JetBrains unveils JetBrains Air, a multi-vendor system of products for agentic development

On September 22, 2026, JetBrains unveiled JetBrains Air, a system of products for agentic development that spans Air in JetBrains IDEs, Air Teams and Air Governance, formerly JetBrains Central.

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On September 22, 2026, JetBrains unveiled JetBrains Air in a post by Kirill Skrygan, JetBrains Air: Building a System of Products for Agentic Software Development. JetBrains brought its agent work together as a system of products built on the Agent Client Protocol, so that third-party agents could run alongside its own Junie agent.

What JetBrains announced

Air spanned three parts: Air in JetBrains IDEs, Air Teams and Air Governance, formerly JetBrains Central.
JetBrains described Air as combining JetBrains Central, the Central CLI, shared context, cloud agents, automations, governance and AI cost controls into an open, coherent system of products.
Junie, JetBrains' coding agent, was to be supported across all Air surfaces.
Air used the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) and the ACP Registry so developers could discover and run compatible agents inside JetBrains IDEs.
JetBrains stated a core belief that agentic development would be multi-vendor.
JetBrains said it had focused primarily on the individual developer workbench for 26 years, and that it began publicly experimenting with agentic development environments six months before the post, when it also introduced JetBrains Central.

What it means for people who build with AI

For JetBrains IDE users, Air offered an agent layer that worked with Codex, Copilot, Claude and other agents, not only JetBrains' own. The announcement reflected JetBrains' stated view that agentic development would be multi-vendor: Junie was to be supported across all Air surfaces, while ACP let third-party agents run alongside it inside JetBrains IDEs.

Sources

JetBrains Air: Building a System of Products for Agentic Software Development (JetBrains, September 22, 2026, official)

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