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Cline SDK 0.0.66: free models, agentic compaction default, onRetryAttempt removed

The Cline SDK adds free Cline models (cline-free) priced at zero with a dedicated limit error carrying a reset time, and makes agentic compaction the default context-compaction strategy with three fixes to it. The never-invoked onRetryAttempt callback is removed from ApiHandlerOptions and provider config, which will break consumers that set it.

PUBLISHED2026-07-28
OBSERVED2026-08-11
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Features

  • Free Cline models (cline-free): labeled "(free)", priced at zero; hitting the free tier raises a dedicated limit error including the reset time.
  • Agentic compaction is now the default context-compaction strategy.
  • Connector sessions persist and auto-reconnect after a daemon or hub restart.
  • Plan/act mode, tool auto-approve and compaction mode persist in global settings with cross-process-safe writes, so two hosts no longer clobber each other.
  • Built-in provider list generated from models.dev, broadening out-of-the-box coverage; bundled model catalog updated.
  • Headless scheduled routines default to auto-approve and no longer ask unanswerable questions.
  • Telemetry: task lifecycle events, auth event metadata and request IDs, correct host identity (host_plugin_version, platform) on SDK-pipeline events.

Fixes

  • Agentic compaction silently falling back to basic compaction on OpenAI Compatible providers (summarizer built its handler without a base URL and hit api.openai.com).
  • Manual compaction budgeting against a 64k fallback instead of the model's real context window.
  • Agentic compaction never finding a cut point in tool-heavy transcripts, producing endless "auto-compaction skipped" while context grew — assistant messages are now valid cut boundaries.
  • Editor tool preserves a file's existing line endings; CRLF files no longer get mixed endings and failing exact-match edits.
  • SAP AI Core sets the metering header and uses the fetch adapter.

Removed

  • onRetryAttempt callback removed from ApiHandlerOptions and provider config (documented as never invoked).
  • @cline/ui: host-safe theme contract and Markdown exports.

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