Customization Overview

Learn how to customize Continue with model providers, context providers, slash commands, and tools to create your perfect AI coding assistant

Continue can be deeply customized to fit your specific development workflow and preferences. This guide covers the main ways you can customize Continue to enhance your coding experience.

Change Your Model Provider

Continue allows you to choose your favorite or even add multiple model providers. This allows you to use different models for different tasks, or to try another model if you’re not happy with the results from your current model. Continue supports all of the popular model providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft/Azure, Mistral, and more. You can even self host your own model provider if you’d like. Learn more about model providers.

Select Different Models for Specific Tasks

Different Continue features can use different models. We call these model roles. For example, you can use a different model for chat than you do for autocomplete. Learn more about model roles.

Add a Context Provider

Context providers allow you to add information to your prompts, giving your LLM additional context to work with. Context providers allow you to reference snippets from your codebase, or lookup relevant documentation, or use a search engine to find information and much more. Learn more about context providers.

Create a Slash Command

Slash commands allow you to easily add custom functionality to Continue. You can use a slash command that allows you to generate a shell command from natural language, or perhaps generate a commit message, or create your own custom command to do whatever you want. Learn more about slash commands.

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Whatever you choose, you’ll probably start by editing your Assistant.

Edit Your Assistant

You can easily access your assistant configuration from the Continue Chat sidebar. Open the sidebar by pressing cmd/ctrl + L (VS Code) or cmd/ctrl + J (JetBrains) and click the Assistant selector above the main chat input. Then, you can hover over an assistant and click the new window (hub assistants) or gear (local assistants) icon.

Manage Your Assistant

• See Editing Hub Assistants for more details on managing your hub assistant
• See the Config Deep Dive for more details on configuring local assistants.