#cline
32 items tagged #cline.
GUIDE 2026-05-11
Cline auto-approve: what to enable and what not to
Cline's per-category auto-approve settings can eliminate constant confirmation clicks, but each category has a different blast radius. Here's how to set boundaries that speed things up without creating cleanup work.
GUIDE 2026-05-11
Cline's Computer Use: closing the loop on UI changes
Cline's Computer Use feature lets the agent drive a real browser to verify its own UI edits. Here's what it does well, what it breaks on, and when the round-trip cost isn't worth it.
GUIDE 2026-05-11
Cline checkpoints: the undo button that's better than git reset
Cline auto-creates checkpoints between major steps of a task. Roll back to any of them without unwinding your git history or restarting from scratch.
GUIDE 2026-05-11
Cline task history: replaying past tasks without doing them by hand
Cline stores every completed task on disk. Here is how to re-open past tasks, replay them against new branches, use them as model-version smoke tests, and what to purge before that history becomes a liability.
CASE STUDY 2026-05-10
One sprint with Cline on a FastAPI microservice: tokens, time, and what shipped
I used Cline as the primary coding interface for a 2-week sprint on a Python FastAPI service. Here are the actual numbers — tasks completed, hours spent, API spend, and what I'd do differently.
GUIDE 2026-05-04
Running local models in Cline with Ollama: when it's worth the trouble
Cline supports Ollama as a model provider, which means a fully offline coding agent on your laptop. The setup is straightforward. The quality gap is large. Here's how to think about both.
GUIDE 2026-04-22
Setting up Cline with Claude, GPT-4o, and OpenRouter as fallback providers
Cline lets you wire up multiple model providers and route between them. Here's the config that survived a month of real use, including the OpenRouter fallback that saved a deadline.
NEWS 2026-04-16
Cline ships first-class MCP server support: agents that can talk to your tools
Cline now supports the Model Context Protocol natively. Configure an MCP server, and Cline can call it as a tool — connecting the agent to your databases, APIs, and internal services.
GUIDE 2026-03-31
Setting cost budgets for Cline: monthly limits, alerts, and what to do when you hit them
Cline can burn through API credits faster than expected. Anthropic's spend limits, Cline's per-task budget, and OpenRouter's usage caps each fail in different ways. Here's the configuration that actually contains spend.
CASE STUDY 2026-03-30
Using Cline + MCP to debug a data pipeline: connecting the agent to real systems
I wired Cline to our staging Postgres and Snowflake via MCP servers, then asked it to help debug a data quality issue. The investigation that followed showed where MCP shines and where it doesn't.
GUIDE 2026-03-29
Cline for Terraform and infrastructure-as-code: high leverage with one big caveat
Terraform is repetitive, well-documented, and pattern-heavy — exactly the kind of work AI tools handle well. The caveat is that the cost of a wrong terraform apply is unusual.
CASE STUDY 2026-01-06
Cline on a marketing site redesign: when AI excels at content-heavy sites
Rebuilt a marketing site over a weekend with Cline. Content-heavy work plus design system fits AI tools well.
