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1

Install a host

A host is the machine that actually runs your agents. Pick the one you sit at — the Mac app, the Windows or Linux desktop app, or the CLI. All of them start their own local daemon; none of them needs another machine to work.
Download the signed and notarized DMG from mac.continuumcode.ai, drag Continuum.app to Applications, and launch it. The app lives in the menu bar and opens a full window. Updates arrive in-app via Sparkle — a quiet popover in the top-right, never a center-screen overlay.
Requires an Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later.
Every client is free — you pay only for the provider subscriptions you already have. Full per-platform requirements live in Installation.
2

Let it find your CLIs

Continuum discovers the provider CLIs already on your machine — claude, codex, agy (Antigravity), cursor-agent, grok, and opencode — and lights up a quota gauge for each under the Usage tab. No CLI, no gauge: you need at least one provider installed and logged in — or use Continuum’s own hosted models, which need no CLI at all.The two most common are a one-line install each:
Then sign in to each (claude, codex login). Missing a CLI? Settings → Providers runs the same install command for you, per provider.
3

Run your first session

Open the Code tab and click + on a repo. A floating New Session box opens over whatever you were looking at. Pick your model and effort, flip the one-click Worktree / Local chip, then type your prompt and send. Continuum spawns the agent — by default in an isolated git worktree, so it can’t touch your main checkout — gives the session a city name, streams the transcript, and tracks the plan, diff, and PR alongside it.
⌥-click + instead to quick-spawn instantly using the repo’s resolved defaults, skipping the box entirely.
Not sure which model to pick? Choose Auto at the top of the model picker and Continuum assigns a planner, an executor, and a cross-provider verifier from the providers you’ve connected. See Providers.From a terminal, the same thing is one command:
Want a guardrail? The composer carries a one-click Plan ↔ Code pill. Flip it to Plan and the agent must present a plan you approve before it touches code. See plan mode.
4

Sign in, so your devices find each other

Open Settings → Account and sign in with your email; the flow finishes in your browser. Do the same on your iPhone, Android phone, or at continuumcode.ai/app.Devices signed into the same account discover each other automatically — there is no QR code to scan. The first time a phone connects, approve it once from Settings → Devices on the host. Details in pairing.
You can start at this step instead of step 1. Install Continuum Console on your iPhone, sign in, and add a host afterwards — the phone’s onboarding walks you through it.
5

Leave your desk

When a plan is ready or a session finishes, your phone and Watch know. Approve a plan, send a follow-up, interrupt a run, or merge a PR from wherever you are — the session keeps running on the host either way.

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Where to next

The Code tab

Sessions, worktrees, the review pane, and everything the sidebar does.

Plan mode

Make the agent show its work before it writes any.

Analytics

$ / token by provider, day, and repo — parsed locally from your own logs.

Autopilot & safety

Per-repo trust, rate limits, and an audit log of every remote command.