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There's a new terminal coding agent. Apache 2.0 open source. You can read the code, modify it, self-host it. No black box.

It has a flag that turns it into a backend for Zed, Neovim, Emacs, and JetBrains via the Agent Client Protocol. One agent, any editor.

And right now it ships with free access to Minimax M2.5 and Kimi K2.50 (1T parameter model) and a multi-agent native model. No API key. No setup. Just works.

Cline CLI 2.0 (https://cline.bot/)

Website: https://cline.bot/
Installation: https://docs.cline.bot/cline-cli/installation
Overview CLI: https://docs.cline.bot/cline-cli/overview
Command: npm install -g @cline/cli

What it does:
Open source coding agent that runs in your terminal with the same Plan/Act loop as the IDE extension. Rich TUI, headless mode for CI, multi-provider support, ACP integration for editors.

What it replaces:
- Switching between IDE and terminal. Run agents where you already live.
- Claude Code or Gemini CLI lock-in. Use any model: Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Bedrock, Vertex, Ollama, LM Studio.
- Writing CI scripts for code review. Pipe diffs in, get reviews out.

Cost:
Apache 2.0 licensed. Free forever. Your API costs depend on which model you pick.

Use it if:
You live in the terminal, want model freedom, need agents in CI, or use multiple editors and want one agent to rule them all.

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INSTALL

npm install -g @cline/cli

Then:

cline auth

Pick your provider. Select Kimi K2.5 or MiniMax M2.5 if you want the free models. Done.

What it gives

Cline CLI 2.0 is the real thing. Same core agent as the VS Code extension. Same capabilities as Claude Code CLI and Gemini CLI. Plan/Act modes, MCP support, slash commands, auto-approve, multi-agent parallelism, headless CI mode. All there.

Plan/Act: Press Tab to toggle. Plan mode reasons and gathers info with read-only tools. Act mode executes with file edits, terminal commands, and browser use.

MCP support out of the box: Web search, GitHub, AWS Lambda, UI generation, Blender, Perplexity research. Or type "add a tool that..." and it creates custom MCP tools on the fly.

Slash commands: /history to resume tasks, /settings to swap models mid-session. Drop a markdown file in .cline/workflows/ and it becomes a command. Create pr-review.md and suddenly you have /pr-review.

Everything else: Auto-approve/YOLO mode, parallel agents with isolated state, headless JSON output for CI. Same agent loop across OpenAI-compatible providers, Anthropic, Ollama, and the free Kimi/MiniMax models.

Complete drop-in for Claude Code workflows. But open source, no vendor lock-in, and terminal-native orchestration.

PARALLEL AGENTS IN TMUX

You can run multiple Cline instances simultaneously, each with isolated state.

Three tmux panes:
- Pane 1: Cline refactoring your auth layer on a feature branch
- Pane 2: Cline updating API docs
- Pane 3: Cline generating migration scripts

Each has its own model config, its own task history, its own workspace awareness. No state collisions.

This is how you actually use agents. Not one at a time like a chatbot. In parallel, like a team.

THE ACP ANGLE

Run Cline with --acp and it becomes an ACP server. That means Zed, Neovim, Emacs, and JetBrains can all use it as their agent backend.

No separate extension per editor. One agent, multiple frontends.

If you hop between editors or work with a team that uses different tools, this matters. Your agent config travels with you.

GETTING STARTED

npm install -g @cline/cli
cline auth

Pick Kimi K2.5 or MiniMax M2.5 for free access.

Try headless:

git diff | cline -y "Review this"

Try the TUI:

cline

Press Tab to switch Plan/Act. Type /help for commands.

Docs: https://docs.cline.ai
GitHub: https://github.com/cline/cline

Until next week,
@speedy_devv

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