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Continue is an open-source coding agent for developers, shipped as a VS Code extension, a JetBrains plugin and a command-line tool. MCP tools work only in its agent mode. Servers are declared under mcpServers in the config file or as YAML or JSON files in a .continue/mcpServers folder, over stdio, SSE or Streamable HTTP. The repository is now read-only after Cursor acquired the company.
Facts
How to add a server to Continue
- Find the server you want on plug.directory and open its page.
- In its install block, pick Continue. The block shows the config and where it goes.
- Put the config in ~/.continue/config.yaml. Then check the server's tools in Continue, as its docs describe.
For example, Azure MCP Server, one of the top ranked servers that work in Continue, goes in ~/.continue/config.yaml:
mcpServers:
- name: "azure"
type: stdio
command: "npx"
args:
- "-y"
- "@azure/[email protected]"
- "server"
- "start" How to add an MCP server to Continue: local and remote
Matches the official docs The config follows Continue's MCP docs, read on 2026-10-31.
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- EduBase EduBase MCP server
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- Stripe MCP server integrating with Stripe - tools for customers, products, payments, and more.
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Facts read from Continue Dev, Inc.'s own pages on 2026-10-31; the description is ours, from its site. Every client