AI can produce code. Organizations still have to produce software. Agentic development is changing how software gets made, but it hasn’t changed what it costs to be wrong.
Six months ago, we began publicly experimenting with agentic development environments. Around the same time, we introduced JetBrains Central as an open control and execution system for agent-driven development. We subsequently began rolling out JetBrains Central CLI, shared context, cloud agents, automations, governance, and AI cost controls for teams and organizations.
Today, we are bringing this work together as JetBrains Air: an open, coherent system of products for developers, teams, and organizations, inside and beyond JetBrains IDEs. It is multi-surface and multi-service. Each product solves a distinct problem, but the products work better together.
JetBrains Air marks a significant expansion in what JetBrains is building for. For 26 years, we have focused primarily on the individual developer workbench. Now, we are building for the wider system through which agentic work is initiated, executed, coordinated, reviewed, and governed.
The IDE remains important to JetBrains’ future. The era in which the whole software development system can be contained in one window is ending. As part of our continued investment, we are now bringing the foundational agentic experience into JetBrains IDEs, giving professional developers an environment where they can work effectively with agents while understanding, changing, and verifying the resulting code. JetBrains Air connects the wider system developing around it.
That system is based on a core belief that the future of agentic development will be multi-vendor. No single model, agent, or service will be right for every developer, team, or task.
From one product to an open system of products
JetBrains Air includes products that are available today alongside others that will be introduced as the system develops:
- Air in JetBrains IDEs – a complete agentic development experience for directing and orchestrating agents and verifying their work inside JetBrains IDEs.
- Air Teams – a new way to coordinate and automate software-delivery workflows involving developers and autonomous agents.
- Air Governance (formerly JetBrains Central) – organizational policy, visibility, auditability, cost management, and accountability for AI-assisted and agent-driven development.
Junie is JetBrains’ coding agent for professional software development. It will be supported across all Air surfaces.
The Agent Client Protocol (ACP) standardizes the connection between an IDE and an agent’s full harness, including its planning, logic, tools, model routing, and observability. Through the ACP Registry, developers can discover and run a growing range of compatible agents while continuing to work inside JetBrains IDEs.
Air Governance is designed to extend visibility and cost governance across providers and the different tools through which agentic work takes place. This means developers can choose the agent, model, or service suited to the task without forcing the organization to give up context, visibility, or control.
Key themes
- Individual adoption of agents has moved faster than organizational infrastructure.
- The bottleneck is shifting from producing change to understanding, verifying, and owning it.
- Multi-vendor support is a foundational design principle — organizations should not have to choose between best tools and visibility.
- JetBrains brings 26 years of deterministic code intelligence to make agentic work more reliable and cheaper.
- JetBrains Air will develop through a rolling series of releases, extending into mobile and remote experiences over time.