About Cline
What this tool does and where it fits best.
Autonomous coding agent in your IDE, capable of creating/editing files, running commands, and using the browser with user permission.
Prompts for Cline
Challenges using Cline
Key capabilities
What Cline is actually good at.
Read
View file contents.
Grep / Glob
Search code and find files by pattern.
Edit
Modify existing files (diff-based edit).
Bash
Execute shell commands.
WebSearch
Search the web.
WebFetch
Fetch a URL and return its contents.
Access
Fetch and interact with URLs/content inside an isolated container with allowlisting/permissions.
TodoRead / TodoWrite
Task management primitives (read/write todos).
Task
Delegate sub-tasks to isolated sub-assistants.
Tool details
Core technical and commercial details.
Various
Feature highlights
Details that help this tool stand apart in the directory.
Read
View file contents.
Grep / Glob
Search code and find files by pattern.
Edit
Modify existing files (diff-based edit).
Bash
Execute shell commands.
WebSearch
Search the web.
WebFetch
Fetch a URL and return its contents.
Access
Fetch and interact with URLs/content inside an isolated container with allowlisting/permissions.
TodoRead / TodoWrite
Task management primitives (read/write todos).
Task
Delegate sub-tasks to isolated sub-assistants.