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Verified
Open IDE agents, acquired by Cursor, source still public.
Continue is an open-source IDE extension for VS Code and JetBrains that chats, edits, and runs agentic tasks against models you configure. Cursor announced an acquisition in 2026. The repository remained public at verification. Treat the extension as a local harness, not as Cursor Cloud Agents.
- Model independence
- Multi-model
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Open source
- Yes
- License
- Apache-2.0 (see repo)
- Pricing model
- Mixed
- Added / updated
- 19 Aug 2026 / 19 Aug 2026
continue.dev · Docs · Source
Editorial take
Continue is the listing to keep watching after the Cursor acquisition: the question is whether the open extension stays a real product or becomes a compatibility shim. As of this verifiedAt it still documents BYO models and a public repo. It is not a factory. It is an IDE agent you can point at Ollama. Do not confuse it with Cursor’s closed cloud runtime.
Strengths
- Works in VS Code and JetBrains with bring-your-own model endpoints.
- Source remains public; you can read how context is built.
- No requirement to send the repo to a vendor workspace.
Limitations
- Acquisition risk. Roadmap and license can change; re-check the repo.
- No first-class sandbox or unattended worker.
- Hub/cloud extras, if any, are not the open extension. Read the current docs.