Cline
Autonomous coding agent for your editor
An autonomous coding agent for developers, delivered as a VS Code-centric software tool that can plan changes, edit code, run terminal commands, and interact with a browser during tasks.
Recent stories
Moonshot open-sourced Kimi K2.7 Code and says it outperforms K2.6 by 21.8% on Kimi Code Bench v2 while using 30% fewer reasoning tokens. The release includes open weights and API access, so teams can test the 180 tok/s HighSpeed rollout and early Cline/OpenCode support.
Alibaba released Qwen 3.7 Plus as a multimodal agent model for GUI, CLI, coding, and browser tasks. It ships with browser demos and immediate Cline support, giving teams another frontier-style agent model to compare against M3 and closed-source tools.
Cline open-sourced the runtime behind its extension and CLI as the Cline SDK, then rebuilt the CLI on top with agent teams, cron jobs, connectors, and example apps. The harness score gives teams a new reference point if they want to compare agent tooling on Terminal-Bench 2.0.
A day after Kimi K2.6’s launch, providers and tools opened new access paths including temporary free use in Hermes and Cline plus availability on Replicate, Together, Perplexity, and Tinker. Engineers can test the open model across agent harnesses and hosted runtimes without standing up their own stack first.