No retention at all seems much smarter, because then it wouldn't be neccessary to have the lombok.jar in the deployment path of whatever you write WITH lombok, which is a good idea.

Though - rewriting to e.g. a Lombok.sneakyThrow() call would require lombok.jar anyway. We'll cross that bridge when we get there.

src/lombok/Getter.java

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
 import java.lang.annotation.Target;
 
 @Target(ElementType.FIELD)
-@Retention(RetentionPolicy.CLASS)
+@Retention(RetentionPolicy.SOURCE)
 public @interface Getter {
 	AccessLevel value() default lombok.AccessLevel.PUBLIC;
 }