Google unveils 'Jitro' coder

Google has not published a product page or blog post for “Jitro,” but reporting this week says the name refers to a new internal version of Google’s coding agent Jules aimed at higher-level software goals. (devops.com) Google’s public product today is Jules, which the company introduced in public beta on May 20, 2025 as an asynchronous coding agent that connects to existing repositories and works in the background. Google said Jules clones a codebase into a Google Cloud virtual machine, proposes a plan, and then returns a diff of the changes. (blog.google) Google moved Jules out of public beta on August 6, 2025 and said the service had produced more than 140,000 publicly shared code improvements during testing. The company also said the live product runs on Gemini 2.5 and is available with free access plus higher limits for Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra subscribers. (blog.google) A coding agent is software that can inspect a repository, edit files, run tasks, and prepare changes without a developer typing each line by hand. Google describes Jules as “proactive” and says users can delegate backlog work and automated tasks, which puts it a step beyond autocomplete tools inside an editor. (jules.google.com) The new claim around Jitro is that the system would shift from prompt-by-prompt coding to outcome-based coding. DevOps.com reported on April 8, 2026 that Jitro appears designed around goals such as higher test coverage, lower error rates, or better accessibility compliance, with the agent choosing the steps needed to reach them. (devops.com) That would extend a broader Google push into agent-style developer tools. In the past 13 months, Google has rolled out Gemini Code Assist, launched Jules publicly, and added “vibe coding” and agent features to Google AI Studio for building full-stack applications from natural-language instructions. (codeassist.google) (blog.google) (aistudio.google.com) The evidence for Jitro remains limited. The clearest public sourcing so far is third-party reporting and social posts, while Google’s own sites list Jules, Gemini Code Assist, Google AI Studio, and Google Labs experiments but do not show a public Jitro announcement page as of April 12, 2026. (devops.com) (labs.google) (blog.google) That leaves Jitro, for now, looking less like a launched product than a sign of where Google wants coding tools to go next: from writing requested code to chasing a target a team sets. Until Google publishes technical details, the named product in market is still Jules. (jules.google.com) (blog.google)