ai-hats-cline 0.3.0

Cline surface plugin for the ai-hats framework — registers the `cline` CLI as an ai-hats provider via the `ai_hats.providers` entry point.

ai-hats-cline

A Cline surface plugin for the ai-hats framework. It registers the cline CLI as a first-class ai-hats provider through the ai_hats.providers entry point, so ai-hats discovers it with zero edits to src/ai_hats/** (the T10 IoC seam, HATS-870).

Install it alongside ai-hats and cline appears next to the built-ins:

$ ai-hats list providers
  claude  →  CLAUDE.md
  gemini  →  GEMINI.md
  cline   →  CLINE.md

(The → CLINE.md column is nominal — cline takes the role inline via -s, so no CLINE.md file is ever written; it is just this provider's system-prompt path label.)

Then compose any role onto cline:

$ ai-hats -p cline -r <role>          # HITL: launches an interactive cline TUI

What it owns

• ClineProvider — the ai_hats.providers.Provider adapter for cline:
  • the composed role reaches cline inline via -s "<role>" (no static CLINE.md — update_system_prompt is a no-op);
  • HITL launches the interactive TUI (cline -i); the automate path runs headless (cline --yolo --json "<prompt>");
  • --worktree is never passed (ai-hats-wt owns isolation), and CLINE_DATA_DIR is left ambient so cline keeps the machine's auth;
  • the role's skills are materialized into .cline/skills/ (cline's native discovery path) so /skills shows them and /skill-name loads bodies (HATS-963). User-authored skills in .cline/skills/ are preserved.

Requirements

• cline v3.x on PATH, authenticated (cline auth).
• ai-hats (this plugin depends on the integrator for the Provider ABC, per ADR-0014).

Not yet here

• ClineParser — a structured .messages.json → audit + usage adapter (follow-up); until it lands the provider rides ai-hats-observe's default trace parser.
• --hooks-dir runtime-hook wiring, cline teams/spawn, and PyPI publish.