Google unveils Jitro self‑coding AI

Google is developing a new coding agent called Jitro that aims to work from goals, not just prompts. (devops.com) Google has not published a standalone announcement about Jitro on its official blogs as of April 12, 2026. The name has surfaced in recent reporting as an internal project tied to a next generation of Jules, Google’s coding agent. (devops.com) To understand Jitro, start with Jules. Google introduced Jules in public beta on May 20, 2025 as an asynchronous coding assistant that connects to existing repositories, runs in a Google Cloud virtual machine, and returns a plan, reasoning, and code diff. (blog.google) Google moved Jules out of beta on August 6, 2025 and said beta users had produced more than 140,000 shared code improvements. The company also added paid usage tiers through Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra. (blog.google) That matters because Google has been building toward more autonomous software tools across its developer products. In November 2025, Google DeepMind introduced Antigravity, an “agentic development platform” built around agents that can plan and execute multi-step software tasks with less step-by-step user input. (deepmind.google) Google has also been pushing coding agents into mainstream developer workflows. In March 2026, the company said Google AI Studio could build full-stack apps with its Antigravity coding agent, part of a broader push to make Gemini more useful for software work. (blog.google) Recent reporting describes Jitro as a shift from “prompt-and-execute” coding to outcome-driven development. Instead of asking an agent to fix one bug or write one function, a developer could set a target like better test coverage or lower error rates and let the system decide what code changes to make. (devops.com) That would move Google closer to the model it has already outlined for agentic tools: longer-running systems that work across repositories, tools, and tasks, while showing users higher-level plans rather than every individual action. Google described that approach in Antigravity as a product built around trust, autonomy, feedback, and self-improvement. (deepmind.google) There is still a gap between the reporting and a confirmed product launch. Google’s official posts name Jules and Antigravity, but not Jitro, so the clearest verified fact today is that Google already sells coding agents and is openly steering them toward more autonomous behavior. (blog.google; deepmind.google) If Google turns Jitro from an internal project into a public product, it would extend a path the company has been tracing since 2025: from code completion, to background task execution, to agents that manage larger pieces of software work on their own. (blog.google; deepmind.google)