cline

Facts

Openness

Open source

Licence

Apache-2.0

Language

TypeScript

Pinned version

f58bc11 (2026-09-30)

Topics checked

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Kind of agent

Coding

Source repository (opens another site)

What it does notably well

• Checkpoints and rewind

  Untracked files are captured as the third parent of a stash-shaped commit built from a private GIT_INDEX_FILE (persistent per session, config pinned so core.ignorestat cannot…

  A workspace restore runs inside a transaction: the current tree is saved under refs/cline/restore-transactions/<id> first, the new session is started, and only then is the ref…

• Compaction

  Compaction summary serialization limits each tool result content block to 2,000 characters.

• Safe repeats

  With CLI checkpoint restore and restoreWorkspace=true, Core trims the new session history before the selected user run and applies the nearest git checkpoint at or before runCount.

• MCP and auth

  Remote MCP OAuth advertises a public client with token_endpoint_auth_method none and authorization-code/refresh grants, and persists its code verifier in per-server settings.

• Proactive triggers

  Cline's hub scheduler lists 'retry' as a run trigger kind next to one_off, schedule, event and manual (the cron_runs table accepts it, and the store's enqueueHubScheduleRun can…