Continue

Continue is an open-source AI coding assistant designed to run directly in your IDE, helping you offload repetitive and boilerplate programming tasks. Its primary purpose is to make software development faster and more efficient by integrating large language models into your existing workflow, without forcing you into a separate tool or interface. Developers can use Continue to generate, refactor, and understand code while staying focused on the core logic and architecture of their projects.

Continue provides in-IDE autocomplete, inline code generation, and natural-language chat that is aware of your current file and project context. It supports multiple backends, including local and remote models, allowing teams to choose between self-hosted and cloud-based AI options. The tool can search across your codebase, docs, and logs so that responses are grounded in your actual project rather than generic examples. Its configuration is file-based and version-controllable, enabling teams to standardize prompts, model choices, and workflows as part of their repository.