JetBrains Air Help

Chat

Use Chat to create and continue tasks in JetBrains Air. This tool is always available in the workspace: you describe your goal, add the context the agent needs, send the task, and refine the result with follow-up messages.

Chat is also where a finished task reports back. It shows how many lines the task added and deleted, for example +512 -4, and you click the statistics to open the diff.

Chat toolbar

The toolbar sets how the current task runs. Every option can be changed per task.

  • Add context attaches project items to the task input. See Task context.

  • The agent and model selectors choose who does the work. See Agents and models.

  • Thinking Level adjusts the reasoning depth for agents that support it. See Run tasks.

  • The permission mode controls how freely the agent acts, including plan mode. See Permission modes.

  • The environment selector picks where the task runs. See Task run environments.

  • Send starts the task or sends a follow-up message.

What you can do here

17 August 2026