For some time, Cline offered two ways to provide persistent guidance: a simple "Custom Instructions" text box and the more robust, file-based .clinerules system. While the text box was a familiar starting point, it was always a stepping stone. Today, we're fully embracing the more powerful
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Hello Cline community 🫡 v3.17.14 is focused on expanding provider support, refining the terminal experience, and shipping a handful of important stability improvements. New Provider Integrations We're committed to making Cline as flexible as possible, and that means letting you plug in the tools you already use.
It feels like every month there's a new "must-have" AI coding tool. The FOMO is real; but so is the fatigue of constantly switching, learning new workflows, and migrating settings. It’s exhausting, but that's the price for developers who want to be armed
We really appreciate all our contributors who have submitted code, ideas, and other improvement to Cline. For me it's honestly been one of the coolest parts of being involved with this project. The creativity, expertise, and dedication I've see from our community has always blown me
Remember when AI coding meant tab autocomplete? The human did 95% of the work: navigating the codebase, finding the right files, locating the exact spot to edit, beginning to type, and only then could AI offer a helpful suggestion. The human was the driver, AI was barely a passenger. Today&
When developers first encounter Cline, they often describe it as their "AGI moment" – that pivotal instant when they realize AI has crossed from helpful suggestion tool to genuine coding partner. But what exactly separates a true coding agent from the growing crowd of AI-powered development tools? The answer
Yesterday, Windsurf users lost access to Claude 3.x models with five days' notice. OpenAI's acquisition of Windsurf created competitive tensions with Anthropic, and developers got caught in the crossfire. Picture this: you're deep into a critical project, and suddenly your AI coding assistant is
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Hello Cline community 🫡 We've been burning the candle at both ends to make Cline work as well as possible with the new Claude 4 family of models, and we're excited to share that Cline 3.17.9 includes experimental Claude 4 support that addresses reliability issues,
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Here's a common question we get from prospective Cline users: "How does Cline handle large codebases? Do you use RAG to index everything?" It's a reasonable question. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the go-to solution for giving AI systems access to large knowledge