Mercury Coder next-edit suggestion doesn't work

[menonsamir]

In this blog post, the instructions to set up Mercury autocomplete are:

Next Edit is rolling out now to all Continue users on Models Add-On. To get started:

1. Update to the latest Continue extension in VS Code or JetBrains
2. Next Edit will automatically activate when the Mercury model is available
3. Navigate to any code you want to edit—suggestions will appear inline
4. Accept edits with Tab, or cycle through alternatives with Alt+]

I signed up for the paid plan, created an agent (I didn't really want to create an agent; I just want autocomplete), changed the autocomplete mode for the agent to Mercury Coder, switched to the agent, and then got no suggestions. I see "Continue (NE)" in the bottom right, so I know it's trying to so suggestions. I tried both the stable and pre-release versions of the extension. The error in the console for each suggestions is:

Error
HTTP 400 Bad Request from https://api.continue.dev/model-proxy/v1/chat/completions {"error":"The block inception/mercury-coder can only be used with the model inception/mercury-coder"}

What am I doing wrong?

There's also a different doc page (https://docs.continue.dev/features/autocomplete/next-edit) that says I need "Continue development team access". What is that? I can't find any reference to it in the docs.

[Patrick-Erichsen]

A fix is on the way for this, should be out shortly. Apologies!

Also opened a PR to clean up the docs: #7946

"Continue development team access" is not relevant anymore.

I didn't really want to create an agent; I just want autocomplete

This is helpful feedback, we are shipping an "Add to account" feature soon that allows you to have account level models, rules, and MCP servers. With that in place we could make creating an agent an optional step.