VCS access from Jetbrains Client

[yuriy.artamonov]

It is expected that VCS plugin APIs are not present in JetBrains Client as in remote development an IDE is a distributed system.

Please start with this template:

GitHub - JetBrains/intellij-platform-modular-plugin-template: An example of a...

and checkout response from our team:

Questions on V2 plugin descriptor

Hi Joachim! All the features mentioned in this doc about v2 (modular) plugins except required-if-available should work in 2025.2. required-if-available attribute is supported starting with 2025.3. Actually, it wasn’t necessary to use package attribute even in 2025.2. If you don’t specify it and register content modules in plugin.xml via content tag, they should work. It isn’t necessary to keep modules in separate packages even in 2025.2. If you don’t specify package attribute, the IDE will ass…

Also this video should clarify things

Making an IntelliJ Plugin Remote Development-friendly