JetBrains Central

JetBrains Central is a new platform announced on March 24, 2026, designed as the governance and execution layer for agentic software development. As AI coding agents become production tools rather than experiments, Central addresses the emerging need for orchestration, oversight, and shared context across teams running multiple agents simultaneously.

Rather than being another coding assistant, Central is infrastructure for teams already using AI agents — providing the connective tissue between JetBrains IDEs, AI agents from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, and shared codebase context across repositories and projects.

Key features: - Open platform: connects JetBrains IDEs with external agents (Claude, GPT-5.4, Gemini) - Governance layer: controls what agents can access, audit trails, permission scoping - Shared context across repositories — agents understand the full project, not just one file - Cloud infrastructure for running agents in isolated, sandboxed environments - Enterprise-ready: designed for Fortune 500 multi-agent deployments - Replaces the retired Code With Me human pair programming feature

Central represents JetBrains' bet that the future of software development is managing teams of AI agents rather than writing code yourself. It's aimed squarely at enterprise engineering teams and platform teams building internal developer tooling.

Early Access Program launches Q2 2026 with limited design partners. Enterprise pricing TBA.