Open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains with customizable agents, autocomplete, and PR checks.
What is Continue?#
Continue is a leading open-source AI code assistant with extensions for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs. Developers configure their own models, rules, and context providers for chat, autocomplete, edit, and agent tasks. Continue also ships a CLI (`cn`) and a PR checks product that runs AI reviews as GitHub status checks, with Apache-2.0 licensing.
What can Continue do?#
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AI PR checks
Source-controlled AI checks run on every pull request automatically.
- 02
Standards as code
Engineering standards become enforceable checks decided by humans.
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Scales with volume
Quality control stays consistent no matter how many PRs go through.
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Focused enforcement
Enforces only specified standards without surprise opinions.
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Mechanical offload
Frees teams from mechanical review so they focus on architecture.
Use Cases#
- Engineering teams — Let Continuous AI auto-check every pull request against the team's written standards.
- Tech leads — Encode architectural rules once and have AI enforce them across future PRs.
Quick facts about Continue#
- Pricing
- Open source$0/moTeam / PR checksContact salesas of Apr 18, 2026View official pricing
- Domain Rating
- Platforms
- macOS·Windows·Linux·CLI
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