Cline standalone agent workspace

by Nate: Visual Studio Code

Cline is stepping out of VS Code and getting its own dedicated workspace for agents, which is a pretty big deal for something that already has 11 million people using it as an extension. The new release ships with a native UI that plays nice with frontier models, open weights, and stuff running locally. You can run parallel agents and schedule tasks, and there's a marketplace to pull in tools and connectors. Model and provider choice is yours too: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, open weights, local, whatever. And you can swap between them mid-project if you want. Already started something in another coding agent? Import it and keep going. The prompt field handles plain requests, mentioning files, referencing PRs, or running /commands. Desktop app link is in the thread.