Backfill issue -357 — The AI Toolchain

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Continue

@continuedev/[email protected] NOTES

Continue 1.10.0 adds --prompt flag, env config section, Novita tool support, /info slash command, and resource monitoring.

└──▷ GET THIS VERSION

$ git clone --branch @continuedev/[email protected] https://github.com/continuedev/continue.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout @continuedev/[email protected]

└──▷ TRY IT

Run Continue non-interactively from CI or a script by supplying the prompt directly on the command line.

$ continue --prompt 'Review the auth module for hardcoded credentials and summarize findings'

Declare API keys or other secrets in the Continue config file instead of pre-setting them in the shell environment.

yaml

env:
  OPENAI_API_KEY: sk-...
  ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: sk-ant-...

›Adds --prompt flag to the CLI for passing a prompt directly at invocation.
›Adds env section support in config.yaml, allowing environment variables to be declared in the config file.
›Adds tool support for Novita provider models, enabling agentic tool calls through Novita-hosted LLMs.
›Adds /info slash command to the interactive interface.
›Adds resource monitoring capability to track system resource usage.

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›Updates agent and plan mode system prompts to include apply-formatting instructions for more consistent edits.

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KoboldCpp

v1.98.1 NOTES

KoboldCpp v1.98.1 adds TTS.cpp-powered text-to-speech (Kokoro, Parler, Dia), new SD flags, and --overridenativecontext.

└──▷ GET THIS VERSION

$ git clone --branch v1.98.1 https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v1.98.1

└──▷ TRY IT

Enable q8 quantization for image generation with flash attention for improved quality on supported hardware.

$ koboldcpp --model my-llm.gguf --sdmodel my-sd-model.gguf --sdquant 2 --sdflashattention

Override a model's trained context length to control automatic RoPE scaling when the model metadata is incorrect.

$ koboldcpp --model my-llm.gguf --overridenativecontext 4096

›Adds --sdflashattention and --sdconvdirect flags to toggle flash attention and conv2d independently for image generation.
›Extends --sdquant to accept a parameter [0/1/2] for three quantization levels (adds q8 support alongside existing q4) for image generation models.
›Adds --overridenativecontext flag to override a model's expected trained context when computing automatic RoPE scaling.
›Adds --embeddingsmaxctx flag to override the default embedding model max context (which now defaults to the lower of current model max context and trained context).
›Adds 4096 as a valid value for --blasbatchsize.

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›Adds an alias for --tensorsplit.
›Integrates TTS.cpp into KoboldCpp, supporting three new Text-To-Speech models — Kokoro (Q4 GGUF, ~2x realtime), Parler (Q5 GGUF, ~0.5x realtime), and Dia (Q5 GGUF, ~0.1x realtime) — loaded via the 'Audio' tab; WavTokenizer is not required.
›Kokoro TTS supports 28 named speaker voices including af_alloy, af_bella, af_heart, am_adam, am_michael, bf_emma, bm_george, and others for English speech.
›Adds Seed-OSS model support with instruct templates for thinking and non-thinking modes.
›Termux android_install.sh script can now launch existing downloaded models.
›KoboldAI Lite scenario picker can now load any adventure or chat scenario in Instruct mode.
›KoboldAI Lite adds a setting to embed generated TTS audio into the context as part of the AI's turn.
›KoboldAI Lite adds Vision and Auditory support indicators for inline multimodal media content.
›KoboldAI Lite adds Seed-OSS instruct templates (thinking regex must be set manually by changing the think tag).
›KoboldAI Lite overhauls the narration and media adding system, allowing TTS to be manually added with 'Add File'.

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The AI Toolchain · curated daily · August 24, 2025
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The AI Toolchain — issue -357, August 24, 2025

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