Jetbrains IDE Setting for enabled workspaces

[RomneyDa]

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

VS Code has the ability enable/disable plugins per workspace, but jetbrains doesn't. Some projects can't have telemetry/AI used on them in various ways, some can.

Solution

Add an "Experimental workspace paths" IDE setting specific to Jetbrains (in the Jetbrains tools -> continue settings), a comma-separated list of strings and if the setting is present and the current project isn't found it just shuts down core on startup and maybe shows a big "Not enabled in this workspace" on GUI

See "osrEnabled" message for a similar jetbrains-specific IDE settings, should just work on the same vertical

[JonathanRohland-TNG]

@RomneyDa Thanks for taking this suggestion into your backlog!

As mentioned on Discord, our company maintains our own IntelliJ plugin and we have implemented a similar feature in this.
The settings UI for this looks like this:

When the user tries to send a request while in a disallowed project, we show a notification like this which takes them to the settings:

Without looking into the Continue sourcecode in detail yet, I'm hopeful that this could be ported with only minor adjustments necessary.

Would this be a viable solution for you if we can find some capacity to contribute?

[JonathanRohland-TNG]

@RomneyDa @tomasz-stefaniak what do you think of the suggestion above?
If we could get some resources to port our implementation of the project allowlist over to the Continue IntelliJ plugin, would this be a viable option for you?

I think that the UI could be carried over with little to no adjustments. We would only have to identify the starting points at which the check needs to hook into to trigger it at the right times.

[JonathanRohland-TNG]

@RomneyDa @tomasz-stefaniak do you have feedback on our suggestion above?
We are encouraging our developers to try Continue for AI-assisted coding and I have an opportunity to get somebody to work on this contribution back into the main codebase.

It would be nice to have an indication on whether you would consider merging this back into main before we start working on a PR.

[darenegade]

@JonathanRohland-TNG Is the TNG CodePilot open-source? If so, where can I find the code? I might have some time to port it into continue as we need that feature as well.

[JonathanRohland-TNG]

@darenegade No, it is an internal tool used only by our colleagues and not available as open-source, sorry!

[suryaff733]

Hi, I'd like to work on this issue. I've reproduced the problem and I'm currently looking into the validation flow. I believe the fix should be handled in . Please let me know if anyone is already working on this.