Cline Leaves the IDE: a Standalone Desktop Agent That Imports Claude Code and Codex Sessions and Schedules Recurring PR Reviews

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Cline shipped a standalone macOS and Windows desktop beta on Sept 14, moving the open-source agent out of the VS Code extension slot into its own surface; the GitHub releases page shows Desktop v0.0.26 on Sept 11, v0.0.27 on Sept 13 and v0.0.28 on Sept 15, so it is shipping daily. It imports in-progress tasks from Claude Code and OpenAI Codex and lets you continue them on a different model, schedules recurring jobs like PR reviews, security scans and doc updates, and bundles a marketplace for plugins, MCP servers and reusable skills. The business angle is ClinePass at $9.99/month sitting in the provider picker next to bring-your-own-key, which is a recurring-revenue path that does not require locking the user in.