Cline in VS Code: Plan + Act for Real Engineering
Cline is an open-source (Apache-2.0) autonomous coding agent that runs inside VS Code. It edits files, runs commands, and asks for approval at every meaningful step. The latest stable VS Code extension is v4.0.8 (2026-07-11); the parallel CLI build is at v3.0.40 (2026-07-13). Compared to Claude Code and OpenCode (which are terminal-first), Cline lives where... » read more