Image: ByteIota / byteiota.com Continue.dev Is Shutting Down. Export Your Data Before July 15.
Cursor acqui-hired the Continue.dev team in June. The hosted platform goes dark July 15, deleting all conversation history, configs, and team settings. The open-source repo stays up.
Continue.dev, the open-source AI coding assistant extension that worked across VS Code and JetBrains, is shutting down. If you have data on the hosted platform, July 15 is the deadline to export it before it’s deleted.
Cursor acqui-hired the Continue.dev team on June 16. The final release, v2.0.0, shipped June 19. The repo is now read-only. The code stays available under Apache 2.0, so nothing stops someone from forking it, but the maintainers have moved on.
After July 15, all data stored on Continue’s cloud platform is gone: conversation history, saved configurations, and team settings. The extension itself stops working for anything that required a server-side connection.
Continue had positioned itself as the open-source alternative to Copilot, a tab-completion and chat layer you could run against any model, self-hosted or otherwise. It ran on the BYOK model by default and gave users more control over which providers they connected. That positioning made it popular with teams who wanted flexibility without signing up for a hosted product.
The acquisition mostly benefits Cursor by bringing in the engineering team rather than the product. Cursor already has its own deeply integrated coding agent and inline edit tools. There’s no announcement of Continue’s features shipping inside Cursor.
For current Continue users, the practical path forward is one of the tools with similar BYOK flexibility: Zed with OpenAI-compatible providers, OpenCode, or Amp from Sourcegraph. JetBrains AI Assistant is also a reasonable landing spot if you’re on a JetBrains IDE, given it now has Claude Agent and Codex natively.
Source: ByteIota