About Continue
Continue is an open-source coding agent available as a CLI, a VS Code extension and a JetBrains plugin. It is aimed at developers who want to customize AI coding assistance. The repository is no longer actively maintained and is read-only.
Key features
- 01CLI, VS Code and JetBrains forms
- 02Open-source coding agent codebase
- 032.0.0 release removes anonymous telemetry
- 04Documentation covers configuration and customization
Use cases
- 01Using a coding agent inside VS Code
- 02Running a coding agent from the command line
- 03Studying or extending the codebase
Details
From the project READMEContinue
Pioneering open-source coding agent
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continuedev/continuerepository is no longer actively maintained and is read-only for all users.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.
Contributors
Thank you to the entire Continue community for helping us create a pioneering coding agent.
What we built together pushed the boundaries of what AI developer tooling could be.
We hope this codebase continues to serve as a foundation for others.
Code friends
License
Apache 2.0 © 2023-2026 Continue Dev, Inc.
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