Continue
Terminal and editor coding assistant; upstream says maintenance has ended.
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About Continue
Continue is a coding assistant distributed as a CLI, VS Code extension and JetBrains plugin. On September 15, 2026, its repository README states that the project is no longer actively maintained and describes a final 2.0.0 release. The GitHub API did not mark the repository archived; the maintenance warning comes from the maintainer documentation.
Continue is an open-source project, with 36k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.
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