Chapter 1: Prompt Fundamentals
Cline works best when your ask is specific. In this blog we review strategies to prompt Cline in an effective way.
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Core Skills for Building with AI
Learn the fundamentals of AI-powered coding to make the most out of your development workflow
Chapter 2: Cline Rules
Learn how System Prompt Rules guide coding style, security, and workflow ensuring consistency, safety, and alignment in every task.
Chapter 3: System Prompt Fundamentals
Learn how System Prompt bridges intent and action with three pillars: Tools, System Info, and User Preferences.
Chapter 4: System Prompt Advanced
Learn how System Prompt Advanced handles dev tasks: explore code, make diff edits, verify with commands, and test in the browser.
Chapter 1: LLM Fundamentals
Learn how to choose the right LLM in Cline by understanding trade-offs in speed, cost, reasoning, and multimodality.
Chapter 2: LLM Benchmarks
Learn how to interpret LLM benchmarks—coding, domain, and tool-use—to match scores with your development needs.
Chapter 3: Choosing LLM for Cline
Learn to pick the best LLM in Cline by balancing speed, context, cost, and flexibility—matching models to your specific tasks
Chapter 4: LLM Providers
Explore how Cline’s model-agnostic design lets you route tasks via providers, aggregators, or local models—optimizing cost, speed & privacy.
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Stop Adding Rules When You Need Workflows
Most developers clutter their context with rules when they should build workflows. Workflows inject instructions on-demand and consume tokens only when invoked, while clinerules append to every system prompt.
Cline + LM Studio: the local coding stack with Qwen3 Coder 30B
For the first time, local models are powerful enough to run Cline effectively on a laptop.
How to Think about Context Engineering in Cline
The Cline Context Playbook: when to use Deep Planning, Focus Chain, Auto Compact, /smol, /newtask, and Memory Bank
How to use Cline from Cursor or Windsurf
Whether it be an Anthropic API key or using the Cline provider for inference, you can expect to pay what the provider charges for their inference, and none more. Cline doesn't charge any platform fees.
How I Learned to Stop Course-Correcting and Start Using Message Checkpoints
Why hitting the reset button will actually save you time instead of fighting an upstream context current.