IntelliJ IDEA Plugin

Requirements

• IntelliJ IDEA 2025.1 or newer.
• Elide installed (Installation).
• A JDK registered in the IDE, for JVM projects.

Install

In Settings → Plugins → ⚙ → Manage Plugin Repositories, add:

https://plugins.elide.dev/intellij

Install Elide from the Marketplace tab and restart the IDE. Install Pkl from the same repository for completion and inspections in elide.pkl.

Import a project

Open a directory that contains elide.pkl (Projects). The plugin links it and syncs in the background.

• Each source set becomes a module; dependencies become libraries with sources attached.
• The project SDK is the JDK for jvm.target, or the newest installed JDK.
• Editing elide.pkl or the lockfile prompts a reload.

The Elide tool window lists linked projects and has the reload actions.

Run

Create an Elide run configuration. Its command line takes anything the CLI accepts, with completion:

run
test -t 'MyTest'
serve --port 8080
run app.js -- --flag-for-the-program

Run and debug icons appear on jvm.main, entrypoint and scripts entries in elide.pkl, on main functions, and on JUnit tests. Run Anything (double Ctrl) also accepts elide ….

Debug

Debug on a run configuration adds --debugger and attaches the IDE’s JVM debugger. To debug tests, run elide test --debugger and attach a Remote JVM Debug configuration to localhost:5005. See Debugging.

Choose an Elide install

Settings → Build, Execution, Deployment → Build Tools → Elide sets Elide distribution to Auto-detect or a custom path. Auto-detect checks $ELIDE_HOME, then: