JetBrains gives every one of its IDEs a dedicated workspace for coding agents from different vendors

JetBrains on Thursday released the 2026.3 versions of its development environments, including PyCharm, GoLand, PhpStorm, WebStorm, RustRover, RubyMine and DataGrip. According to the company's own blogs, each of those programs now includes Air, a layer for running several AI agents, following their progress and reviewing their changes without leaving the IDE.

Air works with agents from different vendors, including Claude Agent, Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, JetBrains' own Junie and OpenCode, as well as other agents that speak the open Agent Client Protocol (ACP). Developers can use their existing subscriptions and API keys, with no separate AI subscription from JetBrains; a free account gives access to a limited version of Junie. An agent's changes appear next to the surrounding code, and developers can attach comments to a specific line that go back to the agent. Users of the older AI Assistant are offered a trial of Air.

Each IDE also gets its own improvements. PyCharm supports an initial version of the lazy imports in Python 3.15 and draws FastAPI dependencies as an interactive graph, PhpStorm handles PHP 8.6, and GoLand gives agents a skill for using the profiler on performance problems. GitHub said on Tuesday in its changelog that Copilot is available in Air through ACP, both locally and for tasks in the cloud. Those cloud tasks each run in a container on a fresh virtual machine, with no data carried over between tasks.