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.
Fact
The facts: In 2026.2 JetBrains adds Agent Skills and native GitHub Copilot integration directly into the editors. WebStorm gets a skills manager - install a skill once and it's available across projects and sessions, it imports configurations from Claude Code, and works with Claude and Codex - plus support for TypeScript 7 (Microsoft's new compiler, written in Go); per JetBrains, loading the Kibana codebase drops from around 12 to around 3 seconds. DataGrip adds three database skills - database-tools, database-connection-management, database-text-to-sql - new MCP tools for connections (create_database_connection, edit_database_connection), and terminal commands for managing data sources. IntelliJ IDEA carries the same Agent Skills and native Copilot. Dates: DataGrip 2026.2 - 16 July 2026; IntelliJ IDEA and WebStorm - the same 2026.2 wave, July 2026. Source: blog.jetbrains.com.
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.
Official primary sources
JetBrains Blog - IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2JetBrains Blog - WebStorm 2026.2JetBrains Blog - DataGrip 2026.2 (AI Agent Skills, MCP tools, CLI)The visual is generated code-art, no third-party images.