Comment of exported element starts with the incorrect name

Reports comments that do not start with the name of the exported element.

According to Comment Sentences at github.com/golang, this is a convention to begin a comment with the name of the exported element.

Example:

// represents a request to run a command.
type Request struct {}

// Request represents a request to run a command.
type Request struct {} // better

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

GoCommentStart

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Go | Code style issues

Inspection ID: GoCommentStart

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection GoCommentStart

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

GoLand 2026.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	GoLand 2026.2, Qodana for Go 2026.2,

Last modified: 30 June 2026