What are Continue's core advantages over Copilot?

Fully open-source (Apache 2.0) and free, supports any LLM (including local Ollama models), code processed locally for privacy, highly customizable (custom prompts and Slash commands).

How does the @context reference system work?

@file references files, @directory references directories, @codebase searches entire codebase via embeddings, @docs references documentation, @terminal references terminal output, @git references commit history.

Recommended models for local use?

DeepSeek Coder V2 33B for chat analysis + StarCoder2 3B for fast completion. Run via Ollama or llama.cpp, fully offline.

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Sources

GitHub
Medium