Agent · Assistive

Continue

Name: Continue
Author: Continue

Continue is an open-source IDE extension for building your own AI code assistant with custom models, context providers, and slash commands. Works in VS Code and JetBrains.

by Continue·Fully open·Apache-2.0·Launched Jul 2023

Website GitHub

Capability

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no benchmarks

GitHub stars

32.5k

+232 · 7d

Harness

ReAct loop

Hybrid tools

Environments

IDE

Capability

No public benchmark submissions · yet

Continue has not published benchmark scores on SWE-bench Verified, GAIA, OSWorld or τ-bench. Check the GitHub repo or vendor site for the latest · we track new submissions daily.

Momentum

30-day star trajectory · velocity 58/100

Current

32,487

7d Δ

+232

30d Δ

+788

The Stack

Brain · Harness · Tools · Environment

Brains

Which LLM powers it

claude-sonnet-4-6gpt-5

Harness

The loop pattern

ReAct loop

Tools

How it acts on the world

Hybrid

Environments

Where it lives

IDE

Frequently asked

Pulled from the dataset · updated daily

What is Continue?

Continue is an open-source IDE extension for building your own AI code assistant with custom models, context providers, and slash commands. Works in VS Code and JetBrains.

What model powers Continue?

Continue runs on claude-sonnet-4-6 and gpt-5. It uses a react loop pattern with hybrid tools.

Is Continue open-source?

Yes · Continue is fully open-source under the Apache-2.0 license. The harness, tools, and loop code are all public on GitHub at continuedev/continue.

How popular is Continue?

Continue has 32,487 stars on GitHub and gained 232 in the last 7 days across 508 contributors.