{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "cline", "name": "Cline", "vendor": "Cline Bot Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://cline.bot", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Open-source coding agent that runs as a VS Code extension, a JetBrains plugin, a CLI and a desktop app, all on one TypeScript SDK since extension 4.0.0 (26 June 2026).", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cline", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cline.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cline.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cline.json", "repo": "https://github.com/cline/cline", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "cline" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Your own provider keys (kept in ~/.cline/data/settings/providers.json for the CLI), a local model, or a Cline account (Google, GitHub or email sign-in) for the Cline provider and ClinePass. The CLI's default provider is Cline's own, so it needs `-P` and a key, or `cline auth`, to use anything else.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The extension, CLI and SDK are free and Apache-2.0. You pay your model provider, or buy Cline credits for pay-as-you-go access to 100+ models through the Cline provider, or ClinePass at $9.99 a month for higher limits on selected open models. Free models rotate for signed-in users. Enterprise (SSO, role-based access, audit logs, SLA) is priced by sales. We found no public per-token price list for Cline credits.", "priceSummary": "$9.99 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the pricing page or the source (checked 2026-10-01).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 67600, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-01" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.cline.bot", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.cline.bot/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "freemium", "typescript", "llms-txt", "telemetry-default-on", "enterprise", "no-card" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.4, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 581, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1210, "categoryRank": 17, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 50, "reliability": 80, "schema": 77, "security": 57, "transparency": 61 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -8, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-02-17. GHSA-9ppg-jx86-fqw7. An attacker used a compromised npm publish token to release cline@2.3.0 with a postinstall script that ran `npm install -g openclaw@latest`. It was live for about eight hours before 2.4.0 and a deprecation, the token was revoked and publishing moved to OIDC. A supply-chain incident that reached users, fixed and documented and seven months old, -4. https://github.com/cline/cline/security/advisories/GHSA-9ppg-jx86-fqw7", "2026-05-08. GHSA-5c57-rqjx-35g2 (CVE-2026-44211, 9.6). The kanban server the CLI uses accepted WebSocket connections on 127.0.0.1:3484 without checking Origin, so any website could read workspace data and inject commands. Affects kanban before 2.13.0. Inside six months, -2. https://github.com/cline/cline/security/advisories/GHSA-5c57-rqjx-35g2", "2026-06-23. GHSA-3cj3-hqcr-g934 (CVE-2026-59723, 8.8). The Cline Hub dashboard's `/browser` WebSocket accepted cross-origin connections when ROOM_SECRET was unset, the local default, letting a website add MCP servers to the settings file and run commands. NVD lists versions before 3.0.30 as affected. Inside six months, -2. https://github.com/cline/cline/security/advisories/GHSA-3cj3-hqcr-g934" ], "verdict": "Approval before edits and commands in the IDE, with command auto-approval off by default since 4.0.0. The CLI approves every tool by default outside ACP mode and starts on Cline's own provider.", "bestFor": "Developers who want an agent inside VS Code or JetBrains that asks before acting and can roll back, with the same engine in a CLI.", "strengths": [ "Approval before edits and commands in the IDE, with command auto-approval off by default since 4.0.0", "Checkpoints that restore files and task state, and sessions that resume by ID", "`CLINE_COMMAND_PERMISSIONS` allow and deny globs for shell commands, with deny taking precedence and redirects blocked", "Your own key for about 200 providers, or a local model, with no Cline account", "29 extension and 34 CLI releases since 3 July 2026, with tests passing on main" ], "weaknesses": [ "The CLI approves every tool by default outside ACP mode and starts on Cline's own provider", "Extension telemetry on by default, and the CLI's telemetry undocumented", "A compromised npm token shipped cline@2.3.0 with an unwanted global install in February 2026", "Two cross-origin WebSocket flaws in its local servers in May and June 2026", "About 700 open issues and 525 open pull requests" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `CLINE_COMMAND_PERMISSIONS` with allow and deny globs before a headless run. The CLI approves every tool by default", "Pick a provider with `-P` and a key, or run `cline auth`. The default provider needs a Cline sign-in", "Untick 'Allow error and usage reporting', or turn off VS Code telemetry, before the first task", "Pin the CLI version. 2.3.0 was a malicious publish", "Keep the hub on 127.0.0.1 or set ROOM_SECRET, and run 3.0.30 or later" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 50, "reliability": 80, "schema": 77, "security": 57, "transparency": 60 }, "provenanceScore": 61, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-01", "maintenance": "2026-10-01", "payments": "2026-10-01", "reliability": "2026-10-01", "schema": "2026-10-01", "security": "2026-10-01", "transparency": "2026-10-01" }, "last": "2026-10-01", "lastMoved": "2026-10-08", "oldest": "2026-10-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm i -g cline # Node 22+; or the VS Code extension saoudrizwan.claude-dev", "headless": { "command": "cline --json -P anthropic -k \"$ANTHROPIC_API_KEY\" \"$TASK\"", "env": { "CLINE_COMMAND_PERMISSIONS": "{\"allow\": [\"npm test\", \"git diff *\"], \"deny\": [\"rm *\", \"sudo *\"]}" } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cline" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "ClinePass", "unit": "month", "usd": 9.99, "note": "higher limits on selected open coding models" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Cline Bot Inc.", "domain": "cline.bot", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://cline.bot/tos", "privacy": "https://cline.bot/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/cline/cline/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "The pricing page and the CLI's package.json name Cline Bot Inc.", "cline.bot/.well-known/security.txt lists security@cline.bot and the Bugcrowd programme, and expires on 2027-12-31.", "The privacy and terms pages render only with JavaScript, so we couldn't read them." ], "score": 61 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cline.json", "live": { "slug": "cline", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "cline/cline", "version": "desktop-v0.0.48", "released": "2026-10-17", "seenAt": "2026-10-25T08:41:59.156755731Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "cline", "version": "3.0.73", "seenAt": "2026-10-25T08:41:58.292244513Z" } ], "githubStars": 70839, "npmWeekly": 47831, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://cline.bot/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-12-31T23:59:00z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T15:28:16.017515163Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.cline.bot/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T14:51:29.35543229Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "cline.bot", "registered": "2024-09-30", "source": "https://rdap.nominet.uk/bot/domain/cline.bot", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T13:59:55.179529358Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cline/cline/main/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T02:54:51.051171328Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-16T22:30:37.717253978Z", "fingerprint": "5e5d7447c5e8" }, { "url": "https://cline.bot/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T02:41:27.572279736Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-22T01:11:46.030569101Z", "fingerprint": "211bf6993b3a" }, { "url": "https://cline.bot/tos", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T02:41:29.751424797Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-22T01:11:48.265489304Z", "fingerprint": "28949d560a1d" } ], "github": { "repo": "cline/cline", "checkedAt": "2026-10-19T06:01:25.279072237Z", "stars": 70533, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-19T05:34:50Z", "openIssues": 937, "openPRs": 762, "issuesOpened90d": 739, "issuesClosed90d": 444, "prsMerged90d": 978, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 50, "success": 43, "failure": 3, "other": 4, "latest": "success", "latestAt": "2026-10-19T05:44:39Z" }, "advisories": [ { "ghsa": "GHSA-3cj3-hqcr-g934", "cve": "CVE-2026-59723", "severity": "high", "published": "2026-06-23T18:59:04Z" }, { "ghsa": "GHSA-5c57-rqjx-35g2", "cve": "CVE-2026-44211", "severity": "critical", "published": "2026-05-08T16:20:54Z" }, { "ghsa": "GHSA-9ppg-jx86-fqw7", "severity": "low", "published": "2026-02-17T22:18:19Z" } ], "replies": { "sampled": 25, "unanswered": 23, "medianDays": 3.7 } }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-25T15:28:16.017515163Z" } }, "answer": "Vibe-Trading scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Cline's 60.4 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Cline leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "vibe-trading", "name": "Vibe-Trading", "vendor": "HKUDS", "vendorUrl": "https://vibetrading.wiki", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Vibe-Trading is an open-source, self-hosted finance research agent from HKUDS. It turns plain-English questions into market data pulls, strategy code and backtests, through a CLI, a web UI, chat apps or its MCP server.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vibe-trading.json", "repo": "https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "stdio", "streamable-http", "sse" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "vibe-trading-ai" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account with the project. The owner supplies a model provider key in `agent/.env`, or uses Ollama, a ChatGPT OAuth sign-in for OpenAI Codex, a GitHub Copilot login or a local Claude Code login. The API server answers loopback clients without a key; any other client needs `API_AUTH_KEY` as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`. The MCP server's HTTP transport binds 127.0.0.1 with a Host and Origin allow-list and no token. Broker connector credentials are stored in the OS keyring by `vibe-trading connector setup` (https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading/blob/main/README.md).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free under the MIT licence, with nothing to buy from the project. The owner pays the model provider, or nothing with a local model through Ollama. 29 market-data sources are built in and most need no key. QVeris, an optional paid data marketplace, is a third party and is reached only in paid mode; the README carries a QVeris referral link and discloses it (checked 2026-10-25).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the README, the docs or the source at v0.1.18 (checked 2026-10-25).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 82, "popularity": { "githubStars": 36500, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-25" }, "docsUrl": "https://vibetrading.wiki/docs/", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.multi-agent", "agent.mcp-client", "data.markets", "market.crypto", "market.news", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.proactive" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "python", "mit", "mcp", "cli", "harness", "docker", "no-card", "no-sandbox", "pre-1.0", "beta" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-21", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.2, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 502, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1210, "categoryRank": 12, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 60, "reliability": 63, "schema": 72, "security": 70, "transparency": 47 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-25" }, "negative": -4, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-02. GHSA-v2f8-6655-7grj (CVE-2026-114108, critical). In 0.1.0 to 0.1.6 the API server answered every client without authentication when `API_AUTH_KEY` was unset, the shipped default, with the Docker container running as root on 0.0.0.0:8899, which the advisory chains to remote code execution. Fixed in 0.1.7 of 6 May 2026 and published five months later, -2. https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading/security/advisories/GHSA-v2f8-6655-7grj", "2026-10-02. GHSA-jqmf-mx4f-hfr6 (CVE-2026-114107, critical). Shell and code injection in the LLM-callable `bash`, `background_run` and backtest tools, and SSRF in `read_url`, reachable through the unauthenticated API or prompt injection in a processed document, in 0.1.0 to 0.1.6. Fixed in the same 0.1.7 release, -1. https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading/security/advisories/GHSA-jqmf-mx4f-hfr6", "2026-10-02. GHSA-5rmq-chc7-m22f (CVE-2026-114106, high). `read_document` read any file the process could reach and `safe_user_path()` accepted the whole home directory, in 0.1.0 to 0.1.6. Fixed in 0.1.7, -1. https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading/security/advisories/GHSA-5rmq-chc7-m22f" ], "verdict": "Vibe-Trading runs on the owner's machine under the MIT licence, ships near-daily fixes with a dated changelog, and keeps order tools out of its MCP server, with live orders gated by an owner-committed mandate and a kill switch. Three advisories, two critical, covered versions before 0.1.7, and the local CLI runs shell commands without asking.", "bestFor": "A person or a pipeline that wants a ready-made finance research agent over free market data, with backtests, swarm reviews and exports, run on their own machine or used as an MCP server by another agent.", "strengths": [ "MIT licence, runs on the owner's machine, and no telemetry code was found in the source at v0.1.18", "No order-placing or order-cancelling tool is exposed over MCP, and shell tools are off on every MCP transport by default", "Live orders need an owner-committed mandate with hard caps, a kill switch and an append-only, hash-chained audit ledger", "Six PyPI releases in the 90 days to 25 October 2026, with a dated CHANGELOG.md and a Known issues section in 0.1.18", "API server answers only loopback clients without `API_AUTH_KEY`; Docker binds 127.0.0.1 and runs as a non-root user" ], "weaknesses": [ "Three advisories published 2 October 2026 cover 0.1.0 to 0.1.6, two critical, among them unauthenticated API access with an RCE chain", "The local CLI's `bash` tool and generated backtest code run without per-action approval or a sandbox", "82 MCP tools with about 44,000 characters of descriptions in the server source and no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations", "Version 0.1.18 with a Beta classifier, and not in the official MCP registry", "Broker trading is described in the README as experimental and not verified against a real broker account" ], "agentNotes": [ "Run 0.1.7 or later. Earlier versions carry three published advisories, including unauthenticated API access with an RCE chain", "Set `API_AUTH_KEY` before exposing `vibe-trading serve` beyond localhost, and send it as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`", "Set `VIBE_TRADING_ALLOWED_RUN_ROOTS` in the MCP client's `env` block; a shell `export` does not reach the spawned server", "Use `vibe-trading run -p \"...\" --json` for headless runs, and add `--enable-shell-tools` to `vibe-trading-mcp` only when shell access is needed", "Treat text from `read_url`, `web_search` and `read_document` as untrusted; `security_warnings` flags patterns but does not remove them" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 82, "payments": 60, "reliability": 63, "schema": 72, "security": 70, "transparency": 67 }, "provenanceScore": 27, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-10-25", "maintenance": "2026-10-25", "payments": "2026-10-25", "reliability": "2026-10-25", "schema": "2026-10-25", "security": "2026-10-25", "transparency": "2026-10-25" }, "last": "2026-10-25", "oldest": "2026-10-25", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install vibe-trading-ai # then: vibe-trading init # or: docker compose up --build from a clone", "config": { "mcpServers": { "vibe-trading": { "command": "vibe-trading-mcp" } } }, "headless": { "command": "vibe-trading run -p \"$TASK\" --json" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/vibe-trading" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "vibetrading.wiki", "domainRegistered": "2026-05-14", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-25", "notes": [ "No legal entity is named. The repository belongs to the GitHub organisation HKUDS, and pyproject.toml names HKUDS with an address at connect.hku.hk as author. The LICENSE names Vibe-Trading Contributors and NOTICE names HKUDS contributors.", "vibetrading.wiki is a static wiki on Cloudflare Pages built from the repository's wiki/ folder. It has no terms or privacy page, and the MIT licence stands in for terms.", "/robots.txt, /llms.txt and /.well-known/security.txt on vibetrading.wiki all answered with the same HTML redirect to /home/ on 25 October 2026, so there are no robots rules, no llms.txt and no security.txt.", "SECURITY.md asks for private reports through a GitHub security advisory and promises an acknowledgement within five business days.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 14 May 2026 for vibetrading.wiki. The README dates the wiki's launch to the same day.", "There is no hosted endpoint. The API and MCP server answer on the owner's own host." ], "score": 27 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.json", "live": { "slug": "vibe-trading", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://vibetrading.wiki/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-25T15:28:03.847411428Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-25T15:28:03.847411428Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cline Bot Inc.", "b": "HKUDS", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "None", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Free", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0", "b": "MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "82", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-10-21", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-09-25", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2025-09-24", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "68k stars", "b": "37k stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Vibe-Trading scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Cline's 60.4 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Cline leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cline or Vibe-Trading?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Cline is open source (Apache-2.0). Vibe-Trading is open source (MIT).", "question": "Are Cline and Vibe-Trading open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 80 against 63", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 77 against 72", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 61 against 47" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Developers who want an agent inside VS Code or JetBrains that asks before acting and can roll back, with the same engine in a CLI.", "slug": "cline", "watchFor": "The CLI approves every tool by default outside ACP mode and starts on Cline's own provider" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 57", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 50" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Runs on your own machine" ], "goodFor": "A person or a pipeline that wants a ready-made finance research agent over free market data, with backtests, swarm reviews and exports, run on their own machine or used as an MCP server by another agent.", "slug": "vibe-trading", "watchFor": "Three advisories published 2 October 2026 cover 0.1.0 to 0.1.6, two critical, among them unauthenticated API access with an RCE chain" } ], "job": { "capability": "agent.harness", "name": "Agent harnesses" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-cline.json", "title": "Agent Zero vs Cline", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-cline" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Agent Zero vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-cline.json", "title": "Aider vs Cline", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-cline" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Aider vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-cline.json", "title": "Amp vs Cline", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-cline" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Amp vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-cline.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs Cline", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-cline" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-cline.json", "title": "Auggie CLI vs Cline", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-cline" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Auggie CLI vs Vibe-Trading", "url": 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goose", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-goose" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-harness2.json", "title": "Cline vs Harness²", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-harness2" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Cline vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-jules.json", "title": "Cline vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-junie.json", "title": "Cline vs Junie CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-junie" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-kilo-code-cli.json", "title": "Cline vs Kilo Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-kilo-code-cli" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-muse-code.json", "title": "Cline vs Muse Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-muse-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-openai-codex.json", "title": "Cline vs OpenAI Codex", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-openai-codex" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-opencode.json", "title": "Cline vs OpenCode", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-opencode" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-openhands.json", "title": "Cline vs OpenHands", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-openhands" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Cline vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-qoder-cli.json", "title": "Cline vs Qoder CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-qoder-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "Cline vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "Cline vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-reflection-mirror" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-rovo-dev-cli.json", "title": "Cline vs Rovo Dev CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-rovo-dev-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-warp.json", "title": "Cline vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-warp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Crush vs Vibe-Trading", "url": 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Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Jules vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/junie-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Junie CLI vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/junie-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Kilo Code CLI vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-code-cli-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Kimi Code CLI vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-code-cli-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Kiro CLI vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "mini-swe-agent vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "MiniMax Code vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-vibe-cli-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Mistral Vibe CLI vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-vibe-cli-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-code-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Muse Code vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-code-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-codex-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "OpenAI Codex vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-codex-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "OpenCode vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "OpenHands vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Prime Agent vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/prime-agent-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qoder-cli-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Qoder CLI vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qoder-cli-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen-code-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Qwen Code vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen-code-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-mirror-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Mirror CLI vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/reflection-mirror-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rovo-dev-cli-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Rovo Dev CLI vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rovo-dev-cli-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/vibe-trading-vs-warp.json", "title": "Vibe-Trading vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/vibe-trading-vs-warp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-cline.json", "title": "CLI Manager vs Cline", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-cline" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "CLI Manager vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-harness-autonomous.json", "title": "Cline vs Harness", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-harness-autonomous" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Cline vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Cline vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Harness vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Paperclip vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-vibe-trading" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-vibe-trading.json", "title": "Parallax vs Vibe-Trading", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/parallax-agents-vs-vibe-trading" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 17, "cline": 80, "edge": "cline", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "vibe-trading": 63, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 5, "cline": 77, "edge": "cline", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "vibe-trading": 72, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 0, "cline": 67, "edge": "", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "vibe-trading": 67, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 13, "cline": 57, "edge": "vibe-trading", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "vibe-trading": 70, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 10, "cline": 50, "edge": "vibe-trading", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "vibe-trading": 60, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 3, "cline": 85, "edge": "cline", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "vibe-trading": 82, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 14, "cline": 61, "edge": "cline", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "vibe-trading": 47, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Vibe-Trading scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Cline's 60.4 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Cline leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do agent harnesses.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "cline": "Approval before edits and commands in the IDE, with command auto-approval off by default since 4.0.0. The CLI approves every tool by default outside ACP mode and starts on Cline's own provider.", "vibe-trading": "Vibe-Trading runs on the owner's machine under the MIT licence, ships near-daily fixes with a dated changelog, and keeps order tools out of its MCP server, with live orders gated by an owner-committed mandate and a kill switch. Three advisories, two critical, covered versions before 0.1.7, and the local CLI runs shell commands without asking." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-vibe-trading", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-vibe-trading.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-vibe-trading.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-vibe-trading.min.md" }, "markdown": "Vibe-Trading scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Cline's 60.4 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Cline leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- Cline: grade C, 60.4/100, rank #581 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cline.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cline.json\n- Vibe-Trading: grade B, 62.2/100, rank #502 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vibe-trading.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 792 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Cline (C)\n\nGood for: Developers who want an agent inside VS Code or JetBrains that asks before acting and can roll back, with the same engine in a CLI.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 80 against 63\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 77 against 72\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 61 against 47\n\nWatch for: The CLI approves every tool by default outside ACP mode and starts on Cline's own provider\n\n### Vibe-Trading (B)\n\nGood for: A person or a pipeline that wants a ready-made finance research agent over free market data, with backtests, swarm reviews and exports, run on their own machine or used as an MCP server by another agent.\n\nAhead on:\n- Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 57\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: Three advisories published 2 October 2026 cover 0.1.0 to 0.1.6, two critical, among them unauthenticated API access with an RCE chain\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cline | Vibe-Trading | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 63 | Cline +17 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 72 | Cline +5 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 67 | even |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 57 | 70 | Vibe-Trading +13 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 60 | Vibe-Trading +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 82 | Cline +3 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 47 | Cline +14 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -8 | -4 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.4 · C** | **62.2 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cline | Vibe-Trading |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Cline Bot Inc. | HKUDS |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | None |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 82 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-21 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-09-25 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-24 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | |\n| Popularity | 68k stars | 37k stars |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cline.** Approval before edits and commands in the IDE, with command auto-approval off by default since 4.0.0. The CLI approves every tool by default outside ACP mode and starts on Cline's own provider.\n\n**Vibe-Trading.** Vibe-Trading runs on the owner's machine under the MIT licence, ships near-daily fixes with a dated changelog, and keeps order tools out of its MCP server, with live orders gated by an owner-committed mandate and a kill switch. Three advisories, two critical, covered versions before 0.1.7, and the local CLI runs shell commands without asking.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Cline\n\n1. Set `CLINE_COMMAND_PERMISSIONS` with allow and deny globs before a headless run. The CLI approves every tool by default\n2. Pick a provider with `-P` and a key, or run `cline auth`. The default provider needs a Cline sign-in\n3. Untick 'Allow error and usage reporting', or turn off VS Code telemetry, before the first task\n4. Pin the CLI version. 2.3.0 was a malicious publish\n5. Keep the hub on 127.0.0.1 or set ROOM_SECRET, and run 3.0.30 or later\n\n### Vibe-Trading\n\n1. Run 0.1.7 or later. Earlier versions carry three published advisories, including unauthenticated API access with an RCE chain\n2. Set `API_AUTH_KEY` before exposing `vibe-trading serve` beyond localhost, and send it as `Authorization: Bearer \u003ckey\u003e`\n3. Set `VIBE_TRADING_ALLOWED_RUN_ROOTS` in the MCP client's `env` block; a shell `export` does not reach the spawned server\n4. Use `vibe-trading run -p \"...\" --json` for headless runs, and add `--enable-shell-tools` to `vibe-trading-mcp` only when shell access is needed\n5. Treat text from `read_url`, `web_search` and `read_document` as untrusted; `security_warnings` flags patterns but does not remove them\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cline or Vibe-Trading?\n\nVibe-Trading scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Cline's 60.4 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Cline leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Are Cline and Vibe-Trading open source?\n\nYes. Cline is open source (Apache-2.0). Vibe-Trading is open source (MIT).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-vibe-trading.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-vibe-trading.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cline\", \"b\": \"vibe-trading\"}`. 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