~/distillery setup → cline

Overview

Cline is a VSCode extension that brings autonomous coding agents to your editor. It supports native Anthropic API base URL configuration via the `cline.anthropicBaseUrl` setting, no adapter needed. Once set, Cline routes all Claude requests through The Distillery where they are deduplicated and distilled before reaching Anthropic.

Prerequisites

You have The Distillery installed and running locally on port 3080. See the main install guide if you have not done this yet. Cline 3.0 or newer is required.

Install Cline from the VSCode marketplace: search for 'Cline' by saoudrizwan, or install from the command line.

code --install-extension saoudrizwan.claude-dev

code --install-extension saoudrizwan.claude-dev

You can configure Cline's Anthropic base URL two ways: via VSCode settings JSON, or via the Cline provider UI.

Option A: edit settings.json directly. Open your user settings.json, then add the `cline.anthropicBaseUrl` key:

{
  "cline.anthropicBaseUrl": "http://localhost:3080"
}

~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\settings.json