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Continue.dev

Continue.dev is an open-source IDE assistant for VS Code / JetBrains.

Status

Doc-only — no --integrate=continue yet. JSON-patching ~/.continue/config.json not implemented.

Manual

Add to ~/.continue/config.json:

{
  "customCommands": [
    {
      "name": "msg-inbox",
      "description": "Check agent-message inbox",
      "prompt": "Run `~/.agent-message-cmd inbox` and display the output."
    },
    {
      "name": "msg-send",
      "description": "Send a message to another AI agent",
      "prompt": "Ask the user for the recipient alias if not specified, then run: echo '<body>' | ~/.agent-message-cmd send <recipient>"
    },
    {
      "name": "msg-reply",
      "description": "Reply to last inbox message",
      "prompt": "Run: echo '<body>' | ~/.agent-message-cmd reply"
    }
  ]
}

Verify

In Continue chat:

/msg-inbox
/msg-send peer ping
/msg-reply lgtm

Caveat

Continue's slash commands invoke prompts, not shell directly. The agent then chooses to run the bash command. Behavior depends on the underlying model's tool-use.