cline/cline
Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.
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Most-wanted open issues
Ranked by 👍 reactions. 718 open issues total, checked 2026-09-04.
| Issue | 👍 | Comments | Opened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | 61 | 1 yr | |
Cline JetBrains plugin is unable to work with two or more open IDEA projects (Windows). JetBrains, Bot Responded | 12 | 19 | 11 mo |
| 12 | 46 | 1 yr | |
Add API Key field to LM Studio provider for authenticated servers Help Wanted, size:S, stale, Good First Issue, VS Code | 10 | 7 | 6 mo |
| 9 | 13 | 4 mo |
What Hacker News made of it
Threads that link to or name this project, ranked by points. The comments are where the objections live — the README never argues back.
- Using AI for Coding: My Journey with Cline and LLMs
198 points · 91 comments · 1 yr
- I Use Cline for AI Engineering
100 points · 30 comments · 1 yr
- Cline and LM Studio: the local coding stack with Qwen3 Coder 30B
80 points · 20 comments · 1 yr
- Cline founder stole my code
22 points · 1 comments · 1 yr
- Cline is quietly eating Cursor's lunch and changing how we code
20 points · 5 comments · 1 yr
Head to head with its peers
The same six axes and the same star history, two projects at a time.
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