Restart?

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& this issue everyting when it's trying to read an image

By restart, they just mean Close the Claude command and reopen it. This does not mean you need to restart your machine, just Claude.

Under the hood they are just rerunning the npm install command again.

More details here: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/141#issuecomment-2685512923

Yep! Just type exit or quit, or press ctrl+c or ctrl+d twice.

@bcherny the message here is quite unclear as to what needs to be restarted, so perhaps that is the fix here?

especially you come here if the message sticks after a couple restarts of the cli ;)

not only that, I've tried restarting the session, restarting WSL and the message still shows

Working on improving reliability for this!

@bcherny any workarounds? I've tried npm update -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code without success - and for the record, rebooting MacOS also didn't help 😅

Try uninstalling then re-installing

@mraesener-aubex maybe you initially installed with pnpm or something else? If that is the case you will need to rerun the the pnpm install or whatever command you used when originally installing.

Otherwise you may be updating things in npm but then running the old one that was installed via pnpm. That was the case when I had this problem.

@gerrywastaken thx for the hint - indeed somehow the claude binary was in homebrew's folder even though brew list didn't show it ... and I could install things with npm install -g but the bin folder wasn't in my PATH

long story short: it's working now and the root cause is fixed

Awesome, glad you got it sorted 👍

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