JetBrains (@jetbrains) announced JetBrains Air, an open product system for agentic software development that connects IDE-side agent orchestration, team workflows, and organizational governance (formerly JetBrains Central). Air is multi-vendor: steer Claude, Codex, Gemini CLI, and JetBrains Junie inside JetBrains IDEs, and plug in other harnesses via the Agent Client Protocol (ACP). The company blog also outlines Air Teams and Air Governance.

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  • ✓Air unifies IDE agent UX, team workflows, and org governance as one open system.
  • ✓Orchestrate multi-vendor agents (including Junie) in JetBrains IDEs; ACP for compatible harnesses.
  • ✓Air Governance (ex-Central) covers policy, visibility, audit, and AI cost control.
JetBrains launches Air: an open agentic product system for developers, teams, and governance
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