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The September 22 post reorganizes Air into Air in JetBrains IDEs, Air Teams for coordinating developer-and-agent delivery workflows, and Air Governance. It's built on the Agent Client Protocol, developed with Zed, which standardizes the IDE-to-harness connection so Codex, Claude Agent and Gemini CLI run alongside JetBrains' own Junie instead of being locked out. Air itself shipped as a macOS preview in March, so this is a repositioning, and the repositioning says JetBrains now thinks its defensible layer is policy, audit and cost attribution over rival agents. (JetBrains)
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Apple's Xcode 26.6 added Google Gemini alongside Claude and Codex, all pluggable through the open Agent Client Protocol. Devin Desktop and JetBrains have opened to ACP too. The editor is decoupling from any single model vendor, which pressures tools to compete on agent quality...
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Cursor joined the Agent Client Protocol and is now available inside IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and WebStorm — requiring only an existing Cursor paid account, no JetBrains AI subscription needed. ACP is an open protocol jointly developed by JetBrains and Zed to make AI coding agen...
JetBrains released Junie Local on August 24 (JetBrains blog). You type /local inside Junie, it pulls about 20GB of 4-bit weights, starts a local server, and from that point there are no tokens, no quota, and no code leaving the machine. Free. The hardware bar is real and steep...
Cognition shipped an over-the-air update on June 2 that rebranded Windsurf to Devin Desktop and auto-ported everyone's settings (Devin/Cognition). Cascade, the agent a lot of people actually chose Windsurf for, is deprecated. End of life July 1, 2026. In its place: Devin Local...
Warp released its client codebase under AGPL-3.0, surged to 56,000 GitHub stars and #2 on GitHub Trending. But the real story isn't the open-sourcing. It's the repositioning. Warp isn't calling itself a terminal anymore. It's an "agentic development environment." The product n...
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