Context Management

Continue is an open-source coding autopilot for VS Code that replaces manual ChatGPT copy-pasting with an integrated LLM assistant. It emphasizes transparency, hackability, and user control by supporting any LLM (local or cloud), collecting development data locally, and offering extensive customization through slash commands, context sources, and policies. The platform enables developers to maintain privacy while leveraging AI assistance and automatically gather data to improve their own LLM models.

Forge is an open-source reliability layer for self-hosted LLM tool-calling that dramatically improves agentic task performance on consumer hardware. It uses domain-agnostic guardrails (retry nudges, step enforcement, error recovery, VRAM management) to boost an 8B model from 53% to 99% accuracy on multi-step workflows without model changes. The framework addresses the compounding failure problem in local models—90% per-step accuracy yields only 59% success on 5-step tasks—and peer-reviewed results show an 8B model with Forge (99.3%) outperforming Claude Sonnet without guardrails (87.2%).