Continue

Continue: Source-Controlled AI Checks for Every Pull Request, Plus Open-Source IDE Assistant

Continue brings AI into the part of the engineering workflow that matters most: pull requests. Source-controlled AI checks run on every PR, codified as standards your team owns and reviews like any other config. Alongside the Continue Hub for teams, the free open-source IDE assistant works inside VS Code and JetBrains with any model. Engineering organizations like Workday, Mercedes-Benz, and Sourcegraph use Continue to enforce quality at the PR layer instead of relying on humans to catch every issue.

Key Features:

• Source-controlled AI checks that run on every pull request
• Standards as code so AI rules live next to the code they check
• Free open-source IDE assistant for VS Code and JetBrains
• Continue Hub for team plans, governance, and audit trails
• Multi-model support across Claude, GPT, Gemini, and local models
• MCP support for first-class tool integrations
• Customizable prompts, models, and rules per team or repo
• Battle-tested at Workday, Mercedes-Benz, Sourcegraph, and more
• Open source on GitHub with an active developer community

Ideal Use Case:

Continue is built for engineering teams that want AI baked into the PR review pipeline rather than bolted onto the IDE. It is especially valuable for organizations that need predictable, source-controlled enforcement of code standards and reviewers who want AI doing the boring parts of review.

Why Use Continue:

• Enforce code standards on every PR with AI checks under version control
• Skip the per-seat IDE plugin and go straight to PR-level enforcement
• Use the free open-source IDE assistant alongside Continue Hub
• Keep humans deciding while AI does the boring review steps
• Plug in any model, including local and self-hosted options
• Adopt the same tool used at Workday, Mercedes-Benz, and Sourcegraph

FAQ

Is Continue free? The Continue IDE assistant is free and open source. Continue Hub for teams has usage-based and enterprise pricing on request.

What does Continue do at PR time? Continue runs source-controlled AI checks on every pull request, defined by your team and stored alongside your code.

What IDEs does Continue support? VS Code and JetBrains are first-class. Other editors are supported via the open-source core.

Does Continue support MCP? Yes. Continue speaks Model Context Protocol so you can plug in tool servers for repo-aware AI workflows.

Who uses Continue? Engineering teams at Workday, Mercedes-Benz, Sourcegraph, and many other organizations.

tl;dr:

Continue moves AI from the IDE into the pull request, where it can actually enforce team standards. Pair the open-source IDE assistant with Continue Hub for teams and you get AI quality control as code, reviewed and shipped the same way your application is.

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