~/distillery setup → continue

Overview

Continue.dev is an open-source coding assistant for VSCode and JetBrains. It uses a raw `fetch` client (no Anthropic SDK) with a configurable `apiBase` per model. Setting `apiBase` in `~/.continue/config.json` routes Continue's Claude traffic through The Distillery.

Important: Continue appends `messages` (not `/v1/messages`) to `apiBase` to form the full request URL. The `apiBase` value MUST end in `/v1/`, trailing slash required. If you set it to `http://localhost:3080`, requests will hit `/messages` instead of `/v1/messages` and fail.

Prerequisites

You have The Distillery installed and running locally on port 3080. Continue.dev 0.9 or newer is required.

Open `~/.continue/config.json` and add the `apiBase` field to your Anthropic model entry. The value MUST be `http://localhost:3080/v1/` with the trailing `/v1/`; without it, Continue will form an incorrect URL.

{
  "models": [{
    "provider": "anthropic",
    "model": "claude-sonnet-4-5",
    "apiBase": "http://localhost:3080/v1/"
  }]
}

~/.continue/config.json

%USERPROFILE%\.continue\config.json