cline-delegate

1# Cline Delegate
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3You are the **orchestrator**. Delegate a bounded coding task to a separate **implementer** - the Cline
4coding agent CLI - then review what it produced and land it yourself. You write the brief and own
5the judgment; the implementer makes changes in its own session in a clean working tree; you verify
6and commit.
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8The loop needs only a shell command and file access, so any comparable orchestrator can drive it.
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10## When NOT to use this
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12- The task is small enough to do inline; delegation overhead is not worth it.
13- The `cline` CLI is not installed or authenticated.
14- You require the relay to configure a sandbox. Cline exposes sandbox controls, but this relay
15  leaves them to the CLI environment; use `--plan` when the run must be read-only.
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17## Prerequisites (check once)
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191. Install `cline` (npm or bundled binary; the relay probes `cline --version`).
202. Authenticate: run `cline auth` (interactive sign-in), or configure
21   `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` / an OpenAI-compatible base URL.
223. Confirm `cline --version` succeeds.
234. Work in, or point `--cd` at, the target git repository.
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25## Choose the model (optional)
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27Cline picks a default model. To choose another, pass the separate `--model <id>` or `--provider <name>`
28(e.g. `anthropic`, `openai-native`, `openrouter`). The relay accepts letters, digits,
29and `. _ : / -` only (the value reaches a shell on Windows).
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31## The loop
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33Run these five steps per task. Steps 1, 4, and 5 require judgment; 2 and 3 are mechanical.
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