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Cline vs CodeWhale

Cline leads on trust: 92.1/100 (Grade A) against 83.3/100 (Grade A), a 8.8-point gap. Cline leads on supply-chain integrity and adoption, and rests on broader evidence.

A Cline 92.1

Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.

cline/cline · #10 overall · #1 Coding Agents · coverage A (4/5)

Choose Cline if supply-chain integrity and adoption matter most.

+4.0Safety / Integrity: 93% of recent commits signed, against 22%
+3.9Adoption: 5.9M weekly downloads against 5.6k
A vs BEvidence coverage: 4 of 5 independent signal types, against 3

A CodeWhale 83.3

Open-source agent for the terminal written in Rust. Use any provider or model. Issues & PRs always welcome

Hmbown/CodeWhale · #114 overall · #8 Coding Agents · coverage B (3/5)

CodeWhale doesn't lead on any scored dimension in this pair.

Where they differ

20.0

Safety / IntegrityCline +4.0

16.0

13.9

TransparencyCline +0.4

13.5

19.9

MaintenanceCodeWhale +0.1

20.0

AdoptionCline +3.9

16.1

+0.3

Runtime calibrationCline +0.6

-0.3

1 dimension identical: Identity 18.0 · Full evidence table

An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Cline and CodeWhale, two Coding Agents projects in the HVTracker registry. Scores come from public, checkable signals — supply-chain provenance, OSSF Scorecard, maintenance, and adoption — not popularity.

Full evidence

Signal	Clinecline/cline	CodeWhaleHmbown/CodeWhale
HVTrust score	92.1	83.3
Evidence grade	A	A
Coverage grade	A	B
Overall rank	#10	#114
Rank in Coding Agents	#1	#8
GitHub stars	71.2k	41.2k
Last updated	1d ago	today
Build provenance	Yes	Yes
OSSF Scorecard	6.3 / 10	5.9 / 10
License	Apache-2.0	MIT
Downloads	5.9M/wk	6k/wk
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25	20.0	16.0
Identity & provenance / 18	18.0	18.0
Transparency / 17	13.9	13.5
Maintenance / 20	19.9	20.0
Adoption / 20	20.0	16.1
Runtime capability surface (full matrix)
MCP server	Declared	Declared
External providers	—	—
Requires API keys	Yes	No
Plugin surface	plugins	plugins
Provenance drift	Match	Unknown

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How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption, scaled by an evidence-confidence factor. Grade bands: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Signals refresh daily. Full methodology v4.4 →