84,000+ SKILL.md files you can use with Cline — the open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code. Drop a skill's guidance into Cline's .clinerules/ folder and it loads as standing project context. Free to browse. Pro unlocks the multi-signal Quality Score.
cp <skill>/SKILL.md .clinerules/<slug>.md
Cline is one of the most-installed open-source AI coding agents — a VS Code extension that plans, edits across multiple files, runs terminal commands, and connects to MCP servers. It reads project instructions from a .clinerules/ directory, which is where a SKILL.md's guidance lives once adapted.
SKILL.md into .clinerules/<slug>.md at your project root (Cline reads every file in .clinerules/).Cline consumes plain-markdown rules, not SKILL.md frontmatter — so the skill's body and instructions port directly, while the YAML header is simply ignored. A few patterns to watch:
allowed-tools: and other Claude-specific frontmatter keys are ignored — Cline has its own tool set and runs shell commands natively.scripts/ work, because Cline can execute commands in your workspace..clinerules/ files so Cline loads only what's relevant.~/.claude/skills/. Instead it reads markdown rules from .clinerules/ — so you adapt a SKILL.md into that folder. The body ports directly; the frontmatter is ignored.
.clinerules/ folder (or single .clinerules file) at the workspace root. Global rules are set in Cline's settings panel.