Continue is an open-source AI coding assistant that helps developers automate repetitive development tasks through background agents and workflows. It offers a CLI tool for terminal-based automation, IDE extensions for VS Code and JetBrains, and Mission Control for managing automated workflows. The platform includes pre-built workflows for popular tools like GitHub, Sentry, Snyk, and Linear that can be customized and triggered on events or schedules to handle tasks like fixing bugs, addressing security alerts, and managing pull requests automatically.
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