Continue

In this catalog it is the Coding Agents option when you need to edit repositories and ship engineering changes. Keep Continue on the observe/propose side of the loop: useful signals and drafts, with human or policy authority still required before anything irreversible runs.

Continue is an IDE coding agent (VS Code/JetBrains): chat, edit, and tools over the workspace with pluggable models/context.

1. Install the IDE extension; configure model + context providers.
2. Chat / inline edit against open files.
3. Tools fetch docs, search, or run commands as allowed.
4. Apply edits back into the workspace.

Related: aider · topics/06-self-coding

• Use when: Continue is an open-core IDE coding agent (VS Code/JetBrains) that chats, edits, and uses tools against the workspace with customizable models and context providers matches the bottleneck and you specifically need to edit repositories and ship engineering changes.
• Skip when: another pack already covers the need with less ops surface, or Continue would become a second place people retype truth.
• Prefer instead: compare Aider before locking the cell.

• Ops: confirm license, hosting, and release cadence for Continue (continuedev/continue) before relying on it in a live corridor.
• Integration: bad credentials, scopes, or schema drift produce empty retrievals or runaway tool/model spend without an obvious UI alarm.
• Scope: Coding Agents components support agents; they are not the company ledger or the approval authority.