How to Connect LM Studio Models to VS Code | Full Guide (2026)

Today, I’m going to show you how to take your local coding setup to the next level. We all love AI coding assistants, but sometimes you want total privacy, no subscriptions, and the ability to work offline. In this video, we are connecting LM Studio—running locally on your machine—directly into VS Code using the Continue extension. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a professional-grade AI agent that lives right in your editor. Let’s dive in. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏷️ LM Studio Download: https://lmstudio.ai/ 💻 VS Code Download: https://code.visualstudio.com/download ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: The content provided in this video is for educational and informational purposes only. While I strive to provide accurate and up-to-date information, technology changes rapidly. All the steps and methods, I have shown from official documentations and used for teaching purpose only. Please ensure you are following the latest documentation and best practices. Use of the code or techniques shown is at your own risk. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 Got questions or ideas? Drop them in the ❤️ Comment Box ❤️ below — I read every one! 📧 Copyright matters: [email protected] 🔍 Search me on Google ► Md Al Mamun ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏷️ Related Tags: #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AITools #LLM #OpenSourceAI #LocalAI #Claude #ClaudeAI #Cursor #CursorAI #LMStudio #Ollama #OpenRouter #AIModels #AITutorial #FreeeAI #AIForDevelopers #MdAlMamun