Fred BriconEngineer, Granite.Code contributorRed Hat
Red Hat and IBM extension. Downstream fork of Continue. IBM Granite models on Ollama.
GitHub (Granite-Code/granite-code), published Read the repository notice (opens GitHub (Granite-Code/granite-code) in a new tab)
Observation
Red Hat and IBM shipped Granite.Code on a fork of Continue, then retired the fork and sent their fixes upstream.
- Takeaway
- Red Hat could fold its fork back because Continue was still maintained. Continue has been read-only since June 2026, so a team that forks it now carries every fix alone. Cost that work before you choose a fork over a move.
- What happened
- Red Hat and IBM built Granite.Code, a VS Code extension, from a downstream fork of Continue. The fork added a setup wizard that installs Ollama and a Granite model, picked Granite models automatically, and changed the branding. At build time a script renamed every continue.* identifier to granite.* so both extensions could sit side by side. On October 31, 2025 the team deprecated Granite.Code in favor of Continue and archived the repository. Two Red Hat engineers, Fred Bricon and Owen Taylor, had 43 pull requests merged into Continue between November 2024 and October 2025, many of them Ollama and Granite fixes.
- Public organization write-up (GitHub repository notice)
- Upstream pull requests counted from GitHub
Deployment details
Red Hat and IBM extension. Downstream fork of Continue. IBM Granite models on Ollama.
- Public organization write-up (GitHub repository notice)
- Upstream pull requests counted from GitHub
- Team
- Red Hat and IBM, Granite.Code project
- Duration
- Repository created December 12, 2024; extension deprecated October 31, 2025
- Workload
- A packaged local code assistant for VS Code
- Product version
- Downstream fork of Continue (Granite-Code/continue-for-granite)
- Model
- IBM Granite models served by Ollama
- Measurement
- 43 pull requests merged into continuedev/continue by two Red Hat engineers, counted by GILD on GitHub on October 12, 2026