Models in Continue can be configured to be used for various roles in the extension.
  • chat: Used for chat conversations in the extension sidebar
  • autocomplete: Used for autocomplete code suggestions in the editor
  • edit: Used to generate code based on edit prompts
  • apply: Used to decide how to apply edits to a file
  • embed: Used to generate embeddings used for vector search (@Codebase and @Docs context providers)
  • rerank: Used to rerank results from vector search
These roles can be specified for a config.yaml model block using roles. See the YAML Specification for more details.

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Selecting model roles

You can control which of the models in your assistant for a given role will be currently used for that role. Above the main input, click the 3 dots and then the cube icon to expand the Models section. Then you can use the dropdowns to select an active model for each role. Settings Active Models Section
roles are not explicitly defined within config.json (deprecated) - they are infered by the top level keys like embeddingsProvider