Continue CLI

Continue is an open-source, provider-agnostic coding agent CLI. Designed for headless environments and containers (Apache 2.0).

Setup

[ai.harness.continue]
enabled = true
install = true

Run aibox apply, then inside the container:

cn          # Interactive mode
cn -p "..."  # Headless/non-interactive mode (great for scripts and CI)

Note: the binary is cn, not continue.

API Key

Continue is provider-agnostic — configure the LLM you want to use:

[container.environment]
CONTINUE_API_KEY = "..."   # Generic key for headless use
# Or provider-specific:
# ANTHROPIC_API_KEY = "sk-ant-..."
# OPENAI_API_KEY = "sk-..."

Configuration

Continue's configuration is persisted in .aibox-home/.continue/, mounted at /home/aibox/.continue/.

MCP Integration

Continue has a native MCP client with a per-server file model. aibox generates files in .continue/mcpServers/ (one file per server) automatically on aibox apply, merging processkit built-in servers, team servers from aibox.toml [ai.mcp], and personal servers from .aibox-local.toml [mcp].

.continue/mcpServers/ is gitignored — it is regenerated on every aibox apply and must not be committed.

To add MCP servers:

# aibox.toml — team-shared servers
[[mcp.servers]]
name    = "github"
command = "npx"
args    = ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-github"]

# .aibox-local.toml — personal servers
[[mcp.servers]]
name    = "my-internal-tool"
command = "npx"
args    = ["-y", "@acme/internal-mcp-server"]

Installation

Continue CLI is installed via npm (npm install -g @continuedev/cli).