Continue.dev

As an AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, Continue distinguished itself by connecting to any model rather than locking users to one provider: cloud APIs and local models served through Ollama both work. The extensions provide tab autocomplete, chat grounded in the surrounding codebase, inline editing, and customizable prompts and rules, and later releases added agents defined as markdown files that can run as GitHub status checks reviewing pull requests. The entire project is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. Its GitHub repository has now been made read-only, with the 2.0.0 release stripping telemetry and authentication and the codebase offered to the community as a foundation for future development, though the VS Code and JetBrains extensions remain available in their marketplaces. It attracted developers who wanted an open, model-agnostic alternative to proprietary coding assistants, and its source continues to serve as a widely studied example of IDE assistant architecture.