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.
Presence & Market Position
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Continue remains the open-source customization layer for developers who want an AI coding assistant inside VS Code or JetBrains, now carried forward within Cursor. Its strategic role centers on giving engineering teams control over models, prompts, context, and workflows rather than prescribing one fixed assistant experience. Broader practitioner conversation remains early so far. Continue’s position is clearest among teams that prefer an extensible coding environment and want the project’s open-source foundation to continue alongside Cursor’s larger product and distribution base.
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Business Profile
Continue started in 2023 as a small, venture-light open-source project — 18 people and $5M raised — building one of the earlier widely-adopted open-source coding agents for VS Code and JetBrains, aimed at developers who wanted to configure their own models and context rather than use a closed-source assistant. In June 2026, Cursor acquired the company, gaining the founding team and the open-source codebase. The code remains publicly available as a foundation for other tools, and the acquisition is framed by the founders as a continuation of the original mission to amplify developers rather than a departure from it.
Agent Readiness
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Continue shipped an API, a CLI, and Model Context Protocol integration, letting developers script their assistant, connect custom context providers, and plug into external MCP servers rather than work inside a fixed feature set — one of the more complete agent-interop layers among open-source coding assistants. That build-out, including the MCP layer, is what Cursor gains from the June 2026 acquisition; the open-source codebase remains available as a foundation for further work.
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