JetBrains Joins the Agentic Artificial Intelligence Foundation

Alexandra Charikova

JetBrains is joining the new Agentic Artificial Intelligence Foundation (AAIF) hosted by the Linux Foundation. The AAIF brings together leading organizations contributing to the next generation of open agentic technologies.

The foundation launches with several key open-source projects – including MCP, goose, and AGENTS.md – which already form an emerging ecosystem for shared standards and tooling.

As highlighted in the foundation’s announcement:

“We are seeing AI enter a new phase, as conversational systems shift to autonomous agents that can work together. Within just one year, MCP, goose, and AGENTS.md have become essential tools for developers building this new class of agentic technologies. Bringing these projects together under the AAIF ensures they can grow with the transparency and stability that only open governance provides. The Linux Foundation is proud to serve as the neutral home where they will continue to build AI infrastructure the world will rely on.”

— Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation.

Why we are joining

For 25 years, JetBrains IDEs have been where software is made. With the rise of agentic systems, developers will increasingly rely on tools that can plan, coordinate, and execute work across their environments. This direction is directly reflected in how we build Junie, our AI coding agent, and how we continue to evolve JetBrains AI Assistant, which brings intelligent assistance directly into our IDEs. In addition, Claude Agent is already integrated into our IDEs, and we plan to add more coding agents in the future. JetBrains will remain an open platform offering a choice of coding agents both in IDEs and in the cloud. This supports our vision of hybrid human-agent teams collaborating on software creation and maintenance throughout the life cycle, without loss in quality.

We want this shift to progress in an open, well-governed and trustworthy manner.

“Agentic AI represents a foundational shift in how software is built and operated. Open, interoperable agentic systems will be critical to the next generation of software development. By participating in the Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation, JetBrains is eager to bring our engineering expertise to a community committed to building these systems in a neutral, collaborative, and responsible way. 
We will ensure these technologies remain transparent, extensible, and beneficial to the global developer community.” 

— Arun Gupta, VP, Developer Experience at JetBrains

Open collaboration has shaped every major transition in software development, and we expect the same here. Shared protocols, clear interfaces, and transparent behavior are essential for systems that interact with code, data, tools, and developer workflows.

By joining the AAIF, we commit to helping build the foundations this ecosystem requires: specifications, tooling, governance models, documentation, and support for maintainers. Our goal is to help ensure that agentic systems integrate safely and consistently with IDEs and development environments.

Challenges such as interoperability, security, governance, evaluation, and integration cannot be solved by a single organization. They require a neutral space where peers, competitors, researchers, and practitioners work together – and the AAIF makes this possible.

We see this work as shared infrastructure that the industry will depend on, and we believe it should be developed in the open. This lowers the cost and democratizes agent-driven software for users and companies that build on top of this shared infrastructure.

Looking ahead

We look forward to participating through strategic investment, community building, and shared development of open standards.

We will continue to enhance our IDEs, evolve Junie, advance AI Assistant, onboard a wide selection of agents, and deliver next-level agentic experiences in the cloud – with a focus on reliability, transparency, and interoperability. Our participation in the AAIF will help us align these efforts with emerging standards and contribute to the shared practices that support developers and tool builders across the ecosystem.

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