AI tool official ide-extension
Risk level
low
10/100

Cline ↗

Cline is an officially published AI tool from Saoud Rizwan. Anomity scores its risk at 10 out of 100 (low).

Analysis summary

Cline is an officially published AI tool from Saoud Rizwan. Anomity scores its risk at 10 out of 100 (low).

Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code with MCP support

Why this entry scored 10 out of 100

This profile starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50. Because the entry is officially published, trust adjusts the score by -40. The entry declares no high-risk capabilities on its own, so capabilities add nothing. It matches no dangerous capability combinations. The clamped result is 10, placing it in the low band.

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Findings

  • Published by the vendor Trust offset
    Contribution to score: -40

Configuration surface

Files this AI tool reads on the host. Anything written here changes what the agent does next.

  • cline-global-mcp global json
    Global MCP settings (any IDE host — Cline runs inside VS Code, Cursor, Kiro, Windsurf, …)
  • cline-project-rules project markdown
    Project rules (.clinerules/ directory — Markdown/text)
  • cline-project-rules-file project markdown
    Legacy single-file project rules (.clinerules)
    • win32${PROJECT}\.clinerules
    • darwin${PROJECT}/.clinerules
    • linux${PROJECT}/.clinerules
  • cline-user-rules global markdown
    Global Cline rules (~/Documents/Cline/Rules)
  • cline-project-skills project markdown-frontmatter
    Project skills (.cline/skills)
  • cline-project-skills-agents project markdown-frontmatter
    Project skills (cross-tool .agents/skills convention)
  • cline-user-skills global markdown-frontmatter
    User-scope Cline skills (~/.cline/skills)