Paul Krill
Editor at Large

JetBrains unveils JetBrains Air for agentic software development

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Sep 23, 20262 mins

JetBrains Air system will comprise existing and future tools for executing, controlling, and governing software delivery workflows involving developers and autonomous agents.

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JetBrains on September 22 announced JetBrains Air, an open system of products for managing AI-powered software development workflows across developers, teams, and organizations. JetBrains Air includes products that are available today and others that will be introduced as the system develops, JetBrains said.

“For 26 years, we have focused primarily on the individual developer workbench. Now, we are building for the wider system through which agentic work is initiated, executed, coordinated, reviewed, and governed,” JetBrains CEO Kirill Skrygan said in a blog post announcing the initiative. Skrygan said the product suite would include:

  • Air in JetBrains IDEs – a complete agentic development experience for directing and orchestrating agents and verifying their work inside JetBrains IDEs. 
  • Air Teams – a new way to coordinate and automate software-delivery workflows involving developers and autonomous agents. 
  • Air Governance (formerly JetBrains Central) – organizational policy, visibility, auditability, cost management, and accountability for AI-assisted and agent-driven development. 

JetBrains Air will develop through a rolling series of releases. Over time, the product suite will extend further into mobile and remote experiences, allowing developers to initiate, monitor, review, and continue agentic work as it moves between environments, Skrygan said. The company will also bring JetBrains’ intelligence into more agentic workflows, he said, including richer context from code, architecture, repositories, runtime behavior, and organizational knowledge, and better ways to route work between developers, models, agents, and services.

Paul Krill

Paul Krill is editor at large at InfoWorld. Paul has been covering computer technology as a news and feature reporter for more than 35 years, including 30 years at InfoWorld. He has specialized in coverage of software development tools and technologies since the 1990s, and he continues to lead InfoWorld’s news coverage of software development platforms including Java and .NET and programming languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, and Go. Long trusted as a reporter who prioritizes accuracy, integrity, and the best interests of readers, Paul is sought out by technology companies and industry organizations who want to reach InfoWorld’s audience of software developers and other information technology professionals. Paul has won a “Best Technology News Coverage” award from IDG.

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