Continue
Bring-your-own-model assistant for VS Code and JetBrains
Overview
Autocomplete, chat and edits driven by whichever model you point it at, including one running on your own hardware. That makes it one of the few realistic options where code cannot leave the building. Configuration is more involved than the hosted alternatives — the price of that flexibility.
What can you do with Continue?
- Install the VS Code extension or the CLI — The extension installs from the Marketplace or OpenVSX and the terminal agent is the
@continuedev/clipackage on npm, both carrying the final 2.0.0 build. - Take the CLI over the JetBrains plugin — The plugin is distributed through GitHub Releases, but the README recommends using the Continue CLI instead of it, so on IntelliJ-family IDEs the terminal agent is the path the maintainers point at.
- Run it with no telemetry — The final 2.0.0 release removed anonymous telemetry and pulled out authentication, so the agent runs without an account or a sign-in step.
- Fork it to go past 2.0.0 —
continuedev/continueis read-only and no longer actively maintained, and the source for each surface sits inextensions/vscode,extensions/cliandextensions/intellijunder Apache-2.0, so any further fix has to come from a fork.
Documentation
Reproduced from the continuedev/continue README, published under Apache-2.0. Read the original ↗
What is Continue?
Note: The
continuedev/continuerepository is no longer actively maintained and is read-only for all users.
Continue is a coding agent available as a CLI, VS Code extension, and JetBrains plugin.
Documentation
To learn how to configure Continue, how it works, and how to customize it, check out the Continue Docs.
Final 2.0.0 Release
We polished Continue and did a final 2.0.0 release of the VS Code extension, CLI, and JetBrains plugin.
This included removing anonymous telemetry, pulling out authentication, squashing bugs, and more.
VS Code
CLI
JetBrains
Note: We recommend using the Continue CLI instead of the JetBrains plugin.