@tejasa97/pi-cline-provider

Pi provider for Cline's model gateway — the z-ai/* models your Cline account can access (including GLM 5.3 Flash) by default, with the full Cline catalog (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Qwen, DeepSeek, and more) available via CLINE_MODELS=all.

Cline's API exposes one catalog to everyone; entitlements decide what actually runs. This extension defaults to the models that work on a standard Cline account today — currently Cline's free-tier lineup, which Cline can change at any time — and gracefully surfaces a "requires ClinePass" message for models gated behind the $9.99/mo subscription.

Install

pi install npm:@tejasa97/pi-cline-provider

Or from git:

pi install git:github.com/tejasa97/pi-cline-provider

Local clone:

pi install /absolute/path/to/pi-cline-provider

After install, add your preferred model to enabledModels in ~/.pi/agent/settings.json if you use that whitelist:

"cline/z-ai/glm-5.3-flash"

Usage

1. Sign in with the Cline CLI: cline auth
2. In Pi: /login → Cline (optional if CLI auth is already present)
3. Pick a model: /model cline/z-ai/glm-5.3-flash

One-liner:

pi --model cline/z-ai/glm-5.3-flash

Model catalog

Default: only z-ai/* models are registered — the set that currently works without a subscription:

Model ID	Name
z-ai/glm-5.3-flash	GLM 5.3 Flash
z-ai/glm-5.2:free	GLM 5.2
z-ai/glm-4.7-flash	GLM 4.7 Flash

Full catalog: set CLINE_MODELS=all (env var or in ~/.pi/agent/settings.json under env) to register Cline's entire gateway catalog (~400 models: openai, anthropic, google, qwen, deepseek, minimax, …). Models your account isn't entitled to return a friendly ClinePass notice instead of a raw 403.

When authenticated, the catalog is refreshed dynamically from Cline's API; the table above is the offline fallback.

Auth

The provider reuses credentials from, in order:

• CLINE_API_KEY env var
• Cline CLI ~/.cline/data/settings/providers.json (from cline auth)
• Pi ~/.pi/agent/auth.json (cline / clinefree / clinepass entries)

If you already use pi-clinepass-provider, your existing Cline CLI login works here too — no separate /login needed.

Testing

npm test
npm run test:e2e   # requires pi + local install

Related

• Cline CLI — cline provider id matches this extension
• pi-clinepass-provider — paid ClinePass cline-pass/* catalog
• @tejasa97/pi-agentrouter-provider — AgentRouter GLM/GPT/Opus models
• @tejasa97/pi-nous-portal-provider — Nous Research Portal

History

Published as @tejasa97/pi-cline-free-provider (≤0.1.1) when it exposed only free models; renamed in 0.2.0 to reflect the full-gateway scope. Provider id changed clinefree → cline; stored clinefree credentials are still honored.