Original sourceJetBrains Blog
Summary
JetBrains released Rider 2026.2, bringing built-in AI agent support for .NET and game developers, with access to project coverage, performance profiling, and refactoring data to make safer changes with full context understanding. New skills cover testing, profiling, refactoring, and official .NET w…
Key points
- Developers can directly drive project-aware AI agents within a familiar IDE, enabling more precise automated testing, refactoring, and performance tuning.
- Rider 2026.2 sets a new benchmark for deep integration of AI coding agents and IDEs, making agents not just chatbots but collaborative partners that truly "understand" the project.
- .NET and game developers will significantly reduce repetitive refactoring and testing work; third-party model support lowers dependency on specific AI providers.
- Previous Rider versions already had basic AI assistance; this version is a major upgrade to agent-level interaction, forming a complete AI development chain with JetBrains' previously introduced Context repository.
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