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"Kiro CLI terminal integrations: Kiro CLI can not run in a process it launched" error in JetBrains IDEA terminal #3662

@fhperuchi

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@fhperuchi

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Operating system

macOS 26.3.0 (25D125)

Expected behaviour

For this to auto-complete aws commands correctly.

Actual behaviour

It does not trigger the auto-complete in the JetBrains IDEA Ultimate IDE below:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3.3
Build #IU-253.31033.145, built on February 20, 2026
Source revision: 212d61deaf3a8
Licensed to OpenVPN Inc / Fabio Peruchi
You have a perpetual fallback license for this version.
Subscription is active until January 22, 2027.
Runtime version: 21.0.10+7-b1163.108 aarch64 (JCEF 137.0.17)
VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o.
Toolkit: sun.lwawt.macosx.LWCToolkit
macOS 26.3
$ kiro-cli doctor

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


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

If you are not sure how to fix it, please open an issue with kiro-cli issue to let us know!
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Steps to reproduce

This to auto-complete any aws command parameter.

Environment

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[q-details]
version = "1.27.0"
hash = "b9a4c4fd6bc4a3a624e0b2e03722a388fe28a8fe"
date = "2026-02-27T21:23:15.985051Z (5d ago)"
variant = "full"

[system-info]
os = "macOS 26.3.0 (25D125)"
chip = "Apple M1 Max"
total-cores = 10
memory = "32.00 GB"

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

[env-vars]
DISPLAY = "/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.Wpy8l1y9Y1/org.xquartz:0"
PATH = "/Users/USER/source/go/pkg/mod/golang.org/toolchain@v0.0.1-go1.25.5.darwin-arm64/bin:/Users/USER/source/go/bin:/Users/USER/.pyenv/versions/3.14.0/bin/.venv/bin:/Users/USER/bin:/Users/USER/.pyenv/shims:/Users/USER/bin/:/Users/USER/.nvm/versions/node/v24.0.0/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:/opt/X11/bin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin:/usr/local/MacGPG2/bin:/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Public:/usr/local/go/bin:/Users/USER/.volta/bin:/Users/USER/.cargo/bin:/Users/USER/.local/bin:/Users/USER/source/go/bin:/Users/USER/source/bitbucket.org/openvpntechnologies/ops_scripts/tools/:/opt/puppetlabs/bolt/bin:/Users/USER/.virtualenvs/openvpn:/Users/USER/.lmstudio/bin"
PROCESS_LAUNCHED_BY_Q = "1"
Q_SET_PARENT_CHECK = "1"
SHELL = "/bin/zsh"
TERM = "xterm-256color"
__CFBundleIdentifier = "com.jetbrains.intellij"

I am using the Reworked terminal, as you can see below:

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