JetBrains Launches Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development
rseroter · x · 2026-09-22
JetBrains has unveiled JetBrains Air, consolidating six months of agentic development experiments into an open, coherent product system for developers, teams, and organizations.
Key points:
- Built on JetBrains Central, an open control and execution system for agent-driven development, now extended with Central CLI, shared context, cloud agents, automations, governance, and AI cost controls.
- Air is multi-surface and multi-service: each product solves a distinct problem but works better together, both inside and beyond JetBrains IDEs.
- After 26 years focused on the individual developer workbench, JetBrains is now building the wider system through which agentic work is initiated, executed, coordinated, reviewed, and governed.
- IDEs remain a priority: JetBrains is bringing the foundational agentic experience into its IDEs so developers can work with agents while understanding, changing, and verifying generated code.
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