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Cline is a popular open source AI coding agent with nearly 2 million installs that is installable through any IDE including VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf. This quick guide takes you through how you can combine Cline with powerful open source models on Together AI like Kimi K3 to supercharge your development process. With Cline’s agent, you can ask it to build features, fix bugs, or start new projects for you – and it’s fully transparent in terms of the cost and tokens used as you use it. Here’s how you can start using it with Kimi K3 on Together AI:

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Step 1: Install Cline

Navigate to https://cline.bot/ to install Cline in your preferred IDE.

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Step 2: Select Cline

After it’s installed, select Cline from the menu of your IDE to configure it.

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Step 3: Configure Together AI & Kimi K3

Select “Use your own API key”. After this, select Together as the API Provider, paste in your Together API key, and enter the model you want to use. moonshotai/Kimi-K3 is a good default, a powerful model built for agentic coding workflows.
That’s it! You can now build faster with one of the most popular coding agents running a fast, secure, and private open source model hosted on Together AI.