Support ClinePass (cline-pass provider) in Kanban

[yashgada]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Yes. I can't use my ClinePass subscription models in Kanban — cards fail immediately at startup with:

Error: Unknown or disabled provider "cline-pass".
    at <ProviderRegistry>.resolveModel (.../kanban/dist/cli.js:NNNNNN:25)
    at <Gateway>.stream (.../kanban/dist/cli.js:NNNNNN:33)
    ...

ClinePass works fine everywhere else (VS Code extension and the cline CLI), which is what makes this feel like it should work in Kanban too.

Current behavior

• In the Kanban board, starting any card configured to use the cline agent with the cline-pass provider throws Unknown or disabled provider "cline-pass" and the card never runs.
• The error is thrown by Kanban's bundled provider registry at model resolution, before any auth/token check — so it happens regardless of whether the ClinePass token is valid.
• The same cline-pass provider works correctly in the cline CLI and the VS Code extension, because those run on the newer @cline/core + @cline/llms lineage that includes the cline-pass provider definition.

Expected behavior

Kanban should support the cline-pass provider so ClinePass subscribers can run cards using their included ClinePass models (e.g. cline-pass/glm-5.2, cline-pass/deepseek-v4-pro, cline-pass/deepseek-v4-flash), with the higher rate limits ClinePass provides. Since ~/.cline/data/globalState.json (Plan/Act provider) is shared across the CLI, extension, and Kanban, selecting cline-pass in the CLI/extension should carry into Kanban seamlessly.

Steps to reproduce

1. Sign in to ClinePass in the cline CLI (and/or the VS Code extension), so planModeApiProvider / actModeApiProvider in ~/.cline/data/globalState.json become cline-pass.
2. Install Kanban: npm i -g kanban (currently resolves to 0.1.68).
3. From a git repo, run kanban and start a card using the cline agent.
4. The card errors out with Unknown or disabled provider "cline-pass" (logged under the agent_error hook event).

Root cause / analysis

It looks like a bundled-core lineage gap:

• Kanban 0.1.68 depends on @clinebot/core ^0.0.38 (the older core lineage), and bundles it inline into dist/cli.js via esbuild. There is no cline-pass / ClinePass string anywhere in Kanban's dist/cli.js — only cline, openrouter, openai-native, etc.
• The cline CLI (3.0.34) and the VS Code extension instead use the newer @cline/core + @cline/llms lineage, where cline-pass is registered (in @cline/llms, the cline-pass provider is defined as the "ClinePass" endpoint, alongside cline = "Cline Usage-Billing"). That's why it works there.
• The 0.1.68 release notes mention adding OpenAI ChatGPT Subscription and v0 providers via the 0.0.36 → 0.0.38 SDK bump, but ClinePass wasn't included.
• As of right now, @clinebot/core latest on npm is also 0.0.38 (nightly = same base), so bumping Kanban's dependency doesn't help yet, and building Kanban from the main branch (which still pins @clinebot/core ^0.0.38) yields the same result.

In short: the cline-pass provider definition needs to land in the core that Kanban bundles.

Proposed solution

Bring the cline-pass provider into Kanban's bundled core. Options that would unblock users:

• Add the cline-pass provider to @clinebot/core (mirroring the definition in @cline/llms), and bump Kanban's @clinebot/core dependency, or
• Migrate Kanban to the @cline/core + @cline/llms lineage used by the cline CLI / VS Code extension (which already ships cline-pass).

Either way, once the bundled registry knows cline-pass, Kanban should pick it up from the shared globalState.json/providers.json with no user-facing config change.

Why this matters

ClinePass is the flat-rate subscription path, and Kanban is the natural place to run many agents in parallel — but the higher ClinePass rate limits are exactly what makes parallel cards viable. Right now ClinePass subscribers can't use their subscription in Kanban at all and have to fall back to usage-billing or a BYO key, which defeats the point of the subscription for the Kanban workflow.

Environment

• Kanban: 0.1.68 (npm view kanban dist-tags → latest: 0.1.68)
• cline CLI: 3.0.34
• @clinebot/core: 0.0.38 (Kanban's dependency; latest on npm)
• @cline/core / @cline/llms: 0.0.54 (CLI/extension lineage that supports cline-pass)
• OS: macOS (Apple Silicon)
• Node: v22.x

Happy to provide log snippets or run anything to help reproduce. Thanks!
PS. I created this doc from clinepass GLM 5.2 as well, via the cline cli.

[yashgada]

I've created this guys
#552

[lthung1504]

i have the same issue

[yashgada]

Thanks for the comment. Can you share anything more to get more attention from the maintainers?

[Risyandi]

I got the same issue when trying to run cline kanban, but in a separate discussion, the issue has been fixed, but still a review and merge process.

• fix(cline-sdk): unblock ClinePass cards and model selection #580