JetBrains (IntelliJ, GoLand, PyCharm, ...)

There is no Skep JetBrains plugin. Like with VS Code, the JetBrains integration is a CLI-adjacent workflow built around the IDE’s terminal tool window.

Setup

1. Install your IDE. Any recent JetBrains IDE with the Terminal tool window works — GoLand for Go, IntelliJ IDEA for JVM, PyCharm for Python, etc.
2. Install Claude Code so claude is available on PATH from the IDE terminal. See Changelog for the current list of wired backends.
3. Register the Skep MCP server once, globally:

   skep mcp install

Workflow

• Open the project in your JetBrains IDE.
• Open the Terminal tool window (Alt+F12 on most platforms).
• Run skep task create, skep tasks, skep task approve N, etc. directly in that terminal.
• For the cockpit, open an external terminal next to the IDE and run:

  tmux new -s work
  skep workspace watch

  Task panes spawned by daemons will land in that external tmux session, not inside the IDE’s terminal tool window.

Optional: File Watchers on save

The JetBrains File Watchers plugin can trigger skep index on save for extra-paranoid setups where fsnotify isn’t reliable:

• Program: skep
• Arguments: index
• File type: source files only
• Filter: exclude .skep/ and .git/ so you don’t feedback-loop

Most users don’t need this — Skep already watches files via fsnotify.

Caveats

• No native plugin yet. If you want one, file an issue; the socket protocol is stable enough to wrap.
• The IDE terminal is a plain shell, not tmux. The cockpit belongs in an external terminal emulator.