Cline Open-Sources Its Runtime as a Model-Agnostic Agent SDK
Cline released its core agent runtime as @cline/sdk on npm—installable with npm i @cline/sdk. The SDK supports plugins, scheduled agent execution, persistent sessions across runs, and any model or provider. By open-sourcing the runtime, Cline repositions itself from "AI IDE extension" to "agent infrastructure"—a move that makes the underlying scheduler and session primitives available to any developer building autonomous agents, independent of Cline's editor tooling.
Why It Matters
A model-agnostic, open-source agent runtime with scheduled execution and persistent sessions addresses the most common missing primitive in production agent development. Making this available as an npm package significantly lowers the barrier to building non-editor-bound autonomous agents.