Today, JetBrains and GitHub are announcing a deeper integration between JetBrains AI Assistant and GitHub Copilot. Millions of developers already rely on the GitHub Copilot plugin as their AI pair programmer in JetBrains IDEs, and Copilot has also been available inside JetBrains AI Assistant through the Agent Client Protocol (ACP). Now we are taking the next step: GitHub Copilot is a first-class option in the AI Assistant agent picker, so you can choose the entry point that best fits your workflow.
GitHub Copilot as a native agent picker: Open the agent picker in the AI chat and select GitHub Copilot to make it the active agent for the conversation.
Pick your Copilot model: Choose between supported Copilot models and tune reasoning depth right in the AI chat to balance speed, depth, and cost.
Real coding tasks: Hand off multistep work and Copilot will reason through your project, propose changes, run commands, and iterate with you.
JetBrains and GitHub will continue working closely to make this integration even better. In the coming releases, we’ll focus on key next steps including:
