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Adds Cline Desktop, a native app for open-weight models

Cline launches Desktop, a native app for open-weight models featuring task import, scheduled runs, web search, voice input, and plugin marketplace.

Sep 15 · · primary fetch1 sourceupdated Sep 15 ·

Introducing Cline Desktop: a native app for working with open-weight models, with task import from Claude Code and Codex, scheduled runs, web search and voice input, and a marketplace for plugins, MCP servers, and skills. The CLI now shows a one-time startup notice pointing at cline.bot/desktop. At most one notice appears per launch, and `CLINE_DISABLE_CLINE_PASS_NOTICE=1` still suppresses all of them Agent Plugins are now managed through the Hub. Packages under `~/.agents/plugins/*` are discovered and validated, their skills are exposed through the skills tool as `plugin-name:skill-name`, and their MCP servers start without touching `cline_mcp_settings.json`.

The config screen lists them separately from Cline Plugins and Space toggles them. Workspace `.agents/plugins` directories are deliberately not scanned, so opening a repo cannot implicitly start repo-controlled MCP servers A model turn that dies mid-stream with a transient provider error is now retried up to 3 times with backoff instead of failing the run — a single forwarded 429 from OpenRouter previously ended the run with exit 1. A turn that already streamed output is never retried, so nothing is duplicated Streaming…

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  1. github.comCline: CLI v3.0.62primary