Configuration

Continue can be deeply customized. User-level configuration is stored and can be edited in your home directory in config.json:

• ~/.continue/config.json (MacOS / Linux)
• %USERPROFILE%\.continue\config.json (Windows)

To open config.json, you can click the "gear" icon in the bottom right corner of the Continue Chat sidebar. When editing this file, you can see the available options suggested as you type, or check the reference below.

When you save config.json, Continue will automatically refresh to take into account your changes. config.json is automatically created the first time you use Continue. config.json is automatically generated if it doesn't exist.

In the vast majority of cases, you will only need to edit config.json. However, Continue offers two additional ways to customize configuration:

• .continuerc.json - Workspace-level configuration. If you'd like to scope certain settings to a particular workspace, you can add a .continuerc.json to the root of your project. This can be set to merge with or override the user-level config.json
• config.ts - Advanced configuration (probably unnecessary) - a TypeScript file in your home directory that can be used to programmatically modify (merged) the config.json schema:
  • ~/.continue/config.ts (MacOS / Linux)
  • %USERPROFILE%\.continue\config.ts (Windows)

config.json

See the full reference for config.json here.

.continuerc.json

The format of .continuerc.json is the same as config.json, plus one additional property mergeBehavior, which can be set to either "merge" or "overwrite". If set to "merge" (the default), .continuerc.json will be applied on top of config.json (arrays and objects are merged). If set to "overwrite", then every top-level property of .continuerc.json will overwrite that property from config.json.

Example

.continuerc.json

{
  "tabAutocompleteOptions": {
    "disable": true
  },
  "mergeBehavior": "overwrite"
}

config.ts

To programatically extend config.json, you can place a config.ts script in same directory as config.json and export a modifyConfig function, like:

config.ts

export function modifyConfig(config: Config): Config {
  config.slashCommands?.push({
    name: "commit",
    description: "Write a commit message",
    run: async function* (sdk) {
      // The getDiff function takes a boolean parameter that indicates whether
      // to include unstaged changes in the diff or not.
      const diff = await sdk.ide.getDiff(false); // Pass false to exclude unstaged changes
      for await (const message of sdk.llm.streamComplete(
        `${diff}\n\nWrite a commit message for the above changes. Use no more than 20 tokens to give a brief description in the imperative mood (e.g. 'Add feature' not 'Added feature'):`,
        new AbortController().signal,
        {
          maxTokens: 20,
        },
      )) {
        yield message;
      }
    },
  });
  return config;
}

This can be used for slash commands and custom context providers.