Cline

Works with the CLI alone. No gander.md account.

Cline is an open source AI coding agent that lives in your editor and terminal. It can read and write files, run commands, and use a browser, with your approval on each step.

Cline loads skills from ~/.cline/skills and .cline/skills, and it also reads .claude/skills. Enable skills in Settings → Features → Enable Skills if the toggle exists. gander skill already links ~/.claude/skills/gander; add a Cline dest symlink so Cline's own scanner sees it.

1. Install the CLI

curl -fsSL https://release.gander.md/install.sh | bash
gander --version

After Homebrew or a source build, run gander skill.

mkdir -p ~/.cline/skills
ln -sfn ~/.gander/skill ~/.cline/skills/gander
ls -l ~/.claude/skills/gander/SKILL.md

Restart Cline (or reload the VS Code window). Type /gander or ask Cline which skills it can use.

3. Sign up and add MCP

gander signup --email [email protected]

Cline MCP lives in its MCP settings JSON (VS Code globalStorage cline_mcp_settings.json, or the in-app MCP panel). Add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gander": {
      "command": "gander",
      "args": ["mcp"],
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

Use the full path to gander if the GUI process does not inherit your shell PATH.

4. Use it

  1. Ask Cline for a plan as markdown, then gander this file.
  2. gander watch plan.md after signup.
  3. Send the hosted URL. Reviewers stay in the browser.
  4. @agent comments are MCP tools. Cline edits the local file and replies.

Fallback: gander comments.

5. Verify

gander list
gander comments
ls ~/.cline/skills/gander

More: Skill, MCP, Hosted watch.