Cline is the open-source AI coding agent for VS Code. It supports the Model Context Protocol, including remote servers, so you can connect ContextBolt Radar and keep watch on your competitors from the editor you already work in.
Cline has file access, so your watch list and every judged change mirror to a ./radar/ folder in your workspace as markdown. Your competitive history lives next to your code, searchable and version-controlled.
Competitor watch in your VS Code flow
Keeping an eye on rivals shouldn’t mean opening a separate dashboard you forget about. With Radar in Cline you ask “what did my competitors do this week?” right in the chat and the judged answer comes back inline, noise already filtered out.
Because these are MCP tools, Cline chains them. “Check rival.io, and if anything material changed, draft how we should respond” is one prompt that calls several tools and writes the result to disk.
Adding it as a remote server
ContextBolt Radar is hosted, so it goes under Cline’s Remote Servers tab, not the local option. Open the MCP Servers panel in Cline, switch to Remote Servers, give it a name like contextbolt-radar, and paste your MCP URL. Cline saves it to cline_mcp_settings.json and loads the tools.
Your URL contains a personal token, so treat it like a password and keep the settings file off public repos. Once the tools appear, name your competitors and the watching starts tonight.
How to connect ContextBolt Radar to Cline
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Subscribe and get your MCP URL
Subscribe to ContextBolt Radar ($39/month, up to 5 competitors). Your private MCP URL arrives by email and looks like https://radar.contextbolt.app/mcp/YOUR_TOKEN. Keep it private, like a password.
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Open Cline's MCP servers panel
In VS Code, open Cline, click the MCP Servers icon at the top of the panel, and switch to the Remote Servers tab. This is where Cline manages hosted MCP servers like ContextBolt Radar.
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Add the server
Enter a name (contextbolt-radar) and paste your MCP URL, then click Add. Cline writes it to cline_mcp_settings.json for you. The server appears in the list and its tools load automatically.
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Name your competitors
In the chat, ask 'what Radar tools do you have?' to confirm the tools loaded, then say 'watch acme.com, rival.io and matter.com' with a line about what you sell. The watching starts tonight.
Example prompts for ContextBolt Radar + Cline
Once connected, try asking Cline:
Adds each to your watch list (free) and stores your context, so every change is judged for your business rather than generically.
Reads all five surfaces plus search and returns an analyst read on day one, also setting the baseline for nightly diffs. Costs 5 credits.
Returns the judged changes with cosmetic noise removed, so you read moves that matter instead of raw diffs, without leaving VS Code.
Cline pulls the receipts, then drafts the offer and a short post in your voice, written to your workspace for review before anything ships.
What you can do with ContextBolt Radar in Cline
Watch up to 5 competitors across pricing, homepage, changelog, sitemap, and search
Get every change judged for significance, so cosmetic noise never reaches you
Ask what changed this week in plain English inside VS Code
Get an instant teardown of any competitor on day one
See a rival's trajectory, like a second price rise since January
Have the counter-move drafted in your voice and saved to your workspace
Read a Monday briefing of real moves, each with a counter-move and receipts
Save your radar to ./radar/ in your workspace as markdown you can grep and commit