Connect Cline to a remote MCP server

Cline reaches your tunnel over Streamable HTTP and accepts the standard mcpServers block verbatim.

The config entry

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "notes-via-tunnel": {
      "url": "https://notes--acme.mcppipe.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Where the config file lives

Cline ships as a VS Code extension, so its settings live under the extension’s global storage rather than anywhere obvious:

<config dir>/Code/User/globalStorage/saoudrizwan.claude-dev/settings/cline_mcp_settings.json

where <config dir> is:

OS	Path
Windows	`%APPDATA%`
macOS	`~/Library/Application Support`
Linux	`~/.config` (or `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME`)

The path is the same shape on every platform once anchored on the config directory.

Auto-detect

mcppipe up with no arguments scans that path along with the other clients, so a server already configured in Cline can be exposed without retyping it. See what it finds with mcppipe detect --json.

IP allowlist

Cline runs inside your editor, on your machine, so the relevant allowlist entry is your own egress IP.