Cline - gaal

Cline is an open-source AI assistant for VS Code. Both project and global skills use the vendor-neutral .agents/skills and ~/.agents/skills conventions; MCP config lives in VS Code’s settings.json.

Paths

Resource	Path
Project skills	`.agents/skills` (generic fallback)
Global skills	`~/.agents/skills` (generic fallback)
MCP config	`~/.vscode/settings.json`
Audit search (project)	`.agents/skills`, `.github/skills`, `.claude/skills`
Audit search (global)	`~/.agents/skills`, `~/.copilot/skills`, `~/.claude/skills`

Skills example

gaal.yaml

skills:
  - source: anthropics/skills
    agents: [cline]
    global: false

Skills land in .agents/skills/, Cline picks them up via the generic convention.

MCP example

gaal.yaml

mcps:
  - name: filesystem
    agents: [cline]
    global: true
    inline:
      command: uvx
      args: [mcp-server-filesystem, ~/projects]

Configure skills

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