Hacker NewsWhy Cline Doesn't Index Your Codebase (and Why That's a Good Thing)
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Why Cline Doesn't Index Your Codebase (And Why That's a Good Thing) - Cline Blog
Here's a common question we get from prospective Cline users: "How does Cline handle large codebases? Do you use RAG to index everything?" It's a reasonable question. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the go-to solution for giving AI systems access to large knowledge bases. But for Cline, we've taken a deliberately different path. We don't index your codebase, and this choice isn't an oversight's a fundamental design decision that delivers better code quality, stronger security, a