IDE extension · discontinued
Continue
A discontinued open-source IDE and terminal coding agent retained to document its final release and migration context.
Visit Continue ↗Checked Sep 08, 2026 · review due Dec 07, 2026
- Best for
- Existing Continue users maintaining a final 2.0 installation or planning a controlled migration.
- Avoid if
- You are selecting a maintained coding agent; Continue is no longer actively developed.
01 / Editorial view
Where it fits
Strengths
- Autocomplete, edit, chat, and agent modes
- Wide cloud and local model support
- Final clients remain available under Apache-2.0
Limitations
- The repository is read-only and no longer receives product development
- Hosted team services are no longer represented as a current offering
02 / Workflow
Surfaces and capabilities
- Autocomplete
- Yes
- Chat
- Yes
- Agent
- Yes
- Background agent
- Yes
- Review
- Yes
- Testing
- Yes
Editors
Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDEs
Operating systems
macOS, Windows, Linux
Repository hosts
GitHub
Languages
Language-agnostic
Bring your own key
Yes
Bring your own model
Yes
03 / Cost and deployment
What it costs to run
Individual
The final open-source IDE extensions and CLI remain available; model-provider costs are separate.
Team
Unknown
Enterprise
Unknown
Continue shipped a final 2.0.0 release after its acquisition by Cursor; the repository is read-only.
04 / Privacy
Data handling
- Code processing
- The IDE extension and CLI send selected context to the configured model provider; local and self-hosted providers are supported.
- Indexing
- Embedding providers can be configured for codebase retrieval.
- Retention
- Unknown
- Training policy
- The final 2.0.0 release removed anonymous telemetry; the configured model provider’s policy applies to model requests.
- Enterprise controls
- Source-controlled configuration, Self-hosted models, Tool permission policies, Headless CI mode
05 / Evidence
Primary sources
- Continue IDE extension quick start ↗Checked Sep 08, 2026classification.interfaces, capabilities
- Continue CLI quick start ↗Checked Sep 08, 2026classification, capabilities, privacy.enterprise_controls
- Continue model configuration ↗Checked Sep 08, 2026models, deployment.self_hosted
- Continue repository ↗Checked Sep 08, 2026identity.status, deployment, classification, compatibility, capabilities.background_agent, pricing
Changelog
What changed
- Continue repository archived after final 2.0.0 releaseSep 17, 2026The continuedev/continue repository is read-only after a final 2.0.0 release of the VS Code extension, CLI, and JetBrains plugin, so the profile is recorded as discontinued and retained for migration context.
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