Developer tools company JetBrains has announced JetBrains Central, an AI coding agent governance and execution platform.

According to a report by The New Stack, Oleg Koverznev (올레그 코베르즈네프), vice president of JetBrains' agentic platform division, said, "Everyone knows AI is a game changer, but it is very difficult to prove what business value adopting AI actually creates." He said, "Just as pressure followed cloud transitions to prove ROI after investment, the same situation will be repeated with agent AI."

In an AI Pulse survey JetBrains conducted in January of 11,000 developers, 90 percent said they already use AI at work, and 66 percent of companies plan to introduce coding agents within 12 months. However, only 13 percent used AI across the entire software development lifecycle.

Koverznev pointed to a bigger problem: as the number of agents grows, it becomes harder to grasp what is being executed. Market research firm Gartner predicts AI agents will be included in 40 percent of enterprise applications by the end of 2026, up sharply from less than 5 percent currently.

JetBrains Central provides a semantic layer that integrates context from the codebase, architecture, runtime behavior and deployment infrastructure.

It also supports Air Team, a collaborative workspace that integrates with Slack, the Atlassian suite and Linear.

Unlike competitors moving toward building closed ecosystems, JetBrains adopted an open-platform strategy.

It lets customers bring and connect their existing development environments and AI services. Users can also integrate external agents such as Claude, Codex and Gemini CLI without additional development work. Pricing is based on a combination of a flat per-user subscription for governance functions and usage-based charges for agent execution.