continuedev / continuedev/continue
Support configurable thinking output formats
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@sestinj is already working on this.
Since Jun 4, 2025.
area:configuration
good-first-issue
kind:enhancement
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Description
Validations
- I believe this is a way to improve. I'll try to join the Continue Discord for questions
- I'm not able to find an open issue that requests the same enhancement
Problem
Some LLM providers like vLLM let you change the output format of thinking. Right now Continue expects only the standard format from OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. but doesn't have a way of supporting arbitrary thinking tag formats.
For reference: https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/features/reasoning_outputs.html#streaming-chat-completions
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