cline

Cline

Agent ID: cline

Cline is a provider-agnostic coding agent (30+ providers, BYOK or cline.bot subscription). Speaks ACP natively via cline --acp.

Install

npm install -g cline
cline auth

Run cline auth to authenticate via cline.bot OAuth, or configure a provider key via cline config for bring-your-own-key usage.

The cline package must be installed as a peer - it is not bundled with agents-wire.

Quick Start

import { agents } from "@pivanov/agents-wire";

const result = await agents.ask(
  "cline",
  "Review src/auth.ts for security issues",
  {
    permission: "auto-allow",
  },
);

console.log(result.text);

Model Selection

Cline is provider-agnostic. The model list depends entirely on which provider you have configured (30+ supported). There is no cline models CLI subcommand, so the static catalog shows a "Default" placeholder pre-init.

After creating a session, read session.configOptions to discover which models the running Cline instance exposes:

import { createSession } from "@pivanov/agents-wire";

const session = await createSession("cline");
const opts = session.configOptions ?? [];
const modelOpt = opts.find((o) => o.configId === "model" && o.type === "select");

if (modelOpt && modelOpt.type === "select") {
  console.log(modelOpt.options); // provider-specific model list
}

options.model and options.effort are sent via ACP setSessionConfigOption (best-effort). Whether Cline honors them depends on the configured provider.

Capabilities

Feature	Supported
ask / stream / session	✅
askJson	✅
MCP stdio	✅
MCP http/sse	❌
Session listing (listSessions)	❌
Tool call interception	✅

Cost Tracking

Cost reporting depends on the configured provider. Token-priced providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.) report per-turn costUsd. Subscription providers do not. Check result.cost and session.cost.snapshot to see what is available.