Continue

Overview

Continue is an open-source AI coding assistant that runs in VS Code and JetBrains IDEs. It handles autocomplete, chat, edit, and agent-style actions, with first-class support for swapping model providers, hosting your own embeddings, and shipping custom commands to a team via a shared config. Enterprises pick Continue when they need an AI assistant they can actually configure.

Best for

Best for
Teams that need control over models, prompts, and data residency

Use cases

• Drop into JetBrains without abandoning the IDE for Cursor
• Self-host models and embeddings for compliance-sensitive teams
• Ship a shared team config with custom slash commands and context providers
• Mix Anthropic, OpenAI, local Ollama, and Azure in one editor

Notes

Why it matters

Continue is the answer for the regulated bank, the law firm, or the agency that cannot send code to a third-party editor. Configurable beats opinionated when compliance is the gating constraint.

How teams use it in production

A platform team ships a shared .continue/config.json to the org with the approved models, the approved providers, and a curated set of slash commands. Engineers get a consistent assistant without bespoke per-seat setup.

What to watch

Continue’s hub is a live experiment in shareable AI dev tooling. If it lands, it becomes the package manager for prompts.