For developers who want to customize their coding assistant, Continue is an open-source AI autopilot for VS Code and JetBrains, now developed under Cursor after its acquisition.
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Continue occupies a specific niche within AI coding tools: an open-source autopilot for VS Code and JetBrains built so developers can customize and extend their own assistant rather than adopt a closed, single-vendor tool. Its acquisition by Cursor folds that open-source approach into a much larger coding-agent platform, continuing the project rather than closing it out. Public conversation naming Continue directly is a quieter footprint so far, without the comparison threads or workflow write-ups that surround the broader coding-agent category it sits inside.
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Continue launched in 2023 as an open-source coding assistant, raising a modest $5 million and staying compact at 18 employees before its acquisition by Cursor. The acquisition is framed as continuity rather than closure: the team says its mission to keep developers 'amplified, not automated' carries into the work ahead, and the open-source codebase remains available for others to build on. The deal folds a community-built, customizable coding agent into Cursor's larger platform rather than shutting it down.
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Continue has shipped a public API and a CLI, giving developers both programmatic and command-line ways to run and extend the coding agent outside its editor extensions. As an open-source project now under Cursor, its agent-facing build-out has centered on making the assistant scriptable and embeddable rather than confined to a single IDE experience.
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