--- title: A New Agentic Experience: JetBrains Air in IDEs – EAP... description: JetBrains opened an Early Access Program for Air, a new agentic development layer built into JetBrains IDEs, available as a plugin on JetBrains Marketplace or... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-new-agentic-experience-jetbrains-air-in-ides-eap-now-open-5yoc4osbi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A New Agentic Experience: JetBrains Air in IDEs – EAP Now Open | daily.dev og:description: JetBrains opened an Early Access Program for Air, a new agentic development layer built into JetBrains IDEs, available as a plugin on JetBrains Marketplace or... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-new-agentic-experience-jetbrains-air-in-ides-eap-now-open-5yoc4osbi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5yoc4OSbi.png og:image:alt: A New Agentic Experience: JetBrains Air in IDEs – EAP Now Open og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A New Agentic Experience: JetBrains Air in IDEs – EAP Now Open **[JetBrains](https://daily.dev/sources/jetbrains)** · 8 min read · 7 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary JetBrains opened an Early Access Program for Air, a new agentic development layer built into JetBrains IDEs, available as a plugin on JetBrains Marketplace or natively in 2026.3 EAP builds. Air is not an AI provider itself but a conduit that lets developers bring existing agents (Codex, GitHub Copilot, Junie, Cursor, Claude Agent, Gemini, and other ACP-compatible agents) directly into the IDE, running sessions in parallel with visibility into progress, cost, diffs, and worktrees. A free Junie Lite agent is offered to try the experience without a paid subscription. AI Assistant remains available as a separate plugin, and Air ships with no agents installed, sending no data anywhere until a user signs in to an agent or JetBrains AI plan. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is JetBrains Air and how is it different from AI Assistant? JetBrains Air is a new agentic development experience launched as an Early Access Program plugin for JetBrains IDEs, available via JetBrains Marketplace or natively in 2026.3 EAP builds. Unlike AI Assistant's chat-centric model, Air is built for orchestrating multiple agent sessions in parallel, with session tracking, diffs, cost visibility, and worktree isolation across projects. _Developers evaluating new JetBrains agentic tooling can track EAP rollouts and agent-workflow changes on daily.dev._ ### Which AI coding agents work with JetBrains Air? Air supports Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, Claude Agent, and Junie out of the box, plus any other agent compatible with the ACP protocol. Users can also use a Claude subscription directly in Air's terminal or full-screen tab, and a JetBrains AI subscription is optional rather than required to use third-party agents. _Developers choosing among competing coding agents can compare integration options and limits on daily.dev._ ### Does JetBrains Air send my code or data to JetBrains? No, Air is a tool window rather than an AI provider and ships with no agents installed, so nothing runs and no data leaves the machine until a user signs in to an agent or a JetBrains AI plan. With a third-party subscription, data goes directly to that provider under the existing agreement, not through JetBrains; JetBrains AI usage falls under existing JetBrains AI Terms of Service. _Teams weighing data-privacy tradeoffs of agentic IDE tools can follow coverage of these policies on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [JetBrains launches Air and Junie CLI for AI-assisted development](https://daily.dev/posts/jetbrains-launches-air-and-junie-cli-for-ai-assisted-development-ftgcpbnsa) · InfoWorld · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [The ReSharper 2026.2 Early Access Program Begins: Bringing More AI Agents into Visual Studio](https://daily.dev/posts/the-resharper-2026-2-early-access-program-begins-bringing-more-ai-agents-into-visual-studio-fxwmwigo4) · JetBrains · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [Our 2026 Direction: AI and Classic Workflows in JetBrains IDEs](https://daily.dev/posts/our-2026-direction-ai-and-classic-workflows-in-jetbrains-ides-rtcomvlpw) · JetBrains · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#jetbrains](https://daily.dev/tags/jetbrains) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/a-new-agentic-experience-jetbrains-air-in-ides-eap-now-open-5yoc4osbi) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"A New Agentic Experience: JetBrains Air in IDEs – EAP Now Open","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-new-agentic-experience-jetbrains-air-in-ides-eap-now-open-5yoc4osbi","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-new-agentic-experience-jetbrains-air-in-ides-eap-now-open-5yoc4osbi"},"datePublished":"2026-10-01T13:16:35.527Z","dateModified":"2026-10-01T21:39:04.873Z","description":"JetBrains opened an Early Access Program for Air, a new agentic development layer built into JetBrains IDEs, available as a plugin on JetBrains Marketplace or...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/8a781da1afcef81b2b682f4dc9c68088?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/8a781da1afcef81b2b682f4dc9c68088?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"JetBrains","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"JetBrains","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/53ecf0c676f34b3896ee109609d91efa","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/jetbrains"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-new-agentic-experience-jetbrains-air-in-ides-eap-now-open-5yoc4osbi","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":7},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"github,ai-coding,jetbrains","timeRequired":"PT8M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"JetBrains","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/jetbrains"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"A New Agentic Experience: JetBrains Air in IDEs – EAP Now Open"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-new-agentic-experience-jetbrains-air-in-ides-eap-now-open-5yoc4osbi#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is JetBrains Air and how is it different from AI Assistant?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"JetBrains Air is a new agentic development experience launched as an Early Access Program plugin for JetBrains IDEs, available via JetBrains Marketplace or natively in 2026.3 EAP builds. 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