--- title: “One of the most significant steps in our 26-year... description: JetBrains unveiled JetBrains Air, an umbrella system for agentic software development that consolidates several 2026 AI initiatives: an in-IDE agent... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/one-of-the-most-significant-steps-in-our-26-year-history-jetbrains-goes-big-on-agentic-developmen-czqewabby twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: “One of the most significant steps in our 26-year history”: JetBrains goes big on agentic development — and bets the IDE still matters | daily.dev og:description: JetBrains unveiled JetBrains Air, an umbrella system for agentic software development that consolidates several 2026 AI initiatives: an in-IDE agent... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/one-of-the-most-significant-steps-in-our-26-year-history-jetbrains-goes-big-on-agentic-developmen-czqewabby og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CZQEWAbBy.png og:image:alt: “One of the most significant steps in our 26-year history”: JetBrains goes big on agentic development — and bets the IDE still matters 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. # “One of the most significant steps in our 26-year history”: JetBrains goes big on agentic development — and bets the IDE still matters **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 6 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary JetBrains unveiled JetBrains Air, an umbrella system for agentic software development that consolidates several 2026 AI initiatives: an in-IDE agent supervision layer, Air Teams for cloud-based collaboration between developers and agents, and Air Governance (formerly JetBrains Central) for organization-wide policy, permissions, and cost controls. CEO Kirill Skrygan called it one of the company's most significant steps in its 26-year history. Air works inside JetBrains IDEs, via browser, and through the command line via Air Gateway, supporting third-party agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI alongside JetBrains' own Junie. The company maintains that IDEs remain central for reviewing and verifying AI-generated code even as agentic work spreads across more surfaces, including a planned mobile extension. ## 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 what does it include? JetBrains Air is an open system of products for agentic software development, formally unveiled by CEO Kirill Skrygan. It has three parts: Air in JetBrains IDEs for directing and reviewing agent work, Air Teams for coordinating developers and agents in shared cloud environments, and Air Governance (renamed from JetBrains Central) for managing policy, permissions, spending limits, and AI usage tracking across an organization. _daily.dev helps teams weighing agentic dev platforms like JetBrains Air track how the tooling evolves._ ### Which coding agents can I use inside JetBrains Air? JetBrains Air supports running Claude Agent, Codex, Gemini CLI, and JetBrains' own Junie side by side, either inside JetBrains IDEs, through a browser, or from the command line via Air Gateway, which brings terminal agents like Claude Code and Codex into the Air environment. It remains available as a standalone desktop app on macOS, Windows, and Linux. _developers picking between coding agents can follow platform updates like this on daily.dev._ ### Is JetBrains still investing in the IDE despite the shift to AI agents? Yes, JetBrains CEO Kirill Skrygan has stated that IDEs will continue to be where professional developers work with agents, understand and verify code, and make decisions about what ships, with JetBrains Air extending that control across the broader agentic development system rather than replacing the IDE. _daily.dev keeps developers weighing the IDE's future against agent-first workflows in the loop._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [New JetBrains platform manages AI coding agents](https://daily.dev/posts/new-jetbrains-platform-manages-ai-coding-agents-q3l3yhywe) · InfoWorld · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#jetbrains](https://daily.dev/tags/jetbrains) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/one-of-the-most-significant-steps-in-our-26-year-history-jetbrains-goes-big-on-agentic-developmen-czqewabby) ```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":"“One of the most significant steps in our 26-year history”: JetBrains goes big on agentic development — and bets the IDE still matters","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/one-of-the-most-significant-steps-in-our-26-year-history-jetbrains-goes-big-on-agentic-developmen-czqewabby","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/one-of-the-most-significant-steps-in-our-26-year-history-jetbrains-goes-big-on-agentic-developmen-czqewabby"},"datePublished":"2026-09-22T18:31:35.117Z","dateModified":"2026-09-23T17:14:10.081Z","description":"JetBrains unveiled JetBrains Air, an umbrella system for agentic software development that consolidates several 2026 AI initiatives: an in-IDE agent...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/1849bd825720fff03e479a3ebd26343d?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/1849bd825720fff03e479a3ebd26343d?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The New Stack","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":"The New Stack","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/newstack","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/newstack"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/one-of-the-most-significant-steps-in-our-26-year-history-jetbrains-goes-big-on-agentic-developmen-czqewabby","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai-agents,ai-coding,jetbrains","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The New Stack","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/newstack"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"“One of the most significant steps in our 26-year history”: JetBrains goes big on agentic development — and bets the IDE still matters"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/one-of-the-most-significant-steps-in-our-26-year-history-jetbrains-goes-big-on-agentic-developmen-czqewabby#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is JetBrains Air and what does it include?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"JetBrains Air is an open system of products for agentic software development, formally unveiled by CEO Kirill Skrygan. 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