Cline

Cline is an autonomous AI coding agent that runs in VS Code. Shipables installs skills and configures MCP servers for Cline.

Detection

The CLI detects Cline by checking for:

• .cline/ directory in the current project or home folder

File locations

Project-level (default)

Global (--global)

Install example

shipables install Chippers255/ai-commits --cline
shipables install Chippers255/ai-commits --cline --global

MCP configuration

After installing, your .cline/mcp_settings.json will include:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "postgres": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-postgres"],
      "env": {
        "POSTGRES_CONNECTION_STRING": "postgresql://..."
      }
    }
  }
}

The key used is mcpServers.

Verifying installation

ls .agents/skills/<name>/
cat .cline/mcp_settings.json
shipables doctor