What people previously said about Cline

“This might be the most developer-friendly AI coding app released this year. Cline just went desktop.”

“I've been using Cline inside VS Code for a while. Now there's an open-source desktop app for open-weight models, and I've spent a bit of time on the beta. Same agent harness as the extension.”

“Been testing Cline Desktop lately (thanks to the Cline team for the access). Cline Desktop is an open-source app for open-weight models, and it’s been fun to explore.”

“It's an MCP server, so it works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Aider, Cline and a few others from the same store.”

“Unreal Engine 6.0 UEFN + Cline Code Chat Agent in Visual Studio code, backed by llama.cpp running Qwen3.8 on my 4090 is finally all working.”

“what is the exact limits of Cline pass?”

“Cline has bad reputation with their context handling and chewing up tokens.”

“Works with any harness - Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, Codex, Cline. Everything runs on your machine.”

“Reads real Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code, OpenCode, Cursor and Cline sessions. Execution DAG, collapsible sub-agent branches, span waterfall, token flame graph, file heatmap, timeline, live-tail.”

“If you're specifically trying to use your LLM to help you with coding and you want a VS Code extension, then the Cline family of harnesses might be worth considering. This includes: - Cline - Kilo Code - Roo Code (now Zoo Code).”

“Free AI coding agent — still deciding between things like Copilot/Freebuff/Roo/Cline/etc.”

“Point a coding agent like Cline or Roo Code at your local project directory and connect it to OpenRouter with a Qwen model. Edits land in place with diffs you accept or reject, and the agent maintains file context across turns without re-uploading.”

“Cline Kanban already sits above Claude Code and Codex, and OpenAI's Symphony dispatches agents straight from Linear. The handoff is not.”

“Yeah I'm using it with my own customer harness via cline and VS code right now and it is far better than the integrations they've had before. Albeit I'm using it on a coding repo so YMMV.”

“What About limits? And cline still has cline pass?”

“No one cares we use deepseek v4 via openrouter with cline”

“i will if possible bcz the Cline i'm running in Termux is somehow a patched setup by an AI agent, and it's working. i know the basic logic but not fully bcz it was done by AI, so i want to make a Termux version of the Cline package so anyone can just run one command and it sets itself up in Termux.”

“Cline vs code extension also offers free models like Nvidia but their slow”

“I’m afraid of Cline’s auto compact hosing cache hits so I don’t use it, but I’m also not giving it a single task that would take 12 hours and/or 60m tokens.”

“\- It runs inside your actual project workspace. It reads files, navigates the folder tree, edits code across multiple files, creates diffs for your review, and can even run tests in the terminal. No need to zip/unzip anything.”

“Connect any MCP-compatible client — Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Zed, and more — and let your AI agent query HyperStore directly.”

“I use cline mainly since they give great models for free. Would love a t3 code with cline but yeah”

“It’s an open coding agent that lives in your editor and actually does the work: reads your repo, edits files, runs commands, ships the task.”

“Just make sure your cline system instruction is tweaked for what you expect the output to be like e.g coding style preferences for language used the setup of your device your using cline on etc.”

“I’m using Cline running in vs code pointed at Qwen3-Coder-Next running via Lemonade. What things do I need to add to help qwen3 coder do the best job possible.”

“(if you paste one failing Cline prompt's token count (or roughly how big the context is when it hits 2 tok/s.............) It's usually instant, the prefill bogs and then it's over. I'll carry on with it, try some more debugging, and report back.”

“it’s not on clinepass, you can just pay for it with credits”

“The Cline team bundled both their old/new extensions into a single release, then used a PostHog feature flag to safely toggle between them.”

“I tried cline but its too hands on with the act/plan thing.”

“I suggest you **first take an idea and develop it enough to make a solid methodological base** ( you can use AI to soundboard here! just make sure you aren't in some delusional loop!), and then use your AI ( via Cursor,Cline,Copilot etc ( I personally use Copilot + ZooCode for debugging, which is RooCode's newer community version.)) to make that base and tweak until you think it fits your project and what you basically have qualitatively in your head.”

“Yeah I would suggest trying a different harness for example pi.dev. check clines system prompt it could be using a lot of context. Also others documented that Q4 is kinda the lowest you can go.”

“I got it working with VS Code + Cline, but right after prompting, it keeps reading the same 2 files over and over again. I'm using 64k context window and medium reasoning setting, Q5 XL model.”

“Get OpenCode for example- or Cline or Roo extension- they usually have some free models- which can be used.”

“Which AI coding tool do you open first?”

“Cline was the second most popular coding agent at a friend's company (after Claude Code).”

“Fits 24gb vram and works well with cline as a coding agent. I rarely have to use frontier models now, qwen can do the mundane work for hours.”

“That's basically the Cursor setup without the subscription.”

“Cline pass ($5 even tho it says $10) or command code go”

“Not true of other AIs, I burn through my work tokens quite easily if I am not careful, and I tried Cline first... can burn through the $10 clinepass limits in 2 weeks.”

“The only weirdness here is the amount of overhead work the client (in your case a laptop) has to do to continuously render the streaming response from cline. you can play with these settings too but that bottleneck will actually slow the harness down even though most of what is happening is on the LLM/code server”

“AIHubMix gives you free access + an API key you can use with Cline in VS Code”

“Cline pass lo sto provando e per 5€ ne vale la pena, a 10€ vince opencode. Ti consiglio Opencode, appena scade Cline tornerò. Prova anche Commandcode Goat, anche lì non è male”

“Which one is better opencode go or cline pass both are $10.”

“And for the API question: paying API prices will be always more expensive than paying a subscription for the model provider directly. You will get a lot more usage per dollar paying 200 dollars for Claude Max (or you can choose a cheaper tier, like the Pro 20 dollars a month) then API.”

“I use Cline in VScode with a free model that claims to have a 1.3M token context window and free input/output. But why am I hitting a daily limit after using only 178k? (i forgot to take screenshot for 2nd image).”

“Stack: LM Studio and then Cline plugin for VS Code. You can change LM Studio to llama.cpp, and cline for roo code. Good luck.”

“so many options but what multi-model AI platform is good to use? OpenCode Cline Kilo Code Cursor Copilot Command Code RooCode”

“Cline showed thinking when I used it before, maybe it's a setup issue? I don't think I did anything particularly special with the setup either.”

“Next I tried Cline, which is almost perfect. It looks nice, shows code difs, shows the task list and all the visual gubbins, but it won't let me expand the "thinking" block to see what the model is doing, and with Qwen it can be "thinking" for a loooong time!”

“- They don't get the best performance compared to Coding agents like Cline/ Claude code on most coding agent benchmarks”