# Cline

> Cline is an open-source, autonomous AI coding agent that runs inside VS Code and other editors. It reads a codebase, plans changes, edits files across a project, runs terminal commands, and drives a browser - asking for the developer's approval at each step. Built to be transparent and model-agnostic, it lets teams bring their own API keys or run local models, and has grown into one of the most-installed AI coding tools with a Fortune 500 enterprise offering, Cline Teams.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Saoud Rizwan (Founder & CEO), Nik Pash (Head of AI)
- **Team size:** ~36 employees
- **Products:** Cline (open-source agent), Plan & Act modes, MCP servers & .clinerules, Cline Teams
- **Notable:** Fastest-growing AI open-source project in GitHub's 2025 Octoverse report, Installed by ~2.7 million developers (8M+ installs reported by 2026), 60k+ GitHub stars

## Products & services

- **Cline (open-source agent)** — An autonomous coding agent that runs as a VS Code/IDE extension, SDK, or CLI. It reads the codebase, plans and edits across multiple files, runs terminal commands, drives a browser via Puppeteer, and requests approval at each step. Apache 2.0 licensed.
- **Plan & Act modes** — A two-phase workflow: Plan mode aligns on strategy before any change is made; Act mode executes the approved plan.
- **MCP servers & .clinerules** — Extensibility through Model Context Protocol servers, plus customizable project rules and skills so teams can encode their own standards.
- **Cline Teams** — Enterprise platform layering organization management, centralized billing, and usage tracking on top of the open-source agent for large software teams.

## Achievements

- Fastest-growing AI open-source project in GitHub's 2025 Octoverse report
- Installed by ~2.7 million developers (8M+ installs reported by 2026)
- 60k+ GitHub stars
- Raised $32M in combined Seed and Series A funding in 2025
- Adopted by Fortune 500 enterprises including Samsung and SAP

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — Raised $32M in Seed and Series A funding led by Emergence Capital and Pace Capital, and launched Cline Teams for enterprises.
- **2026-01** — Reported 8M+ installs and 64k+ GitHub stars; expanded to SDK, IDE extension, and CLI form factors.

## Links

- Website: https://cline.bot
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clinebot
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/cline
- GitHub: https://github.com/cline/cline

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Last updated: 2026-07-13