Continue is an open-source AI coding agent that was built by a community of developers and has since been acquired by Cursor. Its stated mission was to make sure developers are amplified, not automated. Following the acquisition, the open-source codebase remains freely available as a foundation for others to build on. The page now serves as a farewell notice with questions covering open-source availability, user data and existing subscriptions, rather than as a product signup.
Continue's audience is software developers who want AI help inside their own coding workflow and who value open-source tools they can inspect and adapt. That includes individual programmers, open-source contributors and engineering teams that wanted an assistant they could shape to their stack. Today, the most relevant readers are existing Continue users checking what happened to their data and subscription, and developers who want to fork or study the open-source code for their own projects or tooling.
Before the acquisition, developers used Continue as a coding agent that works alongside them while they write and edit code. Now the practical scenarios are different. A team that relied on Continue can read the FAQ to learn how the transition affects its data and subscription. A maintainer or hobbyist can take the freely available codebase as a starting point for a new assistant or an internal tool. Anyone evaluating AI coding assistants should note that Continue is now part of Cursor and that its original standalone product has ended.
