Google has launched the public beta of Jules, its AI-powered coding agent, now available globally with no waitlist. First launched in December 2024 at Google Labs, Jules automates coding tasks, letting developers focus on creative work. Built on Gemini 2.5 Pro, it integrates with GitHub for seamless, efficient coding. Here’s what makes Jules stand out.

What Jules Offers

Jules is an asynchronous coding assistant that clones your repository into a secure Google Cloud VM to understand your project’s context. It handles tasks like:

1. Writing tests
2. Building features
3. Fixing bugs
4. Updating dependencies
5. Creating audio changelogs

Unlike real-time code suggestion tools, Jules works in the background, presenting a plan, reasoning, and code changes for review. Developers can adjust plans, ensuring control. Jules prioritizes privacy, isolating data and not training on private code.

Key Features

1. Project Context: Analyzes full codebases for accurate, project-specific changes.
2. Parallel Tasks: Runs multiple tasks concurrently in cloud VMs.
3. GitHub Integration: Creates pull requests directly in your workflow.
4. User Control: Allows plan modifications before, during, or after execution.
5. Audio Summaries: Delivers spoken changelogs for quick project updates.

Getting Started

Sign up at jules.google, connect your GitHub repository, and prompt tasks like “Add tests for utils.js” or “Update Node.js.” Jules clones the repo, proposes a plan, and generates a PR upon approval. The beta is free, with a daily limit of five tasks and two concurrent tasks. Check jules.google/docs/usage-limits for details.

Jules competes with tools like GitHub Copilot by offering asynchronous task management and deep GitHub integration, though it’s currently limited to Python and JavaScript.

Explore Jules at jules.google to see how it can enhance your coding process during this beta phase.