New in Cline Desktop v0.0.49 🧵 1) Install and manage local models through Ollama or LM Studio. Cline checks your hardware and recommends the best local models available. Try via Settings → Provider → Local

Kimi K3.1 Pro nearly matches Opus 5.5 performance on Terminal-Bench 4.0 at *half* the cost. Moonshot also removed cyber data from mid-training and RL to deliberately reduce performance on exploit tasks by ~10%, while everything else, including coding, kept improving.

There’s new free models available in Cline: - Reflection Beam (501B) - Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B) - Poolside Laguna S 2.1 (118B) - Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (32B) - Solar Mini 4 (35B) 6 months ago these Terminal-Bench scores were frontier, open weights makes this more accessible.

We’re about to see a breakout in local model capabilities. Flint scores 54.9% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with ~2B active parameters. That’s ahead of every other small MoE and two of the three dense ~30B models. It only needs about 24GB and runs at 125+ tok/s on a MacBook Pro.

Use the Goal plugin in Cline Desktop to keep Cline working until the task is verified complete. Customize > Marketplace > Plugins > Install 'Goal' > use /goal Plugins are TypeScript files that extend Cline's capabilities with: - Slash commands - Custom tools - Lifecycle hooks (beforeTool, afterRun, etc.) - Dynamic rules The Goal plugin adds a /goal slash command and an afterRun hook that nudges Cline to verify its work, and only when verified complete can it call the plugin's custom mark_goal_complete tool to finish the task.