Continue

Continue is an Apache 2.0 licensed AI coding tool built by Continue Dev, Inc., a Y Combinator-backed company founded in 2023 by Ty Dunn and Nate Sesti. The project began as a vendor-neutral IDE extension and now extends into source-controlled AI checks that run as GitHub status checks during pull request review. Continue ships no proprietary models and works as an orchestration layer over external providers and local LLMs.

Key Capabilities:

• VS Code and JetBrains extensions with Chat, Plan, and Agent modes for in-editor workflows

• Continue CLI for running AI checks in CI pipelines through markdown-defined rules in .continue/checks/

• Universal model support covering OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Mistral, Together, and others

• Local model execution through Ollama, LM Studio, and Msty for offline and air-gapped use

• Workspace-wide context gathering across open files, related code, and git diffs

• Side-by-side diff view with per-change accept and reject controls

• Team standards enforcement through .continue/rules/ directory configuration

• Cloud Agents and Mission Control for managing remote agent runs

• Continue Hub marketplace for sharing custom assistants, rules, and skills

• YAML and TypeScript configuration files for project-specific customization

• Open source under Apache 2.0 license with self-hostable deployment