| name | icon-resources |
| description | Work with IntelliJ icon resources, generated *Icons.java classes, icon-robots.txt rules, IconLoader wrappers, or CommunityIconClassesTest failures. |
Icon Resources
Use this skill when adding, renaming, moving, deleting, or referencing icons under a Java resource root, or when a failure mentions generated icon classes or icon-robots.txt.
Generated Icon Classes
- Icons under resource roots are normally represented by generated
*Icons.java classes.
- Do not add local
IconLoader.getIcon(...) wrappers for icons that should be in a generated icon class. Use the generated field directly from production code and tests.
- If an icon should intentionally be excluded from class generation, add or update an
icon-robots.txt rule near the icon resources instead of creating an ad hoc loader.
- Generated classes include cache keys derived from normalized SVG content. Do not guess cache keys.
How To Update
- Prefer running the IDE run configuration
Icons processing | Generate icon classes when available.
- If the run configuration is unavailable, run the icon-class test and apply the exact generated diff it prints for the affected class:
./tests.cmd --module intellij.platform.images.build.tests --test org.jetbrains.intellij.build.images.CommunityIconClassesTest
- After applying the generated output, rerun the same test to confirm there are no stale generated icon classes.
- Also run the affected module tests or compilation for production call-site changes; the icon-class test validates generated files but does not necessarily compile every icon consumer.
Bazel Status
As of this guide, icon class generation is not exposed as a Bazel runnable target. The package @community//platform/build-scripts/icons contains library and test targets, but no binary target:
bazel query 'kind(".*binary.*", @community//platform/build-scripts/icons:all)'
Use Bazel-backed tests.cmd for verification. If a generator binary target is added later, prefer that documented Bazel target over the IDE run configuration.
