Open-source AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs with flexible model switching — archived June 2026 after Cursor acqui-hired the team.
Why it matters now: Was a privacy-first, flexible AI coding assistant — archived June 2026 after a Cursor acqui-hire.
Continue.dev was a Y Combinator S23 graduate that built a coding agent philosophy around transparency, control, and flexibility. Unlike Cursor or Copilot, you brought your own model — local via Ollama, or cloud via OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq. The project reached 34,900 GitHub stars and shipped v1.0 in February 2025 with the Continue Hub, a marketplace for sharing coding-agent building blocks.
The project helped define what open-source coding assistants could be: multi-IDE support, MCP integration, tool calling, and agent mode for multi-file edits. However, on June 16, 2026, Cursor acqui-hired the Continue team. The final v2.0.0 release shipped June 19, 2026; the repository is now read-only, and cloud services shut down July 15, 2026.
Honest assessment: Continue is no longer maintained. The Apache 2.0 code is legal to fork and run, but the original upstream is archived. Developers should consider Cline, Claude Code, or other alternatives. It remains valuable as reference material and is kept in this directory for historical/alternatives context.
VS Code or JetBrains IDE; 2 GB RAM minimum; supports Ollama or cloud LLM APIs.