The 2026.2 wave runs through the whole lineup - IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, and DataGrip all get Agent Skills, native GitHub Copilot, and MCP tools. The editor stops being a place where you type text and becomes a place where an agent does the work.
- Agent Skills and native GitHub Copilot land in IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, and DataGrip in the same 2026.2 wave (July 2026).
- WebStorm brings a skills manager (install once, works across projects and sessions, reads Claude Code configurations) plus TypeScript 7.
- DataGrip adds three database skills - database-tools, database-connection-management, database-text-to-sql - and new MCP tools for connections.
JetBrains shipped the 2026.2 wave for its code editors. This time the new thing runs through the whole lineup at once - IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, DataGrip. The common move is one: the editor stops being just a place where you type text and becomes a place where an agent does the work - you install a skill for it once, and it carries that skill across projects and sessions.
Here's the substance: the interesting part isn't that yet another editor has an AI chat - that's everywhere already. The interesting part is that the skill became portable. You describe your work once, it lives in your account, and it travels with you from project to project, machine to machine. And WebStorm reads Claude Code's configurations directly - meaning JetBrains isn't building a walled garden, it's hooking into what developers already use. That's a mature move, not a pose.
The weight is shifting from the model to the skill you carry. It doesn't matter which chat sits underneath - Claude, Copilot, or Codex - the winner is whoever described their craft once, cleanly, and carries it everywhere. I'll believe in the 'agentic editor' when the same skill does the job for me in all three editors without me touching it. The test is simple and I'm waiting for it - describe once, run everywhere.