Cline is an AI coding agent. It reads your project, edits files and runs shell commands to complete a task, either in an interactive terminal UI or headless for scripts and CI. It works with Cline accounts, ChatGPT subscriptions and API keys for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, OpenRouter, AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex, Groq and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, and supports MCP servers, plan/act modes and checkpoints.
Examples
cline auth
cd ~/my-project
cline
cline "Explain what this repository does"
cline --auto-approve false "Fix the failing tests"
git diff | cline "Review these changes"
Access
The agent works on projects in your home folder (except hidden folders directly under it). For /media and /mnt, run:
sudo snap connect cline:removable-media
Commands the agent runs stay inside the snap. They can use bash, the core utilities, git, ripgrep, curl, jq, patch, file, tree, zip, unzip and xz. Toolchains installed on your system, such as node, npm, python, go, cargo, make or docker, are not available to the agent.
Settings, credentials and sessions are stored in ~/snap/cline/common/cline. Updates come from the Snap Store.
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
On Debian 9 (Stretch) and newer, snap can be installed directly from the command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
After this, install the snapd snap in order to get the latest snapd:
sudo snap install snapd
To install Cline, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install cline
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
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