Continue

Continue began as an open source coding agent platform spanning a CLI, a VS Code extension, and a JetBrains plugin, with agents definable as markdown files in a repository and runnable locally or as GitHub status checks that review pull requests for quality, security, and compliance. The project supported many model providers, from cloud APIs to local models. Its main GitHub repository has since been made read-only: the final 2.0.0 release removed telemetry and authentication features, and the maintainers position the Apache 2.0 licensed codebase as a foundation for community-driven development rather than an actively maintained product. The CLI remains installable from npm and the extensions are still listed on the VS Code Marketplace, OpenVSX, and the JetBrains plugin repository. Developers evaluating it today typically treat it as a reference implementation of an IDE-integrated coding agent or fork it as a starting point for their own tooling.