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JetBrains has opened an early access program for Air in its IDEs, available as a Marketplace plugin or in 2026.3 EAP builds, and designed to run agents users already have.

VS Code 1.121, released May 20, adds remote agent sessions over SSH and dev tunnels, native Mermaid diagram rendering, HTML file preview, and a new Agent Host Protocol for multi-client agent coordination.

JetBrains launches Central, a governance and execution platform for AI coding agents, alongside IntelliJ IDEA 2026.1 with Agent Client Protocol support and the Air agentic IDE in public preview, signaling a decisive pivot toward agent-driven development.

JetBrains previews Air, a new environment that manages multiple AI coding agents concurrently, alongside a standalone Junie CLI agent in beta.

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code moves to weekly stable releases starting with version 1.111, adding an Autopilot mode that lets AI agents operate autonomously, while Google simultaneously launches a similar auto-approve feature in Gemini Code Assist with stark security warnings.

Microsoft's Visual Studio 2026 ships with AI agents for profiling and debugging, a decoupled build system, 50% faster solution loads, and full backward compatibility — positioning the 30-year-old IDE against Cursor and VS Code in the AI coding era.