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Open-source coding assistant/agent for VS Code, JetBrains and CLI (cn) with configurable models and rules; acqui-hired by Cursor in June 2026 and left as a final open-source release.
www.continue.dev/Acquired
Acquired by Cursor (reported by The New Stack 2026-06-22). Final 2.0.0/2.1.0 VS Code releases 2026-06-19; README says repo "is no longer actively maintained and is read-only"; hosted service and subscriptions ended (data export deadline 2026-07-15, per press). (checked 2026-10-25)
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Where it stands apart
- Is it actively maintained? dormant, sunsetting, or archived (5% of 21 others)
- Where do you primarily use it? extension inside an existing IDE (19% of 21 others)
What it shares with most of the community
- How is the main thing licensed? permissive open source (MIT/Apache/BSD) (52% of 21 others)
- How is it mainly sustained? company with a paid product, tier, or ads (71% of 21 others)
- Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? yes (52% of 21 others)
- Who is it for? developers (95% of 21 others)
- How does finished work usually come back to you? edits in your local working tree while you watch (52% of 21 others)
- Whose models can you use? Pick the first that applies. any provider or endpoint you configure (your own key, custom URL, or local model) (67% of 21 others)
- Is pointing it at a model running on your own machine (e.g. Ollama, LM Studio) a documented setup? yes, documented (67% of 21 others)
- Where do the commands it runs execute by default? on your machine with your user's permissions (86% of 21 others)
- Can users add their own tools through MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers? yes (95% of 21 others)
- Does it read project instructions from AGENTS.md? yes, alongside its own file (52% of 21 others)
- When you first set it up, how do you pay for the models it uses by default? with your own API key or local model (the tool itself is free) (52% of 21 others)
Nearest neighbors
- Roo Code 94% of 16 shared answers match
- Cline 88% of 17 shared answers match
- Crush 82% of 17 shared answers match
Every answer
| Question | Answer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Is it actively maintained? | stands apart dormant, sunsetting, or archived | source 2026-10-25 |
| How is the main thing licensed? | permissive open source (MIT/Apache/BSD) Apache-2.0 | source 2026-10-25 |
| How is it mainly sustained? | company with a paid product, tier, or ads Was: Continue Dev Inc. with hosted hub/agents; now acquired by Cursor, no ongoing sustainer. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? | yes Docs include running without internet and an Ollama guide; final release removed auth/telemetry. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Do you need an account to use it? | optional account Log in with Continue or use own Anthropic API key. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Who is it for? | developers | source 2026-10-25 |
| Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? | MCP (Model Context Protocol) MCP tools; reads AGENTS.md alongside its own rules and config. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Where do you primarily use it? | stands apart extension inside an existing IDE VS Code and JetBrains; README now recommends CLI over JetBrains. | source 2026-10-25 |
| How does finished work usually come back to you? | edits in your local working tree while you watch Pre-acquisition cloud agents ended with the hosted service. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Whose models can you use? Pick the first that applies. | any provider or endpoint you configure (your own key, custom URL, or local model) | source 2026-10-25 |
| Is pointing it at a model running on your own machine (e.g. Ollama, LM Studio) a documented setup? | yes, documented Ollama guide in docs. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Out of the box, does it ask you before editing files or running shell commands? | asks before edits and before commands Tool policy 'Ask First' is the default. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Where do the commands it runs execute by default? | on your machine with your user's permissions | source 2026-10-25 |
| Can users add their own tools through MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers? | yes | source 2026-10-25 |
| Does it read project instructions from AGENTS.md? | yes, alongside its own file SUPPORTED_AGENT_FILES = AGENTS.md, AGENT.md, CLAUDE.md plus .continue/rules. | source 2026-10-25 |
| Does it use the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) for agent-editor connections? | no No ACP found in docs. | source 2026-10-25 |
| When you first set it up, how do you pay for the models it uses by default? | with your own API key or local model (the tool itself is free) After shutdown only BYOK remains. | source 2026-10-25 |
Sources
This page was derived from:
- GitHub · github.com/continuedev/continue · read 2026-10-25
- GitHub · github.com/continuedev/continue/blob/main/core/config/markdown/loadMarkdownRules.ts · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · docs.continue.dev/ · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · docs.continue.dev/ide-extensions/agent/how-to-customize · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · www.continue.dev/ · read 2026-10-25
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