examples/continue/README.md

Continue

This document presents an example of integration with continuedev/continue.

For a live demonstration, please click on the link below:

• How it works (Video demonstration)

Integration Setup Walkthrough

1. As outlined in continue's documentation, install the Visual Studio Code extension from the marketplace and open it.

2. In this example, LocalAI will download the gpt4all model and set it up as "gpt-3.5-turbo". Refer to the docker-compose.yaml file for details.

   # Clone LocalAI
   git clone https://github.com/go-skynet/LocalAI
   
   cd LocalAI/examples/continue
   
   # Start with docker-compose
   docker-compose up --build -d
   

3. Type /config within Continue's VSCode extension, or edit the file located at ~/.continue/config.py on your system with the following configuration:

   from continuedev.src.continuedev.libs.llm.openai import OpenAI
   
   config = ContinueConfig(
      ...
      models=Models(
           default=OpenAI(
              api_key="my-api-key",
              model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
              api_base="http://localhost:8080",
           )
      ),
   )
   

This setup enables you to make queries directly to your model running in the Docker container. Note that the api_key does not need to be properly set up; it is included here as a placeholder.

If editing the configuration seems confusing, you may copy and paste the provided default config.py file over the existing one in ~/.continue/config.py after initializing the extension in the VSCode IDE.

Additional Resources

• Official Continue documentation
• Documentation page on using self-hosted models
• Official extension link