Continue CLI Guide: Async Cloud Agents for Developers (2026)
Continue CLI (cn) is a headless, model-agnostic AI coding agent that runs tasks asynchronously in the cloud or background — without blocking your terminal. Unlike interactive tools such as Cursor or GitHub Copilot Chat, cn executes entire workflows (PR reviews, code migrations, issue triage) as background jobs you can trigger from a shell, a GitHub Actions YAML, or a cron schedule. With 10M+ VS Code extension installs and a growing open-source CLI in Alpha as of 2026, Continue is positioning itself as the automation layer for AI-assisted development at team scale. ...