Continue.dev
What it is: Continue.dev is an open-source, fully customizable AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains. It's the closest thing to "Cursor but in your existing editor with your own model" — and its YAML config makes it easy to build data-team-specific assistants.
Why it matters for data work
Most analysts live in VS Code with the SQLTools or dbt Power User extensions. Continue lets you add Claude or a local model to the same editor with custom context providers — point it at your dbt manifest, your migration history, or a notebook directory and it'll cite real files in completions.
Install & configure
code --install-extension Continue.continueEdit ~/.continue/config.yaml to add models, custom slash commands like /explain-sql, and context providers (codebase, terminal, problems, custom MCP servers).
Example usage
Wire up a context provider that includes your dbt manifest.json and a slash command /refactor-cte. Now you can highlight a query, hit the command, and Continue rewrites it as a clean CTE structure with the right model references.
Author & links
Author: Continue Dev, Inc.
Repo: github.com/continuedev/continue
License: Apache-2.0
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