cline-delegate

Cline Delegate

When to Use

• You want to delegate a bounded coding task to a separate cline implementer (Cline) and then review its diff yourself.
• The user explicitly asked for delegation to this implementer.

You are the orchestrator. Delegate a bounded coding task to a separate implementer - the Cline coding agent CLI - then review what it produced and land it yourself. You write the brief and own the judgment; the implementer makes changes in its own session in a clean working tree; you verify and commit.

The loop needs only a shell command and file access, so any comparable orchestrator can drive it.

When NOT to use this

• The task is small enough to do inline; delegation overhead is not worth it.
• The cline CLI is not installed or authenticated.
• You require the relay to configure a sandbox. Cline exposes sandbox controls, but this relay

leaves them to the CLI environment; use --plan when the run must be read-only.

Prerequisites (check once)

1. Install cline (npm or bundled binary; the relay probes cline --version).
2. Authenticate: run cline auth (interactive sign-in), or configure

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY / an OpenAI-compatible base URL.

3. Confirm cline --version succeeds.
4. Work in, or point --cd at, the target git repository.

Choose the model (optional)

Cline picks a default model. To choose another, pass the separ