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From Extension to Mission Control

We started Continue as an open-source IDE extension. But as coding agents got faster, the problem shifted from writing code to trusting it. Here's what we're building next.

Feb 17, 2026 · 2 min read


Chiseling: The Art of Polishing Vibe Code

Chiseling: The Art of Polishing Vibe Code

The CLI makes it work. Your chiseling makes it right. Mission Control makes it consistent.

Feb 16, 2026 · 3 min read

Fight Code Slop with Continuous AI

Fight Code Slop with Continuous AI

The idea is simple: encode your team's standards into an automated cloud agent that runs before you ever see the PR. Turn your best practices into an AI reviewer.

Feb 9, 2026 · 3 min read

Hands-Free ≠ Human-Free: What “Hands-Free Building” Gets Right About Context and Cloud Agents

Hands-Free ≠ Human-Free: What “Hands-Free Building” Gets Right About Context and Cloud Agents

The biggest gain teams report from these cloud agent workflows isn’t raw speed. It’s that work no longer stalls when humans step away.

Feb 6, 2026 · 2 min read

When Cloud Agents Are the Right Tool (And When They Aren’t)

When Cloud Agents Are the Right Tool (And When They Aren’t)

A practical guide for software teams deciding where cloud agents help, where they don’t, and how to start without creating new risks.

Jan 27, 2026 · 6 min read

We're Losing Open Contribution

We're Losing Open Contribution

Open source is drowning in low-effort AI contributions, leading Ghostty and tldraw to ban them. This post analyzes the crisis of "AI slop" and introduces Leeroy: a tool for adding prompt-level attribution to your git commits.

Jan 22, 2026 · 8 min read

Context for the Agent, Ownership for the Human: Why unowned AI contributions are breaking open source

Context for the Agent, Ownership for the Human: Why unowned AI contributions are breaking open source

AI made code cheap but understanding expensive. How unowned AI contributions are burning out maintainers and why open source must rebalance responsibility.

Jan 21, 2026 · 4 min read

5 Security Chores You Should Offload to Cloud Agents (Before They Burn You Out)

5 Security Chores You Should Offload to Cloud Agents (Before They Burn You Out)

Security alerts aren’t the problem, manual fixes are. See 5 security chores you can offload to Cloud Agents.

Jan 14, 2026 · 4 min read

What are the Top Automated Cloud Agent Workflows for Platform Engineering Teams

What are the Top Automated Cloud Agent Workflows for Platform Engineering Teams

Cloud agents help platform engineering teams reduce friction, triage alerts, and automate fixes using Continuous AI across GitHub, Sentry, Snyk, and more.

Jan 6, 2026 · 3 min read

The Platform Gap: How to Scale Your Engineering Without Scaling Headcount (Yet)

The Platform Gap: How to Scale Your Engineering Without Scaling Headcount (Yet)

Caught in the "Platform Gap"? Discover how small full-stack teams use Continuous AI to automate maintenance tasks—like Sentry triage and Snyk patching—without hiring a dedicated Platform Engineer.

Dec 22, 2025 · 3 min read

Bug Reports Should Fix Themselves: Dogfooding Our Slack Cloud Agent with GitHub and Linear

Bug Reports Should Fix Themselves: Dogfooding Our Slack Cloud Agent with GitHub and Linear

How to Automate Bug Reporting with AI Agents: A Guide to Slack, GitHub, and Linear Integration

Dec 15, 2025 · 4 min read

Continue Newsletter - Winter Launch Week 2025

Continue Newsletter - Winter Launch Week 2025

Why are you manually bridging the gap between your tools? Continue updates turn your fragmented toolchain—Slack, Sentry, GitHub, and more—into a self-healing system.

Dec 9, 2025 · 2 min read

Introducing Metrics in Mission Control: Measure the Real Impact of Your Cloud Agents

Introducing Metrics in Mission Control: Measure the Real Impact of Your Cloud Agents

Track the real impact of your cloud agents with Metrics in Mission Control. See workflow runs, PR output, automation trends, and measurable Continuous AI performance.

Dec 5, 2025 · 2 min read

Transform DevTool Alerts Into Automated Engineering Workflows with Continue

Transform DevTool Alerts Into Automated Engineering Workflows with Continue

These integrations let your existing developer tools become triggers for automated AI workflows—no changes to your stack, no new dashboards, no new process overhead.

Dec 4, 2025 · 3 min read

AI is Glue

AI is Glue

LLMs are the new glue code for engineering workflows. See how AI connects deterministic tools like the GitHub CLI and Snyk API, filling the gaps to automate complex tasks that were previously impractical.

Dec 3, 2025 · 3 min read

Turn Slack Conversations into GitHub PRs Automatically

Turn Slack Conversations into GitHub PRs Automatically

Turn Slack conversations into GitHub issues, tasks, and pull requests automatically with Continue’s cloud agent integrations. Reduce workflow friction and automate engineering processes directly from Slack.

Dec 3, 2025 · 4 min read

Automate Your Developer Work in Two Clicks with Cloud Agents

Automate Your Developer Work in Two Clicks with Cloud Agents

Turn repetitive developer tasks into ai automation in two clicks. Draft changelogs, improve test coverage, optimize your site, or customize what your team needs—all without writing scripts or configuring CI/CD.

Dec 2, 2025 · 4 min read

Introducing Mission Control: Your Upgraded Developer AI Dashboard

Introducing Mission Control: Your Upgraded Developer AI Dashboard

Continue's Mission Control redesign makes it faster to set up AI workflows that turn signals from your devtools into automated fixes, PRs, and documentation. See what's new and start building today.

Dec 1, 2025 · 3 min read

How Continue Cloud Agents Increase Developer Productivity

How Continue Cloud Agents Increase Developer Productivity

Automate the dev tasks you keep avoiding. Continue Cloud Agents turn friction-heavy “frog” work into fast, review-ready output so your team ships faster.

Nov 20, 2025 · 4 min read

Stop Asking AI to Build the Whole Feature: The Art of Focused Task Decomposition

Stop Asking AI to Build the Whole Feature: The Art of Focused Task Decomposition

When you get task decomposition right, you start to see patterns. The tasks that repeat themselves become obvious, and you can use AI to automate them.

Nov 10, 2025 · 4 min read

Trust Builds Through Repetition, Not Demos

Trust Builds Through Repetition, Not Demos

From supervised to autonomous: trust builds gradually through repetition.

Nov 6, 2025 · 4 min read

Individual Workflows Scale Linearly. Composed Workflows Compound.

Individual Workflows Scale Linearly. Composed Workflows Compound.

Composed workflows create exponential advantages through interconnection.

Nov 5, 2025 · 3 min read

Self-Driving Dreams Requires Open Roads

Self-Driving Dreams Requires Open Roads

Self-driving SaaS requires open workflows that connect all your tools.

Oct 31, 2025 · 3 min read

What Are Continue Agents? Any Workflow, Your Team's Way

What Are Continue Agents? Any Workflow, Your Team's Way

Agents are shareable, remixable, and ready to run from CLI, mission control, or automation. Designed to solve a specific task with your team's standards built-in.

Oct 29, 2025 · 11 min read

You Can't Rent Your Competitive Advantage

You Can't Rent Your Competitive Advantage

Your competitive advantage: built on workflows only you can create.

Oct 29, 2025 · 4 min read

The Hidden Cost of Tool Switching

The Hidden Cost of Tool Switching

Context switching kills flow. Every switch between your IDE and ChatGPT adds time, errors, and cost. Integrated AI tools keep you productive.

Oct 27, 2025 · 3 min read

Beyond Code Generation: How Continue Enables AI Code Review at Scale

Beyond Code Generation: How Continue Enables AI Code Review at Scale

What if your AI assistant could do more than just write code? What if it could reason about your codebase, enforce standards, and provide intelligent feedback?

Oct 22, 2025 · 4 min read

From Vibe Engineering to Continuous AI

From Vibe Engineering to Continuous AI

Vibe coding emerged to describe fast, loose experimentation with AI. Now Simon Willison has proposed vibe engineering — here's how it connects to Continuous AI.

Oct 8, 2025 · 2 min read

Introducing Agents: Run Continuous AI in the Background

Introducing Agents: Run Continuous AI in the Background

Today we're shipping Agents, allowing you to run and manage cloud agents in Continue.

Oct 1, 2025 · 3 min read

Stop Copy-Pasting Code Into ChatGPT: Build Your Own AI Assistant Instead

Stop Copy-Pasting Code Into ChatGPT: Build Your Own AI Assistant Instead

ChatGPT has no idea what you're working on. Build an AI Assistant today using Continue's cn CLI and our new cookbooks if you really want to amplify your productivity.

Sep 30, 2025 · 6 min read

Automating User Experience Issues: A Continuous AI Workflow for PostHog Session Analysis

Automating User Experience Issues: A Continuous AI Workflow for PostHog Session Analysis

How we built an automated system that transforms user session data into actionable GitHub issues using Continue CLI—no bash scripts required

Sep 24, 2025 · 3 min read

The New Attack Surface: Why AI Agents Need Security by Design

The New Attack Surface: Why AI Agents Need Security by Design

Learn about the "Lethal Trifecta" in AI agent security, a new threat model for systems that read/write files, make network requests, and access secrets. Discover how Continue addresses these vulnerabilities with defense-in-depth strategies and why security by design is crucial for AI tools.

Sep 16, 2025 · 6 min read

Continue Newsletter - September 2025

Continue Newsletter - September 2025

The Week AI Coding Got More Human. Launch week at Continue.

Sep 3, 2025 · 1 min read

Is Your Team Ready for Continuous AI? A Complete Assessment Guide

Is Your Team Ready for Continuous AI? A Complete Assessment Guide

Learn how to assess your team’s readiness for Continuous AI. Explore maturity levels, key success dimensions, and a step-by-step roadmap for moving from individual AI experiments to team-wide adoption.

Sep 3, 2025 · 5 min read

Why Every Development Team Will Need Continuous AI

Why Every Development Team Will Need Continuous AI

The same market forces that made DevOps inevitable are now driving Continuous AI adoption across the industry.

Aug 28, 2025 · 5 min read

Beyond the Editor: How I'm Using Continue CLI to Automate Everything

Beyond the Editor: How I'm Using Continue CLI to Automate Everything

AI can feel magical when you're filling in a function, but when you step back and try to build a real application, their usefulness drops off. Here's how Continue CLI changes that.

Aug 27, 2025 · 4 min read

Building Cloud Agents with Continue CLI

Building Cloud Agents with Continue CLI

Continue CLI brings continuous AI to your terminal. Generate smart commits, run parallel analysis, and automate coding workflows with AI agents.

Aug 21, 2025 · 5 min read

What is Continuous AI? A Developer's Guide

What is Continuous AI? A Developer's Guide

Discover how to implement Continuous AI in your development workflows with our maturity model, platform-agnostic approach, and key metric to boost coding productivity.

Aug 13, 2025 · 4 min read

Intervention Rates Are the New Build Times

Intervention Rates Are the New Build Times

Remember when CI/CD teams obsessed over build times? That single metric captured everything: code quality, infrastructure efficiency, process bottlenecks. Teams that measured and improved build times systematically ended up transforming how they shipped software.

Jul 21, 2025 · 3 min read

Context Engineering: The Bottleneck to Better Continuous AI

Context Engineering: The Bottleneck to Better Continuous AI

As platform teams explore Continuous AI, context engineering has emerged as the primary bottleneck preventing them from automating more of their software development workflows.

Jul 3, 2025 · 6 min read

From Open Source to Continue: My Journey to CEO

From Open Source to Continue: My Journey to CEO

I'm excited to announce that I'm joining Continue as CEO. After months of deep involvement with the team, it just started to make sense.

May 20, 2025 · 6 min read