JetBrains Turns Air Into a Three-Product System and Renames Central to Air Governance
JetBrains published 'JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development' on September 22, splitting Air into Air in JetBrains IDEs, Air Teams for coordinating developer-and-agent delivery workflows, and Air Governance, which is the product formerly called JetBrains Central. The architecture is built on the Agent Client Protocol (developed with Zed), which standardizes the IDE-to-agent-harness connection so Codex, Claude Agent and Gemini CLI run alongside JetBrains' own Junie rather than being locked out. This is a repositioning rather than a first launch, since Air itself shipped as a macOS preview in March 2026, but the move says JetBrains now sees its defensible layer as policy, audit and cost attribution over rival agents, not the editor.
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