# Plugin development - How do you get a license for your own yet to be released plugin for development environment?

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**Category:** IntelliJ Platform\
**Created:** [July 30, 2026, 10:35am UTC](https://platform.jetbrains.com/t/plugin-development-how-do-you-get-a-license-for-your-own-yet-to-be-released-plugin-for-development-environment/4757 "2026-07-30T10:35:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![momomo.com](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/platform.jetbrains.com/momomo.com/32/3280_2.png) [@momomo.com](https://platform.jetbrains.com/u/momomo.com)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 10:35am UTC](https://platform.jetbrains.com/t/plugin-development-how-do-you-get-a-license-for-your-own-yet-to-be-released-plugin-for-development-environment/4757/1 "2026-07-30T10:35:48Z")

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Struggling a bit since the only way I know now is to removed the

\<product-descriptor … /\>

from the plugin.xml but that is also very risk if I am to keep doing that in the future … or maybe i just need to do it until i upload the plugin the first time ?

Is there a good way to circumvent this in sandbox environent?

Not using gradle!

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**Author:** ![jonathanlermitage.1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jonathanlermitage.1](https://platform.jetbrains.com/u/jonathanlermitage.1)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 2:10pm UTC](https://platform.jetbrains.com/t/plugin-development-how-do-you-get-a-license-for-your-own-yet-to-be-released-plugin-for-development-environment/4757/2 "2026-07-30T14:10:54Z")

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I personally generated coupons for free licenses for my plugins. I use them in my dev environment. Do this from your plugin page / sales / coupons.  
In practice, when running an IDE in sandboxed mode, I register my license once, and I’m good for the next times. Also, I don’t clear the sandboxed IDE’s config dir, otherwise I’ll have to register my license again.

I can’t say for integration tests.