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Cline vs OpenHands

Cline leads on trust: 91.7/100 (Grade A) against 75.0/100 (Grade B), a 16.7-point gap. Cline leads on supply-chain integrity and provenance.

A Cline 91.7

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

cline/cline · #12 overall · #1 Coding Agents · coverage A (4/5)

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

+9.0Safety / Integrity: OSSF Scorecard 6.3 against 4.3
+7.2Identity / Provenance: package provenance attested, against none
+1.7Transparency: OSSF Scorecard 6.3 against 4.3
+1.0Adoption: 5.6M weekly downloads against 205.2k

B OpenHands 75.0

🙌 OpenHands: AI-Driven Development

OpenHands/OpenHands · #250 overall · #11 Coding Agents · coverage A (5/5)

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

Where they differ

19.4

Safety / IntegrityCline +9.0

10.4

18.0

Identity / ProvenanceCline +7.2

10.8

13.9

TransparencyCline +1.7

12.2

20.0

AdoptionCline +1.0

19.0

+0.5

Runtime calibrationOpenHands +2.2

+2.7

1 dimension identical: Maintenance 19.9 · Full evidence table

An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Cline and OpenHands, 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	OpenHandsOpenHands/OpenHands
HVTrust score	91.7	75.0
Evidence grade	A	B
Coverage grade	A	A
Overall rank	#12	#250
Rank in Coding Agents	#1	#11
GitHub stars	70.5k	91.1k
Last updated	1d ago	1d ago
Build provenance	Yes	No
OSSF Scorecard	6.3 / 10	4.3 / 10
License	Apache-2.0	MIT
Downloads	5.6M/wk	205k/wk
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25	19.4	10.4
Identity & provenance / 18	18.0	10.8
Transparency / 17	13.9	12.2
Maintenance / 20	19.9	19.9
Adoption / 20	20.0	19.0
Runtime capability surface (full matrix)
MCP server	Declared	Declared
External providers	—	—
Requires API keys	Yes	Yes
Plugin surface	plugins	plugins
Provenance drift	Match	Match

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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 →