Announcements
5M installs, $1M Open Source Grant program, and the story of how we got here
We surpassed five million installations of Cline across VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, Windsurf, and other editors through OpenVSX.
Saoud Rizwan
Announcements
Introducing cline-bench: A Real-World, Open Source Benchmark for Agentic Coding
A call for contribution to establish reproducible, practical reinforcement learning environments sourced from real open source development work — with a $1M commitment to support open source maintainers.
Cline Raises $32M Building the Open-source AI Coding Agent that Enterprises Trust
Cline has raised $32M in combined Series A and Seed funding, led by Emergence Capital and Pace Capital, with participation from 1984 Ventures
Insights
How Cline Creates Compound Productivity for Engineering Teams
Picture this: Your senior engineers spending most of their time on high-level architecture instead of debugging nested loops. Your new hires becoming productive in days instead of months. Your entire team shipping more code with fewer bugs while actually leaving work feeling energized instead of burnt out. Sound like fantasy?
MCP
Introducing the MCP Marketplace: Cline's New App Store
Remember when installing new apps meant typing cryptic commands into a terminal, manually resolving dependencies, and praying nothing would break? That's kind of where we are with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers right now. But not anymore. Today, I'm excited to announce Cline's MCP
Insights
What AI Companies Actually Need Right Now
At Cline, we've scaled to 500k+ users and raised significant funding from top-tier VCs. As Head of AI, I recently interviewed a strong ML engineer candidate. Despite their solid background, I voted "no hire." Let me explain why - it reveals a broader pattern about what