# Cline

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

- **Canonical URL:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/agent/cline
- **Kind:** AI tool
- **Publisher:** Saoud Rizwan
- **Trust level:** official
- **Risk score:** 10/100 (low)
- **Website:** https://cline.bot
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-02
- **JSON:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/api/entries/agent/cline

## Description

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

## Why it scored 10

The score starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50 and moves only through the signals below. The formula is published at https://catalog.anomity.ai/about — there is no model and no hidden heuristic.

| Signal | Contribution | Severity | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Published by the vendor | -40 | trust offset |  |

Clamped result: **10/100**, band **low**.

## Configuration surface

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

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

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Source: Anomity Catalog (https://catalog.anomity.ai/). Scoring methodology: https://catalog.anomity.ai/about. Machine-readable index: https://catalog.anomity.ai/llms.txt · https://catalog.anomity.ai/openapi.json