JetBrains has previewed Air, a tool for agentic AI development which it describes as a new wave of dev tooling.Head of product Nik Tkachev said that JetBrains believes agents are changing how software is made, and that Air is designed to delegate tasks to multiple AI agents running concurrently.
Air is now in public preview, though the download page shows that only the macOS version is available, with Windows and Linux promised later. Air supports OpenAI Codex, Anthropic Claude Agent, Google Gemini CLI, and JetBrains Junie. It can use the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), which Zed and JetBrains sponsor, as a vendor-neutral protocol for agent-editor communication, meaning any compliant agent can use it in future.
JetBrains Air building a web application - Click to enlarge
The key element in Air is a task, which is described by the user and run by an agent either directly in a local workspace, in a Git worktree, Docker, or (in a future release) a cloud container. A code editor is included. Users can switch between tasks, and review and approve output.JetBrains has also released Junie CLI (command line interface), which the company said makes its AI agent "fully standalone." Previously, Junie could only be used as an IDE extension. Junie AI tokens can be purchased from JetBrains or users can bring their own key to use an existing subscription, with support for models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Grok. Junie CLI supports macOS, Linux and Windows.
