Continue PyPI Package

This package contains the Continue server and core classes needed to build your own recipes.

Continue is a Python library for automating repetitive sequences of software development tasks using language models. Using our VS Code extension, you can build, run, and refine these recipes as they natively interact with your codebase. Read the docs here or download the VS Code extension here.

Continue Server

The Continue server acts as a bridge between the Continue React app and your IDE, running your recipes and acting on the codebase.

Start it by running the following commands:

1. cd continuedev
2. Make sure packages are installed with poetry install
   • If poetry is not installed, you can install with

   curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -

   (official instructions here)
3. poetry shell to activate the virtual environment
4. cd ..
5. python3 -m continuedev.src.continuedev.server.main to start the server

Once you've validated that this works, you'll often want to use a debugger, in which case we've provided a launch configuration for VS Code in .vscode/launch.json. To start the debugger in VS Code, ensure that the workspace directory is the root of the continue repo, then press F5.

Note

To start the debugger, you'll have to select the poetry Python interpreter (/path-to-poetry-venv/bin/python3) in the bottom right of the VS Code window. If you don't see this, you may have to install the Python extension.

Scripts

poetry run typegen to generate JSONSchema .json files from the Pydantic types defined in the models directory.

poetry build will output wheel and tarball files in ./dist.

Writing Steps

See the src/continuedev/libs/steps folder for examples of writing a Continue step. See our documentation for tutorials.

How to contribute

Open a new GitHub Issue or comment on an existing one. Let us know what you would like to contribute, and we will help you make it happen!

For more a more detailed contributing guide, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Install from source

1. Clone this repo

Recommended: Run this command to use SSH

git clone [email protected]:continuedev/continue.git

Alternative: Run this command to use HTTPS

git clone https://github.com/continuedev/continue

2. Install Continue

Run this command to use the install script

cd continue/extension/scripts && python3 install_from_source.py

Important

Ensure you have a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed. Verify this by typing java -version in your command prompt or terminal. If a version number appears, you're set. If not, download and install a JRE from Oracle's website or through a package manager, for example Homebrew.

brew install openjdk@11

Understanding the codebase

• Continue Server README: learn about the core of Continue, which can be downloaded as a PyPI package
• VS Code Extension README: learn about the capabilities of our extension—the first implementation of Continue's IDE Protocol—which makes it possible to use use Continue in VS Code and GitHub Codespaces
• Continue GUI README: learn about the React app that lets users interact with the server and is placed adjacent to the text editor in any supported IDE
• Schema README: learn about the JSON Schema types generated from Pydantic models, which we use across the continuedev/ and extension/ directories
• Continue Docs README: learn how our docs are written and built
• How to debug the VS Code Extension README: learn how to set up the VS Code extension, so you can debug it