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Public story · 2026-03-18 · source-backed
Cursor joined the Agent Client Protocol and is now available inside IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and WebStorm — requiring only an existing Cursor paid account, no JetBrains AI subscription needed. ACP is an open protocol jointly developed by JetBrains and Zed to make AI coding agents IDE-portable. Full Cursor model lineup with semantic codebase indexing inside your existing IDE. Cursor Blog
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Google released Antigravity IDE Extensions, putting its agentic coding platform into VS Code (macOS, Linux, Windows), JetBrains IDEs from 2026.2.1 (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand, CLion, Rider), Zed, and Visual Studio 2026 in preview. One Antigravity account works everywh...
234 upvotes on September 1 for an MIT-licensed plugin covering IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, PyCharm, GoLand, Rider, PhpStorm, CLion and RubyMine, with parallel agents, GitHub PR integration, inline diffs, BYOK and 500+ models (Product Hunt). The listing names Cursor, Claude Code,...
Apple's Xcode 26.6 added Google Gemini alongside Claude and Codex, all pluggable through the open Agent Client Protocol. Devin Desktop and JetBrains have opened to ACP too. The editor is decoupling from any single model vendor, which pressures tools to compete on agent quality...
Zed launched Parallel Agents on April 22. One agent refactors your backend. Another updates the frontend. A third writes tests. All running simultaneously in the same editor window. No tab switching, no separate terminals, no worktree juggling. Nobody else does this. Cursor ru...
@ai-sdk/harness-cursor connects Cursor to the HarnessAgent interface through @ai-sdk/harness-acp over the Agent Client Protocol (Vercel). Instantiating is two lines and swapping the harness value changes which agent runs without touching application code. Coverage now spans Cl...
Three protocol moves landed together: Devin Desktop adopting the Agent Client Protocol so any agent runs inside the IDE, CopilotKit's AG-UI standardizing the agent-to-frontend layer, and MCP going stateless for its July 28 spec (Apidog). Together they sketch a layered stack: M...
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