Continue.dev + Claude Max Ban: Fix in 60 Seconds

Continue.dev's Claude integration stopped working for Claude Max subscription users in January 2026. This is the fix. What Continue.dev is and why it broke Continue.dev is an open-source AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains. Unlike Cursor or Cline, Continue is free and fully configurable — you bring your own models. If you configured Continue to use Claude through your Claude Max subscription credentials, that path is now blocked. Anthropic's January 2026 enforcement restricted automated tool access through consumer subscription OAuth tokens. Continue.dev is actually one of the easiest tools to fix, because it was designed from the start to work with any provider via config. Fix: update your config.json Continue.dev stores its configuration in ~/.continue/config.json . You're changing one section. Before (broken): { "models" : [ { "title" : "Claude" , "provider" : "anthropic" , "model" : "claude-opus-4-6" , "apiKey" : "sk-ant-..." } ] } After (working — Option A, direct Anthro