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open-source coding agent. continue is open source, written primarily in TypeScript, released under Apache License 2.0. Its repository has 35.2K GitHub stars and 5.1K forks, and was last committed to within the last two weeks. Niched places it in AI coding assistants & agents.
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Persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents and long-running tasks. Crash-proof markdown plans, session recovery after /clear and compaction, per-turn re-injection against context rot, deterministic completion gate. Manus-style. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Kiro, OpenCode and 60+ agents via the Agent Skills standard.
Visit ↗| Fact | continue | planning-with-files |
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| GitHub stars | 35.2K | 25.9K |
| Forks | 5.2K | 2.2K |
| Open issues | 950 | 7 |
| Last commit | yesterday | 8 days ago |
| Primary language | TypeScript | Python |
| License | Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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