Continue

Integrate Intutic governance with Continue — the open-source autopilot for VS Code and JetBrains.

How it works

With intutic gates install --route, Intutic points Continue's OpenAI and Anthropic models at the proxy by setting their apiBase in ~/.continue/config.yaml. It always writes your SOPs to .continue/rules/intutic-governance.md, a rule with alwaysApply: true that Continue adds to every request. Everything else in your config — other models, context providers, comments — is kept.

Setup

1. Initialize Intutic

intutic init

The CLI detects Continue and registers it as a harness:

  ✔ continue → /path/to/project/.continue/rules/intutic-governance.md

intutic init only detects the harness and records it in ~/.intutic/config.json; it writes no harness files. The files described on this page are written by intutic gates install (open core, no control plane), from the rule sets in .intutic/sops/ — see What writes harness files:

intutic gates install

2. Start the proxy

intutic start

3. Route Continue through the proxy

intutic gates install --route

--route also writes the apiBase settings below; the proxy must be running.

What gets written

• ~/.continue/config.yaml (with --route): apiBase: http://localhost:4000/v1/ on each model whose provider is openai or anthropic. Models from other providers (Ollama, Gemini, …) are left alone — the proxy does not serve their APIs. A config with no such model, or one that does not parse, is left untouched and reported. Intutic does not set apiKey; keep your own.
• .continue/rules/intutic-governance.md: your SOP text, with alwaysApply: true front matter, written when at least one SOP targets Continue. The IDE extension reads the .continue/rules/ of the workspace root; the cn CLI reads the .continue/rules/ of the directory it runs in, so run cn from the workspace root. The file is Intutic's own; keep your own rules in other files there. See Where rule sets go.

To undo what intutic gates install writes here, run intutic disconnect --harness continue: each file goes back to what it held before Intutic first wrote it, or is deleted if Intutic created it, and edits you made since are kept. See intutic disconnect.

No pre-tool gate

Continue has no tool-call hook Intutic can use. The IDE extension has no hook system. The CLI (cn) loads PreToolUse hooks from its settings files but never runs them: nothing in it calls firePreToolUse (continuedev/continue main at 5522c6f), and the pull request that would have wired it in was closed unmerged. So Continue is governed by the proxy, which sees every request its OpenAI and Anthropic models make, and by the rules file above. Earlier Intutic versions registered a gate in .continue/settings.json that cn never ran; intutic disconnect --harness continue removes it.