Rider 2026.2: IDE Intelligence for AI Agents, Faster Performance, and Spectacular Game Dev Updates
A new set of agent skills covers testing, profiling, refactoring, and official Microsoft .NET workflows, and GitHub Copilot now joins the lineup as a natively integrated agent. This release also delivers a wave of performance gains that make the IDE feel faster across both .NET and game development. Download Rider 2026.2 Bring Rider’s intelligence to your AI agents Rider 2026.2 connects coding agents directly to the IDE’s coverage data, profiler insights, refactoring engine, and framework-specific guidance, so they find context faster and make safer changes with less guesswork and token waste.
- ▪A new set of agent skills covers testing, profiling, refactoring, and official Microsoft .NET workflows, and GitHub Copilot now joins the lineup as a natively integrated agent.
- ▪This release also delivers a wave of performance gains that make the IDE feel faster across both .NET and game development.
- ▪Download Rider 2026.2 Bring Rider’s intelligence to your AI agents Rider 2026.2 connects coding agents directly to the IDE’s coverage data, profiler insights, refactoring engine, and framework-specific guidance, so they find context faster
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.NET Tools Essential productivity kit for .NET and game developers Follow Follow: Guide Guide RSS RSS Get Tools All How-To's Releases Livestreams Events dotInsights Rider ReSharper Game dev .NET Tools News Releases Rider Rider 2026.2: IDE Intelligence for AI Agents, Faster Performance, and Spectacular Game Dev Updates Sasha Ivanova Rider 2026.2 opens up the IDE’s own intelligence to your AI coding agents, so they work from real project knowledge instead of reconstructing it from files and terminal output. A new set of agent skills covers testing, profiling, refactoring, and official Microsoft .NET workflows, and GitHub Copilot now joins the lineup as a natively integrated agent.
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