# Share a detekt HTML Report — Kotlin Findings Somebody Else Can Open

Canonical: https://commareports.com/share-detekt-report
Published: 2026-08-30

> detekt writes build/reports/detekt/detekt.html and Gradle promptly buries it. Publish the report to Comma for a URL where each finding gets a thread and a decision.

# Share a detekt report

detekt's HTML reporter produces something genuinely readable — findings
grouped by rule set, with the offending Kotlin inline. Then Gradle drops it
in `build/reports/detekt/detekt.html`, the build fails, and the team's entire
experience of the report is the one-line Gradle summary.

## Enable the reporter, publish the file

```kotlin
// build.gradle.kts
tasks.withType<io.gitlab.arturbosch.detekt.Detekt>().configureEach {
    reports {
        html.required.set(true)
        sarif.required.set(true)
    }
}
```

```bash
./gradlew detekt

curl -fsS -X PATCH "https://commareports.com/api/v1/reports/$REPORT_ID" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COMMA_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "$(jq -n --rawfile html build/reports/detekt/detekt.html \
        --arg title "detekt — $GITHUB_SHA" '{title: $title, html: $html}')"
```

Or just drag the file into [the app](https://commareports.com/) when you only
need it once.

detekt fails the build past its threshold, so guard the publish step with
`if: always()` — otherwise you publish only the builds nobody needs to read.

## Why publish instead of screenshot

Static analysis produces two kinds of finding, and only a human can sort them:

- **Anchored threads** on the finding — "suppressing this,
  `ComplexMethod` on the parser is deliberate" — see
  [commenting on HTML](/comment-on-html). The reasoning ends up attached to
  the finding rather than in a PR thread nobody will find again.
- **Revisions** — one report id per module, one revision per build. Baseline
  regenerations become visible movement.
- **Access per report** — private, team, domain-gated, or named reviewers.
  See the [sharing model](/docs/sharing).

## Limits

- **Entry HTML: 5 MB.** Assets: 25 MB per file, 250 MB and 500 files total.
- **60 requests/minute per token.**

## Try it

Comma is free — unlimited reports, unlimited commenters, unlimited revision
history.

**[Publish a detekt report →](https://commareports.com/)**

### Related

- [Share a SpotBugs report](/share-spotbugs-report) · [Share a Checkstyle report](/share-checkstyle-report)
- [Share a JaCoCo report](/share-jacoco-report) · [Share a Gradle test report](/share-gradle-test-report)
- [Share a PIT mutation report](/share-pitest-report) · [Publish from CI](/docs/ci)