# Continue

> Continue is a community-maintained IDE extension from Continue. Anomity scores its risk at 75 out of 100 (high). It matches 1 dangerous capability combination.

- **Canonical URL:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/extension/continue
- **Kind:** IDE extension
- **Publisher:** Continue
- **Trust level:** community
- **Risk score:** 75/100 (high)
- **Website:** https://continue.dev
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-02
- **JSON:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/api/entries/extension/continue

## Description

Continue is an open-source IDE extension that brings autocomplete, chat, and inline edits to VS Code and JetBrains using any LLM provider or local model. It's distributed on the VS Code Marketplace and JetBrains Marketplace, with the core engine published under an Apache 2.0 license, so teams can self-host the model layer and audit what the extension does on disk.

Its declared capabilities include reading files in the open workspace and across configured context providers, writing edits back into source files when the user accepts a suggestion, making outbound network requests to the configured model and embedding providers, and accessing credentials stored in the IDE secret store. Continue does not request shell execution by default, which gives it a notably smaller blast radius than the fully-agentic extensions in the same category.

From a risk standpoint, the extension is community-maintained and pairs filesystem write with credentials access — enough to match the credential-theft dangerous combination — but lacks the shell-execute capability that would push it into exfiltration territory. Teams adopting Continue should restrict its model providers to vetted endpoints and avoid pointing it at credentials that are not scoped to the developer's workstation.

## Why it scored 75

The score starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50 and moves only through the signals below. The formula is published at https://catalog.anomity.ai/about — there is no model and no hidden heuristic.

| Signal | Contribution | Severity | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Established community project | -10 | trust offset |  |
| 2 high-risk capabilities: filesystem:write, credentials:access | +20 | critical |  |
| Credential theft risk (high) | +15 | high | Filesystem write combined with credentials access can plant persistent credential stealers. |

Clamped result: **75/100**, band **high**.

## Capabilities

| Capability | Name | Security implication |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `filesystem:read` | Filesystem read | Can read files on the host system. Used for context, indexing, or analysis. |
| `filesystem:write` | Filesystem write | Can create, edit, or delete files on the host system. High-impact capability — anything from helpful edits to planting persistence. |
| `network:outbound` | Outbound network | Can make outbound network requests. Required for hosted model providers and remote APIs; also the path for data exfiltration if combined with read access. |
| `credentials:access` | Credentials access | Reads provider API keys, OAuth tokens, or other secrets from the host keychain or environment. |

## Dangerous combinations matched

### Credential theft risk (high)

Filesystem write combined with credentials access can plant persistent credential stealers.

Capabilities: `filesystem:write`, `credentials:access`

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Source: Anomity Catalog (https://catalog.anomity.ai/). Scoring methodology: https://catalog.anomity.ai/about. Machine-readable index: https://catalog.anomity.ai/llms.txt · https://catalog.anomity.ai/openapi.json