Cline

Cline Bot Inc. · Editor extension, Terminal, Desktop app

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Cline, an open-source coding agent for developers, runs as an editor extension (VS Code, JetBrains and others), a terminal program and a desktop app. It connects to local MCP servers over stdio and to hosted ones over Streamable HTTP or legacy SSE. Servers are added in the MCP Servers panel of the extension, through a JSON settings file, or by running cline mcp add in a terminal.

Facts

Runs on
macOS, Windows, Linux source
Kind
Editor extension, Terminal, Desktop app source
Price
Free source
Source code
Published, Apache-2.0 source
Connects to
Local (stdio), Remote (HTTP), Remote (SSE) source
Publisher
Cline Bot Inc. source

How to add a server to Cline

  1. Find the server you want on plug.directory and open its page.
  2. In its install block, pick Cline. The block shows the config and where it goes.
  3. Put the config in cline_mcp_settings.json (MCP Servers › Configure › Configure MCP Servers). Then check the server's tools in Cline, as its docs describe.

For example, Azure MCP Server, one of the top ranked servers that work in Cline, goes in cline_mcp_settings.json (MCP Servers › Configure › Configure MCP Servers):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "azure": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@azure/[email protected]", "server", "start"]
    }
  }
}

Step by step for this server

How to add an MCP server to Cline: local and remote

Matches the official docs The config follows Cline's MCP docs, read on 2026-10-31.

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Facts read from Cline Bot Inc.'s own pages on 2026-10-31; the description is ours, from its site. Every client