Google Releases Jules - An Asynchronous Coding Agent
Jules is a coding agent that helps you fix bugs, add documentation, and build new features. It integrates with GitHub, understands your codebase, and works asynchronously.
Greg Brockman was right. 2025 really is the age of AI coding agents.
In less than a month, we’ve watched three of the biggest tech companies launch products with full-on agentic coding capabilities.
On May 16, OpenAI introduced Codex, a software engineering agent built into ChatGPT.
On May 19, Microsoft and GitHub unveiled a new coding agent for GitHub Copilot that also works inside VS Code.
On May 20, Google unveiled a coding agent called Jules powered by Gemini that is also integrated with GitHub.
What is Jules?
Jules is a coding agent that helps you fix bugs, add documentation, and build new features. It integrates with GitHub, understands your codebase, and works asynchronously, so you can move on while it handles the task.
It runs each task inside a secure, short-lived virtual machine (VM). This lets it clone your repository, install dependencies, and run tests.
Jules is still an experimental product, but is already in public beta, available to everyone. No waitlist. Worldwide, everywhere where the Gemini model is available.
Check out this example where Jules updates the codebase to a new version of Node.js:
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