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Intention description checker

Reports intentions that are missing an HTML description file, before.template file or after.template file. These are shown in Settings | Editor | Intentions.

The Create description file quick-fix creates a template HTML description file.

If no before/after template files are required, add <skipBeforeAfter>true</skipBeforeAfter> to the intention registration in plugin.xml.

See Intentions in IntelliJ Platform Plugin SDK docs for more details.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

IntentionDescriptionNotFoundInspection
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Plugin DevKit | Description file

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection IntentionDescriptionNotFoundInspection

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025