Cline (@cline) says it has finished migrating all ~11 million users of the Cline VS Code extension onto a new SDK harness built for open-weights models. Task mistake rates dropped from 6.34% to 0.62%; the team calls it their biggest update ever, shipped entirely under the hood.

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  • ✓All ~11 million Cline extension users are now on the new SDK harness.
  • ✓The harness targets open-weights models; task mistake rates fell from 6.34% to 0.62%.
  • ✓Cline calls it the biggest update ever, shipped entirely under the hood.
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