What is this?
Continue is an open-source coding agent that ships three ways: as a CLI, a VS Code extension, and a JetBrains plugin.
Continue is an open-source coding agent that ships three ways: as a CLI, a VS Code extension, and a JetBrains plugin.Is this one app or several separate tools?It is not a single app — it is the same coding agent packaged as a standalone CLI, a VS Code extension, and a JetBrains plugin.
It is not a single app — it is the same coding agent packaged as a standalone CLI, a VS Code extension, and a JetBrains plugin.How do I get it running?Install whichever form fits your workflow — the VS Code extension, the JetBrains plugin, or the CLI — then use the Continue Docs to configure and customize it.
Install whichever form fits your workflow — the VS Code extension, the JetBrains plugin, or the CLI — then use the Continue Docs to configure and customize it.Is this project still being developed?No — the repository is no longer actively maintained and has been made read-only for everyone after a final 2.0.0 release across all three products.
No — the repository is no longer actively maintained and has been made read-only for everyone after a final 2.0.0 release across all three products.Should I use the CLI or the JetBrains plugin?The maintainers explicitly recommend using the Continue CLI over the JetBrains plugin.
The maintainers explicitly recommend using the Continue CLI over the JetBrains plugin.Why was Continue discontinued?The team did a final 2.0.0 release across the VS Code extension, CLI, and JetBrains plugin, then froze the repo to read-only, leaving the codebase as a foundation for others to build on.
The team did a final 2.0.0 release across the VS Code extension, CLI, and JetBrains plugin, then froze the repo to read-only, leaving the codebase as a foundation for others to build on.What changed in the final 2.0.0 release?It removed anonymous telemetry, pulled out authentication, and squashed a number of bugs across all three products.
It removed anonymous telemetry, pulled out authentication, and squashed a number of bugs across all three products.Can I still get support or updates for Continue?No active development or support should be expected since the repository is now permanently read-only.
No active development or support should be expected since the repository is now permanently read-only.What are similar projects?qwen-code, Roo-Code, oh-my-pi, codex, cline, billion-context, openclaude, Mobile-Harness
qwen-code, Roo-Code, oh-my-pi, codex, cline, billion-context, openclaude, Mobile-HarnessWhich topics is it in?ai-coding-agent, coding-assistant, jetbrains, vscode-extension, ide, deprecated, agents, command-line, coding-agent, ai-agent, command-line-tool, agent
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