Continue.dev AI Code Assistant with Ollama

What is Continue.dev?

Continue is an open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs. It supports local models via Ollama, providing Copilot-like features without sending code to external servers.

Setting Up Ollama

# Install Ollama on your server
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh

# Pull code-optimized models
ollama pull codellama:13b
ollama pull deepseek-coder-v2:16b
ollama pull starcoder2:7b

# Ensure Ollama is accessible
# Edit /etc/systemd/system/ollama.service
# Set OLLAMA_HOST=0.0.0.0

Installing Continue

# Install Continue extension in VS Code
# Extensions > Search "Continue" > Install

# Or from command line:
code --install-extension Continue.continue

Configuring for Ollama

// ~/.continue/config.json
{
    "models": [
        {
            "title": "DeepSeek Coder",
            "provider": "ollama",
            "model": "deepseek-coder-v2:16b",
            "apiBase": "http://your-server:11434"
        }
    ],
    "tabAutocompleteModel": {
        "title": "StarCoder",
        "provider": "ollama",
        "model": "starcoder2:7b",
        "apiBase": "http://your-server:11434"
    }
}

Features

• Tab autocomplete (like Copilot)
• Chat with codebase context
• Code explanation and refactoring
• Documentation generation
• Multi-file editing with AI
• Custom slash commands
• 100% private with local models