October 23, 2025
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The provider of several popular IDEs wants to give users a choice over AI models and agents, but recent pricing changes have frustrated users.
Although JetBrains, the maker of a popular set of integrated development environments (IDEs), offers its own AI coding agent called Junie, it has recently introduced another, Anthropic’s Claude Agent, via an AI chat interface. Claude Agent has full access to IDE capabilities through the JetBrains Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.
JetBrains has also joined Google and Zed Industries in adopting the fledgling Agent Client Protocol (ACP), a standard for how AI agents interact with code editors and IDEs.
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October 23, 2025
