Intellij Plugin] A Plugin cannot find calude installation already installed in system path.

[KyongSik-Yoon]

Bug Description

Intellij plugin cannnot recognize claude code installed in system path. claude can execute every path because it's there in system path. But when I click claude extension icon in Intellij always shown error notification with following message.

Please ensure Claude Code is installed and the 'claude' command is in your system path.

Environment Info

Platform: Ubuntu 24.04 
Terminal: Intellij

Notifiaction

Terminal in Intellij

[jwjoel]

Same here

[skhattane]

Same here Claude Code not found: Please ensure Claude Code is installed and the 'claude' command is in your system path.

Archlinux 2025.05.01 GoLand 2025.1.1 Kitty 0.42.1 Claude Code 1.0.3

[AleMac17]

Same here

Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon IntelliJ IDEA 2025.1.1.1 (Community Edition)

I fixed it by making a symlink

Claude was installing on the path where I have node, but I made it so intellij can see it from the path he uses.

In my case i use this sudo ln -s /home/user/.nvm/versions/node/v20.17.0/bin/claude /usr/local/bin/claude

To see where your node global folder is (the first path of the command)

npm prefix -g

[AshiqPranto]

Is this free?

[hackyon-anthropic]

Apologies for the excessive notifications!

We reworked the detection mechanism for the next plugin update, and also provided a way for you to configure the path to the claude command in the settings. The update is coming soon!

[hackyon-anthropic]

Thanks for your patience!

With the latest plugin update v0.1.6-beta, we have reworked the notification to show up significantly less. When you press the Claude button, it will wait for 10s for a connection and show the notification only after it fails to connect.

Please let us know if you still see any issues with the latest update!

[KyongSik-Yoon]

@hackyon-anthropic It's working perfectly!! Thanks for super fast release.

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