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JetBrains open-sourced an agentic IDE where agents never touch your checkout
Community description: JetBrains open-sourced Thinkrail, an Apache-2.0 agentic IDE where every agent works in its own git worktree, the project's truth lives in a graph of SPEC.md files the agent maintains itself, and there are no accounts. Repo walkthrough: the three ideas worth stealing.
Dev.to | Oct 26, 2026 | Sam LABBE
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This week the agent stack is assembling in public: NVIDIA shipped the runtime layer (OpenShell), and now JetBrains ships the environment layer. The common pattern today is: agent edits files in place, you review the diff in the same tree you're building in, and a second agent is a merge conflict generator. Repo: github.com/JetBrains/thinkrail · Apache 2.0 · built around the pi coding agent TL;DR — worktrees for parallel agents, a self-maintaining spec graph for durable intent, your keys and no accounts.
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