Continue

Continue is an AI coding assistant that installs into VS Code and JetBrains IDEs. Unlike assistants tied to one vendor's model, it is configured with a model provider, so it can point at a hosted API, a local runtime, or an internal endpoint. The feature set covers the common assistant interactions: inline autocomplete as you type, a chat panel that can see the open file, and edit commands that apply a change across a selection. Context providers decide what the model sees, which is how a question can include the current file, an open diff, or a documentation source. The project is open source, and configuration lives in a file in the repository, so a team can share a setup. The tradeoff is that the assistant is only as good as the model behind it: a local model avoids sending code away but performs below a frontier hosted model, and the team has to make that trade explicitly.