Specification · Instruction convention · Project instructions
Cline Rules
Cline's product convention for persistent workspace and global agent guidance.
- Status
- Vendor-specific
- Version
- Rolling / unversioned
- Steward
- Cline project · Cline Bot Inc.
- Licenses
- Apache License 2.0
- Standardizes
- Discovery and aggregation of Markdown or text rules under .clinerules/, workspace and global precedence, rule toggles, and optional path-conditional YAML front matter; Cline CLI documents .cline/rules/ separately.
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