Agentic 'Air' lets multiple AI agents run tasks concurrently, while loyal IntelliJ users wonder what's in it for them

JetBrains has previewed Air, a tool for agentic AI development which it describes as a new wave of dev tooling.

Head of product Nik Tkachev said that JetBrains believes agents are changing how software is made, and that Air is designed to delegate tasks to multiple AI agents running concurrently. 

Air is now in public preview, though the download page shows that only the macOS version is available, with Windows and Linux promised later. Air supports OpenAI Codex, Anthropic Claude Agent, Google Gemini CLI, and JetBrains Junie. It can use the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), which Zed and JetBrains sponsor, as a vendor-neutral protocol for agent-editor communication, meaning any compliant agent can use it in future.

The key element in Air is a task, which is described by the user and run by an agent either directly in a local workspace ...