If "Actions On Save" does not work anymore for you, check if you have the "File Watchers" plugin installed.

If you are using it, remove all the watchers setup or disable/remove it and the "Actions On Save" will work again as expected.

An issue is created on YouTrack and I commented every similar issue that have been close because "we can't reproduce on our side".

Will the Junie /local inference engine be updated to take advantage of Metal?

I'm not a use everything free app guy, I usually pay for one time software apps if they're good but I don't like paying for subscriptions.

I was wondering what do you guys find jetbrains useful that a free vs code ide can't do or other ide?

Just wondering what are the benefits. I usually find subscription apps get worse overtime because they keep adding features i don't need and make the app bloated and worse.

Does anyone know If I loose the extra days renewing early?

I used jetbrains for the last few years, now im at a new company and it's all cursor.

I want to use jetbrains but I have a monorepo so theres go and typescript frontends, which tool can I use for both?

Hey r/Jetbrains

I've been building a plugin called **Tasklane**, and it's finally at a point where I'd love other people to try it and tell me what's wrong with it.

It's for the stuff you notice while you're coding: "this retry logic is broken", "add an empty state here", "check this before I push". That's too small for Jira or GitHub Issues. `// TODO` comments get lost or end up in commits. And a notes app has no idea which file you were in.

So Tasklane is a tool window with a task list per Git repository, stored inside the project. No account, no server, no network calls. Everything stays on your machine.

Here's everything it does. It's a long list, sorry 😅

The basics

- One list per Git repository. Several repos in the same project? Each one gets its own tasks, with a selector to switch and a toggle to search all of them at once. Submodules count too. No Git? It falls back to the project root.

- States as tabs, with live counts that respect your search and filter. The defaults are To Do / In Progress / Review / Done, but you can have whatever states you want. The row scrolls sideways if they don't fit.

- A card per task: priority stripe, a checkbox to complete it, a title of up to three lines, one line of the body, and badges for priority, code anchors, due date, tags, links, images and date.

- Bookmarks pin a task to the top of its group, whatever its priority.

- View filter: All / Open / Overdue / Bookmarked, on top of whatever you're searching.

- Empty repo? The list shows you how to get started, with the shortcuts.

Tasks anchored to code

- Anchor a task to a line or a block. Select some code, then New Tasklane Task from Here (editor right-click, or ⌘⌥⇧R / Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R), and the task points at session.ts:49-60.

- The editor shows it. Anchored lines get a mark in the priority colour, either a gutter icon or an inline TODO pill (your choice). Hover it to see the task, its tags and even its screenshots. Click it and the task opens in Tasklane.

- The card shows the code. Expand an anchored card and you see the current code of that block, read live from the file. One click takes you back to the exact line and column.

- Anchors follow the code. Adding lines above, re-indenting or moving the function a bit doesn't break them, because they're re-found by their text. Rename or move the file from the IDE, even with a refactoring, and the anchor goes with it. If the file disappears, the anchor shows as broken instead of silently doing nothing.

- Alt+Enter on a // TODO turns it into an anchored task and removes the comment. Import TODO Comments… pulls in every TODO in the project without touching the code.

- GitHub-style ranges work too: paste src/Login.kt:42-58 or #L42-L58 into the dialog, with path autocompletion.

Capturing tasks fast

- ⌘⌥R / Ctrl+Alt+R from anywhere opens the task dialog without opening the tool window.

- Priority triggers: start with !!! and the task is created as High. Triggers are configurable per priority.

- Inline tags: type #api and a space in the text and it becomes a tag chip. It ignores #123, C# and anything inside code.

- Tag suggestions from the repo, with counts. Just click the tags field to see them, so you don't end up with both #api and #apis.

- Paste a list → get a list. ⌘V in the task list with some text creates one task per line. Bullets, numbers and [ ] are stripped, and URLs become links. Great for meeting notes.

- Paste a screenshot and you get a task with that image.

- Drop files from Finder, the project view or the browser. An image becomes a task with that screenshot, and a code file becomes a task anchored to it.

- Everything you just created stays selected, and one ⌘Z removes it all.

Cards that hold the whole story

- Markdown body: bold, italics, code, strikethrough and fenced code blocks, rendered on the card itself. The dialog has a formatting toolbar.

- Checklists: - [ ] item becomes a real checkbox you can tick right from the list, and the card shows ☑ 2/5.

- Links open in one click from anywhere on the card, without entering edit mode. Long URLs are shortened for display.

- Screenshots: paste, drop or pick images in the dialog. They're stored at full size and deduplicated by hash, with thumbnails in the list. Click to enlarge, and pin the image window so it stays on top of the editor while you code.

- Expand a card (⌘↵) to read everything, images included, without leaving the list.

- Select and copy text straight from the card.

Organizing

- Group by priority, date (Today plus one group per day) or tag, chosen per state. Groups collapse, and that's remembered.

- Manual order: drag cards by their handle, or use ⌘⇧↑/↓.

- Board view: open all your states as columns in an editor tab and drag cards between them, selections included. Same cards, same menus, same undo.

- Archive old stuff: optionally hide tasks completed more than N days ago. The list always tells you how many are hidden, and search still finds them.

- Huge lists are fine: the list loads in pages, and big groups start collapsed.

Search

- Full-text search over the whole body, ignoring case and accents, ranked by relevance (SQLite FTS5).

- A small query language:

- state:doing, p:high, repo:backend

- is:open, is:done, is:overdue, is:bookmarked

- has:due, has:checklist, has:tag, has:link, has:image, has:code, has:broken-anchor

- file:AuthService (by anchored path), #api #urgent

- Dates: due:today, due:<7d, closed:week, created:>2026-09-01, updated:<2w

- Negate anything with -: -#wip, -p:low, -is:done

- Autocompletion for operators and their values: your states, priorities and tags.

- It shows why each task matched: matches are highlighted, and a collapsed card shows the body line that matched, not just the first one.

- Search Everywhere (⇧⇧) has a Tasklane tab with the same syntax. Enter jumps to the task, even if it's archived.

- Click a tag on a card to filter by it.

Acting on many tasks + undo

- Multi-select and act on all of them as one operation: complete, bookmark, Move To ▸, Priority ▸, Due ▸ (Today / Tomorrow / End of Week / Next Week / Pick Date), Tags ▸ Add / Remove, delete. Over ten tasks it runs in the background, and cancelling rolls it all back.

- Keyboard everything: Space completes, 1…9 sets priority, ⇧⌥←/→ moves tasks to the previous/next state, ⌘N creates a task in the current state.

- Real undo/redo (⌘Z / ⌘⇧Z) for everything you do in the list: moves, priorities, edits, checkboxes, reordering, creating, deleting. The status bar tells you what was undone.

- Delete doesn't ask, it lets you undo: "3 tasks deleted, Undo" brings them back exactly as they were.

AI agents (MCP)

If you use Claude Code, Junie, AI Assistant, Cursor or any other MCP client:

- With the IDE's built-in MCP server turned on, agents get Tasklane tools: list repositories, list and search tasks (same query syntax), get a full task (anchors resolved to *today's* line, plus screenshot file paths), create, update, complete, and tick checklist items.

- There's deliberately no delete tool. Agents can't nuke your list.

- Hand Off to Agent: right-click a task and an IDE terminal tab opens with your agent already working on it. You can set up as many agents as you want (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, the same one with another model…), each with its own command. When it's done, the agent closes the task.

- Copy Agent Prompt for agents that don't live in a terminal, and Copy Agent Instructions gives you a paragraph for CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md so agents put their leftovers in Tasklane instead of sprinkling // TODOs.

- Whatever the agent changes shows up in the list instantly, and it doesn't mess with your undo stack.

Make it yours

Settings live under Settings → Tools → Tasklane:

- States: name, which is the default, which ones are terminal (they close tasks and stamp a completion date), and how each one groups and sorts. Drag rows to reorder the tabs. You also choose which states show in the tool window, on the board and in the status bar.

- Priorities: name, default, trigger, and colours for light and dark themes.

- Tags: see every tag in the repo with its count. Rename, merge (rename to an existing name), delete, and give them colours. Coloured tags show as filled pills.

- Code anchors: gutter icon, inline pill, or nothing.

- Template for new projects, so you don't configure every project from scratch.

- States, priorities and tag colours are saved in .idea/tasklane.xml, so you can commit them and share them with your team. Personal stuff (filters, open tab, reminders) stays in workspace.xml.

- Removing a state or priority that still has tasks asks where to move them. Nothing gets lost.

Due dates and the status bar

- Due dates from presets or a calendar. Overdue dates turn red.

- A reminder like "2 overdue · 1 due today in backend", at most once a day per task. Easy to turn off.

- A status bar widget: To Do 7 · In Progress 2 · Review 2 · 1 overdue for the active repo. Click a count to jump there.

Export, import and your data

- Copy to clipboard as Markdown or plain text: a whole state, a date group or just the selection. A date group comes out as a little daily report (## 2026-09-11 plus a numbered list), handy for standups.

- Save to file: .md, .csv (opens fine in Excel) or .txt, for the selection, a group, a state or the whole repo.

- Repository archive (.zip) with all tasks and their screenshots. Import merges by id, shows you a summary first and never overwrites newer tasks.

- Local SQLite database in .idea/tasklane/, with its own .gitignore, so nothing shows up in git status unless you want it to.

- Daily backup, an integrity check after a crash, and automatic repair if the database ever gets damaged. The damaged file is kept, never deleted. It's tested by killing the process mid-write.

- Image housekeeping: unused screenshots are cleaned up automatically, there's a size counter and cleanup buttons, and a warning if a repo's images go over a size you choose.

- Tasklane: Diagnostics shows counts, disk usage, backup status and latencies.

Details

- Works in any JetBrains IDE: IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, PyCharm, GoLand, PhpStorm, RubyMine, CLion, Rider… version **2026.1 or newer**.

- Git, Terminal and MCP integrations are optional. Without them, the rest still works.

- Free and open source (MIT).

Install: Settings → Plugins → Marketplace, search for Tasklane

Source: https://github.com/palmerovicdev/tasklane

It's a solo project, so any feedback helps a lot: what's confusing, what's missing, what annoys you, or what breaks. I'll be around in the comments. Thanks for reading all the way down here 🙏

I like Markdown for almost everything, and lately I write all my presentations in Marp, an awesome tool that turns plain old Markdown into slides, with --- as the divider between slides.

For a while I used the Marp VS Code extension, because I couldn't find a JetBrains plugin for it. But I've never been a big fan of VS Code, and on my Wayland Linux setup I hit the most annoying bug: I couldn't drag and drop an image into the Markdown to reference it, it always opened the image preview instead.

So I built the plugin myself, for the IDEs I use for most of my work anyway.

What Marp Preview does:

• Live preview next to the editor, refreshed as you type. marp-core renders it inside the IDE, so no Node.js is needed
• Scroll sync both ways, and a slide overview where you drag slides to reorder the deck
• Completion, hover docs and inspections for Marp directives and image keywords
• Custom themes, plus export to HTML and PDF. PPTX, images and the presenter view work through Marp CLI if you have it installed

It works in IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider and the other IntelliJ-based IDEs (2026.2 or newer). It's free and MIT licensed.

If anyone is interested in giving it a try, I'd love to hear your feedback.

Marketplace: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/35113-marp-preview

Source: https://github.com/p3kj/marp-intellij

that is all. It would be nice if all the Jetbrains stuff got updated too when I do dnf update / flatpak update (along with working with package manager GUI like Discover).

It's mildly annoying to have to update manually through toolbox (and automatic updates are also not an option because I have to control when the updates happen).

I would also be happy if the snap versions were replaced by flatpaks. If the Toolbox can manage snap installs (which would then be flatpaks), this would be close enough for me.

whenever I try to do an embedded project my IDE won't show me the available boards. How can I fix this?

Hey everyone,

I wanted GoLand to look good on my monitor, so I made a custom theme :)

Colors are tuned for Go first, but I checked it against a bunch of other popular languages and tried it in IDEA, Rider, CLion and RustRover, so it should hold up there too!

• Marketplace: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/35081-gopher-burrow
• Source: https://github.com/mg0x7BE/gopher-burrow

Feedback welcome, especially if something looks off in your setup!

I have Clion, Rider and RustRover. JetBrains Toolkit won't udate them. They are greyed out. I can't remember the exact words when the mouse hovers over them, something like 'The path or files is not writeable, check settings.' I can't update from within the apps because it says updates are controlled by Toolkit.

I uninstalled Toolkit and can now update from within each app. Both before and after installing Toolkit, updates were, and are still, extremely slow, like 40 minutes. It must spend 30-35 minutes on the validating... stage.

It's a new Lenovo PC, Intel Core Ultra 5 226V, 16GB RAM, Windows 11 with all updates. Little else installed. Any ideas?

The initial package targets macOS Apple Silicon and IntelliJ IDEA 2026.1–2026.2.

A heap dump tells you what is in memory. The harder question is: why is it still there?

I built HeapLens, a free, open-source plugin that brings heap investigation into IntelliJ IDEA.

With HeapLens, you can:

• Explore class histograms and dominator trees.
• Follow “Why alive?” paths to understand object retention.
• Inspect fields and trace incoming references.
• Query heap objects using HeapQL, a SQL-like language.
• Navigate to matching Java source.
• Use optional AI assistance to explain findings and propose changes for review.

Heap analysis runs locally through a bundled Rust engine—no separate analysis-server installation required. AI features use your configured provider, and Fix with AI asks before sending source code.

If you investigate Java memory issues, I would love your feedback: what is the hardest part of your current heap-analysis workflow?

HeapLens Marketplace listing
Source code and feedback

#Java #IntelliJIDEA #JVM #PerformanceEngineering #memoryleak #performance #heaplens

The AI Assistant in Rider used to run SQL queries in the background using the database tool in Rider and continues after getting the results. Nothing visual.

Today I was running Copilot in Air in Rider and it took a different route.
I can see it trying to open a new database console but pasting commands. For some reason, it wasn't able and it told me to open it myself and have it have focus, which I did.

Then it was pasting SQL commands and trying them out to investigate the data in the database. It was clicking on the run button too, as if it's controlling Rider visually.
I have never seen this before. Is this something new?

I feel it's slower. Is there a way to tell the AI assistant in Air to query the database using the connection like it used in the background vs controlling the console visually?

Why does Rider's MCP server port change sometimes by itself?
This causes the configured mcp for rider-ide to stop working because it's listening on the wrong port because Rider changed it. This happened a couple of times so far. Rider's mcp server port changed from 64483 to 64482 all of a sudden and the AI Assistant was telling me it can't do something in Rider when I know it should and this is the first thing I check.

Hi everyone!

I'm using WebStorm with the JetBrains AI Assistant plugin and the Codex agent.

I signed into Codex using my ChatGPT Plus account, not an OpenAI API key. In the JetBrains settings, Codex shows as "Managed by agent", and I haven't purchased a JetBrains AI Pro or Ultimate subscription.

I've been using Codex quite a lot for a personal game development project, and my ChatGPT profile currently shows over 21 million tokens used.

My questions are:

Does Codex use only my ChatGPT Plus limits when authenticated through ChatGPT?

Can JetBrains charge me separately for Codex usage or tokens in this setup?

Do I need a paid JetBrains AI subscription to continue using Codex through the AI Assistant plugin?

If I reach my ChatGPT Codex usage limits, will the agent simply stop until the limits reset, without generating additional charges?

I have automatic credit top-ups disabled in my ChatGPT account and haven't configured any API keys.

I'm mainly concerned about receiving an unexpected bill from JetBrains or OpenAI.

Has anyone used Codex in WebStorm with this exact setup and can confirm how billing works?

Thanks in advance!

Hello, I have been using Mellum 2.1 with the old AI plugin running it using ollama, but I am no longer seeing it as an available model in Air IDE and was not able to find any documentation on how to setup it properly.

Can someone provide me with a guide on how to do it? My current Agent is Junie (not lite).

Thanks!

Can someone tell why my balance is gone and I can't use Junie anymore?

There were no expiration date or anything.

Did I missed some announcement or smth?

Since some versions ago we could hold Alt while clicking the fold arrow of a code region to either fold it or collapse it recursively but now holding Alt does nothing. Is there a way to re-enable this?

I think, but can't actually remember, holding either Ctrl or Shift folded code by levels too. Like click once it folded all children, click again it folded the entire block, click again it collapsed one level, click again it collapsed all.

Hi everyone! GitHub Copilot for JetBrains v1.19.0 brings enterprise-managed default models, a Fix action for IDE diagnostics, and more control over MCP server startup. We’ve also improved conversation navigation, added copy and edit actions for your messages, and fixed several worktree and MCP issues.

Highlights and fixes below. Full release notes and download.

New Features

• Enterprise-managed default models: Organizations can choose any available Copilot agent model as the default for new conversations.
• Fix diagnostics with Inline Chat: Use the new Fix action in diagnostic intention menus to request a repair, using Agent mode when available and Ask otherwise.
• MCP startup control: Disable automatic MCP server startup for Copilot and Claude while keeping manual Start and Restart available.

UX Improvements

• Grouped chat messages by conversation turns, with quick navigation between turns.
• Added action buttons to copy and edit your messages.
• Refined signed-in account controls with clearer labels, simpler status display, easier navigation through long account lists, and a Switch Account action.
• Redesigned the Chat sign-in page with a responsive layout, clearer provider choices, theme-aligned styling, and a direct link to Copilot plans. Browser authorization now shows cancellable, non-modal progress.
• Added a one-time reminder beside the Chat icon to help newly installed users discover Copilot Chat, and updated the Copilot agent input placeholder to highlight questions, edits, context, and commands.
• Made Go Back open a Copilot home session after an accepted migration command, even when continuing the Local conversation.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed IDE freezes when switching chat agent providers with large model lists.
• Fixed requests failing during Copilot language server startup when initialization took longer than half a second.
• Fixed Generate and New actions in Customizations not replacing an existing Copilot agent chat draft with the selected /create-* command.
• Corrected line-change counts shown for Copilot agent file tool calls and Working Set entries.
• Fixed newly created customizations not appearing after adding a module to an open project.
• Fixed the initial blank Copilot agent chat not applying an available enterprise-managed default model after settings loaded, while preserving explicit model selections.
• Restored the IntelliJ IDEA MCP Server entry in Customizations on IntelliJ IDEA 2026.3 EAP.
• Fixed Settings remaining open when opening MCP configuration files in JetBrains IDEs 2026.2 and later.
• Fixed the horizontal scrollbar intercepting clicks on model groups near the bottom of Manage Models.
• Fixed organization agents, skills, and instructions not refreshing in Customizations when their cached content changed outside the IDE.
• Removed edit and delete actions from organization-managed custom agents.
• Fixed Copilot agent sessions ignoring MCP servers configured in a repository-root .mcp.json file.
• Made Stored Memory tool-call details expandable and removed empty (no input) placeholders.
• Restored Diff, Undo, and Apply actions for Working Set files referenced with different letter casing on case-insensitive filesystems.
• Fixed applying worktree changes back to WSL projects on Windows.
• Fixed Copy Changes hiding local edits or changing staged files when creating a Copilot CLI worktree, including when creation was cancelled.
• Fixed cancelled worktree creation leaving temporary worktrees and branches, showing a creation failure, or triggering an intermittent IDE error when using Go Back.

Changed

• Support for JetBrains IDE 2025.1 will soon come to an end. GitHub Copilot now requires JetBrains IDE 2025.2 or later. Please refer to this blog post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/github-copilot-support-ending-for-jetbrains-2025-1-x/

We hope you like Copilot for JetBrains, and please share feedback with us at any time!

You can fill in a private survey here: https://aka.ms/ghcp-jb-survey, with an optional paid interview, or directly submit an issue (bug or feature request) at https://github.com/microsoft/copilot-intellij-feedback/issues. Thank you so much!

I might just be dumb, but I can't figure out how to increase the font size. There's definitely an option in the regular AI Chat window, but I can't find it in the new layout. And the miniscule size of the chat text is absolutely killing me. (I'm using Webstorm 2026.2.3)