# Cline

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cline/  
**Website:** https://cline.bot/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

Cline (formerly Claude Dev) is an open-source autonomous coding agent. The Cline VS Code extension has 5M+ installs; JetBrains is in early access; the Cline CLI is also available. Edits files, runs commands, uses the browser, and federates to multiple LLM providers. An MCP Marketplace extends Cline with custom tools. There is also a hosted/managed offering (Cline.bot) with free and paid tiers plus enterprise sales.

## Kin Score — 14.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 14.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (5)

- **Cline VS Code Extension** — Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code. Reads/writes files, runs commands, browses the web, calls MCP tools, and connects to LLM providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, O...
- **Cline JetBrains Plugin** — Early-access JetBrains plugin offering the same agent surfaces.
- **Cline CLI** — Headless terminal version of the Cline agent.
- **Cline MCP Marketplace** — Marketplace for MCP servers/tools that extend the Cline agent.
- **Cline Hosted (Cline.bot)** — Hosted/managed Cline product with free and paid tiers plus enterprise sales.

## Security (2)

- **Cline Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Cline Vulnerability Disclosure** — Bugcrowd · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Cline Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Agents, VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, MCP, Open-Source

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cline/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.