# Continue

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/continue-dev/  
**Website:** https://www.continue.dev/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

Continue is the open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains, distributed under Apache 2.0. The Continue IDE extensions and the Continue CLI federate to any LLM provider — Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral, OpenRouter, Ollama, and a Continue-managed proxy — and load their configuration from Continue Hub. Continue Hub (api.continue.dev) is the registry and IDE API that serves assistants, blocks, models, rules, prompts, docs, and MCP servers to the extensions, along with free-trial status, organization policy, secrets sync, and the Stripe checkout URL for the Models Add-On. Continue has also pivoted into "continuous AI" — source- controlled checks that live as markdown files under .continue/checks/ and run in CI as GitHub status checks.

## Kin Score — 48.6 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 48.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 65.0 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 57.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 35.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (5)

- **Continue IDE Extensions** — Open-source IDE plugins shipping for VS Code and JetBrains. Provide chat, edit, apply, autocomplete, and agent modes. Bring your own LLM (Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral, OpenRouter,...
- **Continue CLI** — Open-source command-line interface powering Continue's source-controlled AI checks. Checks are markdown files in .continue/checks/ that run as full AI agents against pull reques...
- **Continue Hub** — Hosted registry where teams publish and share assistants, blocks (models, rules, prompts, docs, MCP servers, context providers), and policy. Powers the Continue Hub IDE API and ...
- **Continue Mission Control** — Observability surface for tracking check outcomes, agent runs, and adoption metrics across an organization's repositories. Part of the Team and Company tiers.
- **Continue Ide API** — The Ide API from Continue — 8 operation(s) for ide.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Continue Dev Agentic Access** — 8 operations · 1 acting

## Security (2)

- **Continue Dev Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Continue Dev Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Continue Dev Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (8)

- **In-editor AI chat, edit, and apply** — Use any frontier or local model directly inside VS Code and JetBrains without lock-in to one vendor.
- **Source-controlled coding standards enforced in CI** — Define checks as markdown in .continue/checks/, have AI enforce them on every PR, see results as GitHub status checks.
- **Team-shared assistants** — Publish assistants on Continue Hub so every engineer pulls the same models, rules, prompts, docs, and MCP servers.
- **BYO LLM cost control** — Federate to a self-hosted Ollama, an OpenRouter account, or your own Anthropic/OpenAI key to keep AI spend on your existing provider.
- **On-prem prompt isolation** — Route model traffic through an on-prem Continue proxy so prompts and secrets never leave the corporate network.
- **Local autocomplete with Ollama** — Run code completion against a local model for zero-egress, zero-cost inference.
- **MCP tool integration** — Compose MCP servers into a Continue assistant to give the agent access to internal tools without writing extension code.
- **Continuous AI** — Apply Continue's "standards as checks" model to legacy codebases — codify standards in markdown, then have AI agents drag the codebase toward them.

## Tags

Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Code Assistant, Open-Source, VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, MCP, Apache 2.0

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/continue-dev/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.