JetBrains launches Central for agent workflows
JetBrains released Central, a production infrastructure platform built with Google Cloud, Anthropic, and OpenAI integrations to make autonomous agent workflows enterprise-ready — including evaluation pipelines, monitoring, audit trails, and access controls. The product targets the common bottleneck where under 15% of pilots reach production by standardizing evaluation and observability across teams. (x.com)
JetBrains published the Central announcement on March 24, 2026, and opened an Early Access Program slated to start in Q2 2026 with a cohort of design partners. (blog.jetbrains.com) A JetBrains AI Pulse survey of 11,000 developers showed 90% already use AI at work, 22% reported using coding agents, and 66% of companies plan to adopt coding agents within 12 months — figures JetBrains cited to justify Central’s timing. (blog.jetbrains.com) JetBrains describes Central as a three‑part system providing policy enforcement and identity/access controls, cloud agent runtimes and compute provisioning for agent execution, plus a shared semantic context layer that aggregates repo and runtime knowledge. (blog.jetbrains.com) Central is designed to plug into existing toolchains — JetBrains says it integrates with Git repositories, CI/CD systems, Slack and Atlassian products, and energy around shipping a Central Console for token management and usage analytics is already visible in previews. (ide.com) JetBrains is shipping companion pieces: the Air IDE and Air Team collaboration surface, the Junie CLI coding agent (LLM‑agnostic on GitHub), and support for the Agent Client Protocol so third‑party agents like OpenAI Codex, Anthropic Claude Agent and Google Gemini CLI can interoperate. (github.com) (devclass.com) Parts of JetBrains’ existing collaboration tooling are being reshuffled — the company signaled it will retire Code With Me while Central’s Console will handle governance features such as audit trails and cost attribution in previews. (theregister.com) (ide.com) Anthropic, Google Cloud and OpenAI are named launch partners, and Anthropic’s Guillaume Princen is quoted saying Central provides the infrastructure to scale agentic AI across organizations with enterprise‑grade governance and safety. (techzine.eu)
