{"slug": "continue-ide-development-archived-as-project-acquired-by-cursor", "title": "Continue IDE development archived as project acquired by Cursor", "summary": "The open-source Continue IDE for VSCode, which offered offline AI-assisted coding via Ollama, has been formally archived and marked read-only after being acquired by Cursor, according to a Hacker News thread. The consolidation removes an independent option for local AI coding and folds its capabilities into Cursor's development.", "body_md": "# Continue IDE development archived as project acquired by Cursor\n\nAccording to a Hacker News thread, the open-source Continue IDE for VSCode with offline Ollama support was formally archived and marked read-only, with the project acquired by Cursor. The consolidation removes an independent option for local AI-assisted coding and brings its capabilities under Cursor's development.\n\n## Topics\n\n## Sources\n\n- Social\n[HN thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398366)\n\n## Go deeper\n\nThis intelligence is sourced automatically from public sources across the web and synthesised by the Prefactor AI pipeline. Stories are reviewed before publication.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/continue-ide-development-archived-as-project-acquired-by-cursor", "canonical_source": "https://www.getreadyforagents.com/news/continue-ide-acquisition-cursor/", "published_at": "2026-08-22 20:05:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-22 20:13:13.182929+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Continue", "VSCode", "Ollama", "Cursor", "Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/continue-ide-development-archived-as-project-acquired-by-cursor", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/continue-ide-development-archived-as-project-acquired-by-cursor.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/continue-ide-development-archived-as-project-acquired-by-cursor.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/continue-ide-development-archived-as-project-acquired-by-cursor.jsonld"}}