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What is Continue?
An open-source, IDE-agnostic AI assistant that brings chat, autocomplete, and automated pull request reviews into your editor while allowing you to plug in any LLM.
Continue is an open-source extension for VS Code and JetBrains that prioritizes user control and privacy. It allows developers to connect to any model (local or cloud) and perform inline edits. Additionally, Continue can run as a CI tool, executing AI checks on pull requests via markdown-defined rules.
How it relates to Orbit
Orbit sits beside an in-editor assistant like Continue rather than replacing it: your editor still edits code, and Orbit handles the queue and everything around it. See What is Orbit for details.
When you would use it
You use Continue when you want a highly customizable, open-source AI coding assistant that doesn't lock you into a specific vendor and allows you to enforce AI checks in your CI/CD pipeline.
Common operations
- Connecting a locally hosted open-weight model to your IDE for private coding.
- Enforcing security reviews on every GitHub pull request automatically.
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