JetBrains Air Governance, formerly JetBrains Central, becomes generally available

On October 22, 2026, JetBrains made Air Governance, formerly JetBrains Central, generally available: a console for managing AI agents, models and providers, setting credit limits and tracking cost and outcomes across vendors.

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On October 22, 2026, JetBrains made Air Governance, formerly known as JetBrains Central, generally available. It is a console for managing which AI agents, models and providers teams use, setting credit limits and tracking cost and outcomes across vendors, as described in a JetBrains blog post by Viktor Kiselev.

What Air Governance covers

It worked with Claude Agent, Codex, Gemini CLI, Junie and other ACP-compatible agents across IDEs, the CLI, web browsers and mobile.
Admins could set AI credit limits for users, teams and service accounts, and set up centralized BYOK with OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock or Google Vertex AI accounts.
MCP servers could be configured at company level, and AI policies combined approved providers, models, agents and credit limits.
Reporting covered AI costs by user, agent, model and provider, plus outcome metrics such as the split between human-authored and AI-generated code.
It was available to all organizations as part of the Business plan at USD 20 per month per developer with AI access; AI credits were a shared pool bought separately.

What it means for people building with AI

Engineering managers juggling several AI coding vendors could enforce budgets and approved agents from one console. JetBrains said its own AI spend grew roughly tenfold in the first half of 2026, and that Air Governance managed agentic usage for roughly 2,300 people at JetBrains each month.

Planned additions

JetBrains said it planned to add MCP propagation to third-party CLIs, GitHub Copilot support through Air Gateway, and credit limits and custom pricing for BYOK models.

Sources

Air Governance: Manage AI Agents, Access, and Spend Throughout Your Organization (JetBrains, October 22, 2026, official)

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