How did Cline SDK do on X?
Cline posted the Cline SDK launch from @cline on May 13, 2026. The post has 3,585,789 views, 635 likes, 168 reposts, 5,114 quotes and 174 replies, an engagement rate of 0.17%. It ranks #223 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks.
Introducing the Cline SDK. We rebuilt the Cline harness for our extension and CLI from scratch using all the lessons learned since creating one of the world's first coding agents in 2024, and are open sourcing it for others to build with today. npm i @cline/sdk 🧵
- 20xthe median launch175K median views
- #223of the launches we trackout of 2839
- 44xits own following81,619 followers
- Views
- 3.6M
- Likes
- 635
- Reposts
- 168
- Quotes
- 5.1K
- Replies
- 174
- Bookmarks
- 382
What would these views cost to buy?
At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 3.6M views would cost $359K. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $90K.
The post reached about 44 views for every follower of @cline.
What launched?
Cline launched the Cline SDK, a rebuilt and open-sourced harness from its extension and CLI that others can build with.
How does it compare with other launches?
Cline SDK has more views than 92% of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks: 20x the median launch's 175K views.
- Cline SDK3.6M
- Median tracked launch175K
- #1: xAI Voice Cloning204M
| Metric | Cline SDK | Median launch |
|---|---|---|
| Views | 3.6M | 175K |
| Engagement rate | 0.17% | 0.48% |
| Views per follower | 44 | 2.8 |
| Quote posts | 5.1K | 27 |
| Saves per 10K views | 1.1 | 14.2 |
Other Cline launches we track: Cline Kanban (1.5M views), Cline Desktop (1M views), Cline CLI 2.0 (552.9K views), Qwen3-Coder in Cline (63.4K views) and Cline for Enterprise (58.6K views). All 6 Cline launches, or every developer tools launch.
Against launches like it
A launch only means something against comparable ones. These are the groups it belongs to, and where it sits in each.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer tools launches | 595 | 111.1K | 32x | #33 |
| Accounts 10K to 100K followers | 1,135 | 99.4K | 36x | #63 |
| Video launch posts | 1,940 | 192.5K | 19x | #167 |
| Every launch | 2,839 | 175K | 20x | #223 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 81.6K followers, the post reached 44 times the account's following. Launches from accounts 10K to 100K followers reach a median of 3.1 times their following, so this one went about 14 times further than usual for its size. It ranks 63 of 1135 launches from accounts that size.
It drew 5,114 quote posts, 14.3 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.7. More people than usual added their own take, and a quote post is what carries a launch to audiences the account does not have.
The first line is "Introducing the Cline SDK. We rebuilt the Cline harness for our extension and CLI from scratch using all the lessons learned since creati…". The post runs 47 words, against a median of 39 for launch posts here, and leads with a video: video launches have a median of 192.5K views, against 137.6K for the rest.
There is no link in the post. Launch posts without a link have a median of 184.9K views in the tracker.
It went out on a Wednesday (UTC). Wednesday launches have a median of 178.8K views; the strongest day is Tuesday at 192.3K.
Every comparison is against the 2839 launches in the tracker, read on Nov 14, 2026. Medians, not averages. See the state of launches on X for the full breakdown.
Questions about this launch
- What is Cline?
- In its own words on X: "The open source coding agent that takes over your editor, terminal, and browser to complete work autonomously. npm i -g cline" Cline posted the Cline SDK launch from @cline on May 13, 2026.
- How many views did Cline SDK get on X?
- 3,585,789 views. Cline posted it from @cline on May 13, 2026, and the post has 635 likes, 168 reposts, 5,114 quotes, 174 replies and 382 bookmarks. Gridd re-reads these numbers from the post every six hours; these were read on Nov 14, 2026.
- Was Cline SDK a big launch on X?
- It ranks #223 of the 2839 launches Gridd tracks, with more views than 92% of them and 20x the median launch's 175K views. Its engagement rate is 0.17%, against a median of 0.48%.
- What would 3.6M views on X cost to buy?
- At $100 per 1,000 views, the rate a brand pays an agency charging $100K for one million views, 3.6M views would cost $359K. At Gridd's rate of about $25 per 1,000 views, the same views would cost about $90K.
Source: Gridd launch tracker, gridd.agency/launches/cline-sdk, read from the post on X on Nov 14, 2026. Free to cite with a link (CC BY 4.0). Get every launch as JSON.