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Kiro Cli not working in IntelliJ jetbrains #3808

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Operating system

macOS 26.2.0 (25C56)

Expected behaviour

Kiro Cli should work in Intelli J just like terminal outside intelli J

Actual behaviour

Its giving me this error:

✘ Kiro CLI terminal integrations: Kiro CLI can not run in a process it launched


✘ Doctor found errors. Please fix them and try again.

when I run kiro-cli doctor

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[q-details]
version = "2.3.0"
hash = "a44742ad7a3acc79eac7459c2986103a8ad2b756"
date = "2026-05-07T04:41:43.294532Z (14d ago)"
variant = "full"

[system-info]
os = "macOS 26.2.0 (25C56)"
chip = "Apple M4 Pro"
total-cores = 14
memory = "24.00 GB"

[environment]
cwd = "/Users/USER"
cli-path = "/Users/USER"
os = "Mac"
shell-path = "/bin/zsh"
shell-version = "5.9"
terminal = "IDEA Ultimate"
install-method = "brew"

[env-vars]
PATH = "/Users/USER/.sdkman/candidates/java/current/bin:/Users/USER/.rd/bin:/Users/USER/.nvm/versions/node/v24.12.0/bin:/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/System/Cryptexes/App/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/local/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/bin:/var/run/com.apple.security.cryptexd/codex.system/bootstrap/usr/appleinternal/bin:/opt/pmk/env/global/bin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/Users/USER/.local/bin:/Users/USER/.orbstack/bin:/Users/USER/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Toolbox/scripts:/Users/USER/.safe-chain/bin"
PROCESS_LAUNCHED_BY_Q = "1"
Q_SET_PARENT_CHECK = "1"
SHELL = "/bin/zsh"
TERM = "xterm-256color"
__CFBundleIdentifier = "com.jetbrains.intellij"

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