Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What changed on 13 May 2026 Cline — the open-source coding agent best known as a VS Code extension and CLI assistant — has released @cline/sdk, an open-source agent runtime that any team can import and embed in their own product. The package is not a thin wrapper or a marketing repackage of the IDE extension. It is the same runtime that powers every Cline surface: the IDE extension, the new CLI, and the new terminal UI. Whatever Cline runs in production, you now run too. Alongside the SDK, Cline shipped a rebuilt CLI on top of the same runtime, with three additions that change what a coding agent is allowed to be: agent teams (multi-agent collaboration in a single workspace), scheduled jobs (cron-style autonomous runs), and connectors (a typed integration surface for talking to external…
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