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Run Cline in your terminal. Interactive chat for paired sessions, or fully headless for CI/CD and scripting. The CLI shares its agent core with the Cline VS Code extension, JetBrains plugin, and SDK, so plan/act modes, MCP servers, checkpoints, rules, skills, and provider configuration all behave the same across surfaces.
Platform binaries are published for macOS, Linux, and Windows on arm64 and x64. The cline package resolves the correct binary for your platform via optional dependencies, so no Node, Bun, or Zig runtime is required at install time.
See cline --help for the full flag reference.
Cline supports the same providers as the VS Code extension. You can sign in to Cline directly,…
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