Cline — AI Glossary

Cline is an open-source autonomous coding agent that runs as a Visual Studio Code extension; the project was originally released as Claude Dev before adopting its current name. Cline supports a plan-and-act workflow, file-system and terminal tool use, Model Context Protocol (MCP) server integration, and multiple model providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, and local models served by Ollama.