Continue
Open-source assistant you configure yourself
- Open source
- Coding Assistants
What it is
Continue is an open-source IDE extension for VS Code and JetBrains offering completion, chat and edit modes against whatever model you point it at — a hosted API or a local runtime. Its configuration is declarative, so a team can version its assistant setup, context providers and prompts in the repository like any other code. Model choice is deliberately left open.
Best for
Teams that need an assistant running against self-hosted or security-approved models under configuration they control.
Where it falls short
You own the integration work — model selection, context tuning and output quality are your responsibility rather than a vendor default.
Characteristics
- ide-extension
- self-hosted
- model-agnostic
- configurable
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