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Version: 1.23

Coding assistants

You can use Privatemode with the AI coding assistants in your IDE such as Cline or Continue to provide secure and privacy-preserving agentic coding capabilities or tab completions.

Continue offers code completions, chat, and code editing capabilities. To set up Continue with Privatemode, first ensure the privatemode-proxy is set up as explained in the quickstart guide. Continue works best with prompt caching enabled.

Then, install the Continue extension for Visual Studio Code.

Once the extension is installed, edit ~/.continue/config.yaml, and add the following entry to the models key:

  - name: Privatemode QwenCoder 14B
    provider: vllm
    model: qwen/qwen2.5-coder-14b-instruct-awq
    apiKey: dummy
    apiBase: http://localhost:8080/v1
    defaultCompletionOptions:
      maxTokens: 20
    roles:
      - autocomplete
      - chat
      - edit
      - apply

You can find more information on Continue's configuration format in the official documentation.

Now you can select the "Privatemode QwenCoder 14B" model in the model selector of the extension, using Continue's code completions and its agentic chat with the Privatemode AI backend:

Continue Visual Studio Code extension model selector