sending folks our way 🙌❤️