First-party only — a session id and where you arrived from, so we can tell which pages are worth writing more of. No advertising, no third-party trackers, nothing that follows you off this site.
by Continue · reviewed July 25, 2026
Open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains, configured entirely by you.
Continue provides completion, chat and edit inside VS Code and JetBrains, with everything — models, context providers, prompts, rules — declared in configuration you own. It supports local models, custom context providers and MCP, which makes it the most configurable option in this list.
Anything — hosted providers, local models, or a mix per role
Teams with hard requirements about which models may be used, including fully local setups.
Reviewed July 25, 2026. Pricing changes often — check the official site before deciding.
Every tool here reads a project instruction file, and every one of them does better work when that file is accurate. The free Foundations track covers writing one; the Agent Operating Kit is the templates already written.