Cline's hub loads agent plugins from your home directory and deliberately refuses to load them from the repository you just opened.

Cline SDK v0.0.83 published at 05:53 UTC. Packages under ~/.agents/plugins/* are discovered and validated from their root plugin.json; valid skills are exposed through the skills tool as plugin-name:skill-name, and stdio, Streamable HTTP and legacy SSE servers declared in mcp.json start without anything being written to cline_mcp_settings.json. Workspace .agents/plugins directories are not scanned, so opening a repository cannot start MCP servers that the repository controls; extra roots require an explicit agentPluginPaths.¹ The CLI carrying the same change, v3.0.62, published at 06:04 UTC — four minutes after this window closed, so we are reporting it from the SDK release.²

Three fixes in the same release are about time rather than trust. A model turn that dies mid-stream on a transient provider error is now retried up to three times with exponential backoff; a single forwarded 429 previously ended the run. A turn that has already streamed text, reasoning, media or a tool call is never retried, so nothing duplicates. Streaming had been throttled because the hub proxied every runtime event to client onEvent hooks as a round trip carrying a full session snapshot, with the agent loop awaiting it. And checkpoints re-hashed every untracked file before each model call, which on multi-gigabyte workspaces blocked messages for seconds to minutes.¹