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title: "JetBrains Air: Building a System of Products for Agentic Software Development"
description: "JetBrains Air is a system of products for agentic software development, built on the premise that no single model, agent, or service fits every developer, team, or task. It connects products for individual work, team coordination, organizational control, context, and process automation, while remaining open to tools and agents developers choose, including those JetBrains does not build. This openness lets developers select the agent, model, or service suited to a task without forcing the organization to give up context, visibility, or control. The Post notes that every new model, agent, or service an organization adds reduces visibility into its own development work. Because intelligence does not belong to one model, the benefit can extend across supported agents and services."
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# JetBrains Air: Building a System of Products for Agentic Software Development

[Jetbrains](https://yomu.fyi/company/jetbrains) · Kirill Skrygan · Sep 22, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

JetBrains Air is a system of products for agentic software development, built on the premise that no single model, agent, or service fits every developer, team, or task. It connects products for individual work, team coordination, organizational control, context, and process automation, while remaining open to tools and agents developers choose, including those JetBrains does not build. This openness lets developers select the agent, model, or service suited to a task without forcing the organization to give up context, visibility, or control. The Post notes that every new model, agent, or service an organization adds reduces visibility into its own development work. Because intelligence does not belong to one model, the benefit can extend across supported agents and services.

## Context

The Post argues that no single model, agent, or service will suit every developer, team, or task, and that adding new models or agents erodes organizational visibility into development work. JetBrains Air addresses this by building an open, integrated system rather than a closed tool.

## Approach / What changed

JetBrains Air is designed as a system of products that connects tools for individual work, team coordination, organizational control, context, and process automation, while remaining open to external agents, models, and services. It lets developers choose the agent, model, or service suited to a task without sacrificing context, visibility, or control, and extends benefits across supported agents and services.

## Takeaways

- JetBrains Air is designed as an open system that connects individual work, team coordination, organizational control, context, and process automation.
- Developers can choose the agent, model, or service best suited to a task without sacrificing organizational context, visibility, or control.
- Adding new models or agents reduces an organization’s visibility into its own development work, but Air’s open design lets benefits extend across supported agents and services.

## FAQ

### How does JetBrains Air stay open to external tools?

It remains open to the tools and agents developers choose, including those JetBrains does not build, so teams can pick the best fit without losing context, visibility, or control.

### Why does JetBrains Air support multiple models?

Because intelligence does not belong to one model, the benefit can extend across supported agents and services, allowing organizations to use multiple models without giving up oversight.

**Tags:** [AI Agents](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai-agents), [AI Development Tools](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai-development-tools), [JetBrains](https://yomu.fyi/topic/jetbrains)

- Source: [Jetbrains](https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2026/09/22/introducing-jetbrains-air)
- Source URL: https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2026/09/22/introducing-jetbrains-air
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-22T12:00:10.329Z

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