How Cline turns any developer Into a senior developer

Cline isn’t just another AI assistant. It’s your in-IDE senior developer that helps you write, debug, review and refactor code faster with fewer errors and higher quality.

Backed by 46.7K+ GitHub Stars and growing global adoption, Cline empowers individuals and tech teams to code like experts, deliver faster and build cleaner software.

Cline is open source built by developers for developers.

Code Understanding

• Traditional AI Tools: Offer surface level understanding of code, often missing deeper architectural context.

• Cline: Provides deep, context aware insights that are project based and aligned with your specific codebase.

Suggestion Quality

• Traditional AI Tools: Suggestions are generic and sometimes irrelevant.

• Cline: Generates smart, relevant and standards aligned suggestions based on your environment.

IDE Integration

• Traditional AI Tools: Limited IDE support or web based only.

• Cline: Fully integrated with popular IDEs 

• Visual Studio Code 

• IntelliJ 

• WebStorm.

Training Customization

• Traditional AI Tools: Minimal ability to adapt to your workflow or tech stack.

• Cline: Learn from your stack, coding history and documentation to offer tailored assistance.

Open Source

• Traditional AI Tools: Mostly paid, closed source platforms.

• Cline: Fully open source and licensed under MIT transparent, customizable and developer friendly.

Feature Development Time

• Without Cline: 8–12 hours
• With Cline AI: 3–5 hours

Bug Discovery

• Without Cline: Found during late-stage QA
• With Cline AI: Instant AI reviews and automated fixes

Release Velocity

• Without Cline: Features take 1–2 sprints to ship
• With Cline AI: Features ship within the same sprint

Junior Developer Ramp-Up

• Without Cline: Onboarding takes weeks
• With Cline AI: Ramp-up in 2–3 days with AI mentoring

Refactoring Complexity

• Without Cline: Manual and error-prone process
• With Cline AI: Smart auto-refactoring suggestions

Team Collaboration

• Without Cline: Bottlenecks in code review
• With Cline AI: Faster peer reviews with AI support

Cline runs natively within your favorite development environments

•  Visual Studio Code 
•  IntelliJ IDEA 
•  WebStorm 
•  PyCharm 
•  Rider (beta) 
•  Android Studio (coming soon) 

Cline gives you flexibility to choose your preferred backend

• OpenAI GPT-4 / GPT-3.5
• Anthropic Claude 3 and newer version
• Mistral (OpenWeight)
• Meta LLaMA 3
• Mixtral (experimental)
• Your own hosted models via API

🔗 46.7k+ GitHub Stars

⬇️ Install Cline 1.8M Installs

🧑‍💻 MIT Licensed  build on top of Cline

🧵 Ask Questions: https://github.com/cline/cline/discussions 

👥 Join our Dev Community: 

 https://discord.com/invite/cline 

 https://www.reddit.com/r/CLine/ 

For Visual Studio Code

1. Open VS Code
2. Go to Extensions (⇧⌘X / Ctrl+Shift+X)
3. Search “Cline AI - Developer Assistant”
4. Click Install and Authorize
5. Start coding smarter

Prompt You Enter: Write a function to sort an array of objects by age

• Output from Cline AI: A clean, optimized JS function with ES6 syntax

Prompt You Enter: Add error handling to this API call

• Output from Cline AI: Adds try-catch + fallback UI handling

Prompt You Enter: Refactor this code to remove nested if-els

• Output from Cline AI: Suggests guard clauses + ternaries for clarity

Prompt You Enter: Explain why this login fails occasionally

• Output from Cline AI: Pinpoints race condition with async state

Prompt You Enter: Write unit tests for UserService.createUser()

• Output from Cline AI: Generates Jest-based tests with valid/invalid scenarios

v1.0

• Key Updates: Core release – Prompt + Completion
• Status: ✅ Stable

v1.1

• Key Updates: Refactor engine + IDE extensions
• Status: ✅ Stable

v1.3

• Key Updates: Model switching (GPT-4, Claude, Mistral)
• Status: ✅ Stable

v2.0 (Beta)

• Key Updates: Self-hosted + offline inference + CLI
• Status: 🚧 In Beta

v2.1

• Key Updates: Coming soon – Agentic workflows, CI/CD hooks
• Status: 🚀 Planned

Q1. Is Cline completely free?

Yes! It’s open source under the MIT license. You only pay for your LLM API usage (e.g., OpenAI or Anthropic).

Q2. Can I use Cline with self hosted LLMs?

Yes. You can plug in your own model endpoints using the config.

Q3. Is Cline safe for enterprise codebases?

Absolutely. Cline runs locally in your IDE and never sends code externally unless configured.

Q4. How do I get help or request a feature?

Ask on our GitHub Discussions: https://github.com/cline/cline/discussions 

Q5. Is there a place to connect with other developers using Cline?

Yes! Join the Cline Discord  and reddit Community:

 https://discord.com/invite/cline 

 https://www.reddit.com/r/CLine/ 

With Cline, you’re not just writing better code - you’re redefining your team’s velocity, quality and impact.

🔗 GitHub Repo 🎓 Cline Docs 💬 Prompts 

Build faster. Ship better. Think less.

Welcome to the future of development. Welcome to Cline.

OneClick IT Consultancy is a certified Cline integrator and AI-first engineering partner.

• Integrate Cline across multi stack projects
• Develop custom prompt libraries for your domain
• Offer AI onboarding and dev enablement workshops
• Connect Cline to CI/CD, GitOps and workflow pipelines
• Build COE dashboards for measuring AI led dev efficiency

    AI Knowledge & Resources Need help with AI transformation? Partner with OneClick to unlock your AI potential. Get in touch today!