Actions

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Lets your agent write or modify IntelliJ AnAction classes and register them in plugin.xml.

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About this capability

Implement or change IntelliJ `AnAction` actions and registrations.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by jetbrains/intellij-community in .agents/skills/actions/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Guidelines for implementing IntelliJ actions (AnAction).

NEVER instantiate Presentation in action constructors - Use no-argument constructors
Define text, description, and icon in plugin.xml - Not in constructor parameters
Use AnActionEvent#getCoroutineScope for launching suspending computations - actionPerformed runs synchronously with event invocation and may freeze the IDE.
Follow the convention:
1. Set the id attribute for the action in plugin.xml
2. Optionally set the icon attribute if an icon is needed
3. Set text and description in the message bundle (e.g., GitBundle.properties):
- action.<action-id>.text=Translated Action Text
- action.<action-id>.description=Translated Action Description

Good example:

Kotlin:

class MyAction : AnAction()

plugin.xml:

<action id="My.Action.Id"
        class="my.package.MyAction"
        icon="my.package.MyIcons.ICON"/>

Bundle.properties:

action.My.Action.Id.text=My Action
action.My.Action.Id.description=Description of my action

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