cline
Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.
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cline (TypeScript) — Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.
You use VS Code and want a fully autonomous coding agent that can plan and execute multi-file changes.
DevOps & Deploy · AI & ML
Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code. Reads your codebase, plans edits, executes shell commands, recovers from errors. Fastest-growing AI coding agent on GitHub in 2026 (formerly Claude Dev). Free, open-source, bring-your-own-API-key.
You use VS Code and want a fully autonomous coding agent that can plan and execute multi-file changes.
You want lightweight inline completions — GitHub Copilot is more focused.
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