Introducing Tasks and Workflows: Automate Your Developer Work in Two Clicks

Today, we're launching Tasks and Workflows in Continue Mission Control. If you've been using Continue in your IDE, you know how AI can help you write code faster. Now, we're taking that same power and extending it to all the repetitive work that happens around your code.

Draft changelog updates every week? Two clicks. Security reviews after every PR? Two clicks. Test coverage improvements daily? Two clicks.

You don't need to write scripts. You don't need to configure CI/CD pipelines. You don't need to remember to do the work. You just set it up once, and it happens automatically.

What You Can Do Today

We're launching with ready-to-use workflow templates that solve common problems:

Each template is pre-configured with the right agent, tools, and triggers. You just connect it to your repository.

Setting Up a Workflow Takes Two Clicks

Here's how simple it is:

1. Go to Mission Control and browse the workflow templates
2. Click "Use this Workflow"
3. Connect your repository
4. Done

The workflow is live. It will run on schedule or trigger when the specified event happens. You'll see results in your inbox, review the changes, and merge when ready.

Just pick what you want automated and connect it to your code.

Need Something Custom? Build Your Own

The templates get you started fast, but you can also build workflows from scratch. When you create a custom workflow, you have full control:

Choose Your Trigger

• Cron - Run on a schedule (daily, weekly, hourly, or custom intervals)
• Webhook - Respond to events from GitHub, Sentry, Snyk, or any system that can send HTTP requests

Then configure the details

• Select an agent
• Pick a branch or repo
• Add secret headers
• Pass contextual payloads
• Define schedules or accept presets

No scripting. No infrastructure. Pure configuration.

Tasks: For the One-Off Work

Not everything needs automation. Sometimes you just want something done right now.

Tasks let you:

• Run an agent with a prompt
• Target a repo or branch
• Get a summary, diff, and full logs
• Decide whether the output should become a workflow later

Use Tasks when you're testing an idea, handling a one-time request, or validating if something should become a workflow.

How It Works Under the Hood

When a workflow triggers, here's what happens:

1. The agent analyzes your repository and branch
2. It executes the task using the tools and rules you've configured
3. It generates changes and creates a detailed session log
4. Results show up in your Mission Control inbox

You see three things for every workflow run:

Summary - What the agent did and why it made specific decisions
Diff - Files modified, lines changed, side-by-side comparison
Logs - Complete record of tool calls, reasoning, and any errors

Everything is reviewable before it goes live. You're in control.

Why This Matters

If you're using Continue in your IDE, you already know how AI can help you write code faster. Tasks and Workflows extend that same capability to everything else.

We're removing the friction from developer work. The repetitive tasks that have to happen but don't require creativity or judgment. The maintenance work that keeps getting deprioritized.

AI amplifies intent. If your intention is to maintain higher standards, AI helps you maintain those standards consistently. Tasks and Workflows are tools that make that possible.

Get Started Today

Tasks and Workflows are live in Mission Control right now.

Browse the templates → pick one that solves something painful → connect your repo → and watch the work you’ve been putting off happen.

Spend more time building. Spend less time maintaining. Let Continue handle the work around your work.

Try Tasks and Workflows →

The goal is simple: spend more time building and less time maintaining. Tasks and Workflows get you there.