Continue is an open-source AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains. It supports chat, inline editing, autocomplete, and agentic workflows — all configurable against any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
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Continue is configured via ~/.continue/config.yaml. The easiest way to open it is from the Continue sidebar — click the gear icon, then Open Config.
Replace the contents with the following, substituting your API key:
name: Local Config
version: 1.0.0
schema: v1
models:
- name: UCSB Qwen3.8 27B
provider: openai
model: "qwen3.8-27b"
apiBase: "https://api.ai.college.ucsb.edu/v1"
apiKey: sk-YOURKEYHERE
capabilities:
- tool_use
roles:
- chat
- edit
- apply
- autocomplete
- name: UCSB Gemma 4 26B A4B
provider: openai
model: "gemma-4-26b-a4b-it"
apiBase: "https://api.ai.college.ucsb.edu/v1"
apiKey: sk-YOURKEYHERE
capabilities:
- tool_use
roles:
- chat
- edit
- apply
- autocomplete
- name: UCSB GPT-OSS 120B
provider: openai
model: "gpt-oss-120b"
apiBase: "https://api.ai.college.ucsb.edu/v1"
apiKey: sk-YOURKEYHERE
capabilities:
- tool_use
roles:
- chat
- edit
- apply
The config above assigns roles to each model:
Ctrl+I / Cmd+I)For each role, the first model listed with that role in the file is the default. You can switch the active chat model from the model picker in the Continue panel; otherwise Continue uses the first model with the chat role for chat, the first with edit for edits, and so on.
For example, to make qwen3.8-27b the default for autocomplete and gemma-4-26b-a4b-it the default for chat, edit, and apply:
models:
# ---- Autocomplete default ----
- name: UCSB Qwen3.8 27B
provider: openai
model: "qwen3.8-27b"
apiBase: "https://api.ai.college.ucsb.edu/v1"
apiKey: sk-YOURKEYHERE
capabilities: [tool_use]
roles: [autocomplete]
# ---- Chat / edit / apply default ----
- name: UCSB Gemma 4 26B A4B
provider: openai
model: "gemma-4-26b-a4b-it"
apiBase: "https://api.ai.college.ucsb.edu/v1"
apiKey: sk-YOURKEYHERE
capabilities: [tool_use]
roles: [chat, edit, apply, autocomplete] # autocomplete listed here too,
# but the first autocomplete entry
# (Qwen3.8 27B) is the default.
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