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The blogger reminds users that the Cline extension on VSCode can use free models, especially the newly released Qwen 3.7 Max which offers 20M free tokens daily with 1M context length.

Cline released an open-source agent runtime SDK, rebuilding its core agent loop as a portable TypeScript stack that powers all Cline surfaces and allows teams to build their own agents. The SDK improves session durability, cross-surface portability, and achieves higher benchmark scores than competing tools.

Cline, an agentic coding harness, is reported to outperform Claude Code with Opus 4.6 and 4.7 according to its benchmarks.

The Cline SDK has been rebuilt from scratch and open-sourced, allowing others to build with it.