Continue

Continue is an open-source coding AI extension for VS Code and JetBrains that provides chat, autocomplete, and codebase-aware editing assistance while remaining fully configurable, connecting to any LLM provider rather than being locked into a single vendor's model. The provider-agnostic design enables teams to use Anthropic Claude for complex refactoring, a fast Groq-hosted Llama model for autocomplete latency, and a local Ollama model for privacy-sensitive codebases, all within the same editor experience. Codebase indexing gives the AI awareness of your full repository, enabling context-aware answers to questions like 'where is this function called?' or 'how does authentication work in this project?' without manually providing file contents.

Tab autocomplete integrates with the editor's suggestion system, providing multi-line completions that understand surrounding code context. The edit mode applies changes to specific selected code regions based on a natural language instruction, enabling targeted refactoring without regenerating entire files. With 22,000+ GitHub stars, Continue is a widely adopted open-source coding AI for developers who want flexibility over their model selection, privacy over their codebase data, or prefer JetBrains tools where Cursor and Windsurf don't operate.

Configuration is file-based (config.json), enabling team-wide model and provider settings through version control.