Seeking to help developers control growing fleets of AI coding agents, JetBrains is introducing JetBrains Central, an agentic development platform for teams to manage and maintain visibility over these agents.
An early access program for JetBrains Central is set to begin in the second quarter of 2026 with a limited number of design partners participating. JetBrains describes the platform as the control and execution plane for agent-driven software production. JetBrains Central is intended to address the difficulties developers face in dealing with the growing number of agents. Developers are increasingly running into challenges with oversight, consistency, and control across these environments, according to JetBrains.
Announced March 24, JetBrains Central acts as a control layer across agentic workflows alongside tools such as the JetBrains’s Air agentic development environment and the Junie LLM-agnostic (large language model) coding agent. JetBrains Central connects developer tools, agents, and development infrastructure into a unified system where automated work can be executed and governed across teams and tools, JetBrains said. Developers can interact with agent workflows from JetBrains IDEs, third-party IDEs, CLI tools, web interfaces, or automated systems. Agents themselves can come from JetBrains or external ecosystems, including Codex, Gemini CLI, or custom agents.
