Best skills & rules for Cline
8 skills tracked·ranked quality-first·Updated July 2026
The short answer
The best Cline tooling is well-structured .clinerules and portable skills that give the agent concrete, followable guidance. Skill of Skills ranks 8 Cline-compatible tools quality-first rather than by stars.
Cline reads .clinerules and the cross-tool skill standard. This guide surfaces the Cline-compatible tools with the strongest quality signals, each with an assessed risk level so you can adopt them with confidence.
Top 8 ranked quality-first
| # | Skill | Tier | Quality | Risk | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | caveman 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman | Promising | 102 | medium | Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Cline |
| 2 | mcp-server-azure-devops An MCP server for Azure DevOps | Curated | 157 | high | Claude Code, Codex, Cline |
| 3 | antigravity-workspace-template Give Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI a ChatGPT for your codebase. Multi-agent knowledge engine, grounded Q&A with file paths and line numbers. Works in any AI IDE. | Curated | 124 | high | Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Cline |
| 4 | context-engineering-kit Hand-crafted plugin marketplace focused on improving agent results quality. Supports Claude Code, OpenCode, Cursor, Windsurf, and Cline. | Promising | 114 | low | Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline |
| 5 | agent-native A framework for building agent-native applications. | Promising | 117 | high | Claude Code, Codex, Cline |
| 6 | raycast/extensions Everything you need to extend Raycast. | Promising | 80 | low | Claude Code, Codex, Cline |
| 7 | atlas-mcp-server A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for ATLAS, a Neo4j-powered task management system for LLM Agents - implementing a three-tier architecture (Projects, Tasks, Knowledge) to manage complex workflows. Now with Deep Research. | Promising | 97 | high | Claude Code, Cline |
| 8 | unreal-mcp Enable AI assistant clients like Cursor, Windsurf and Claude Desktop to control Unreal Engine through natural language using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). | Experimental | 77 | medium | Cursor, Windsurf, Cline |
Frequently asked
addDo these tools work only in Cline?
They are filtered to Cline-compatible tools, but many are authored to the cross-tool skill standard and work in other agent clients too.