[FEATURE] JetBrains plugin should support pasting/dragging images into the embedded terminal, parity with VS Code extension.

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened May 11, 2026 by emersonjds Closed Jun 12, 2026

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Problem Statement

In VSCode there's an extremely useful feature: taking a screenshot of an image and dragging it to the integrated terminal with Claude enabled. This allows the terminal to read the image stored in memory and perform the requested action.

When I drag an image to WebStorm, this doesn't happen...

It would be extremely important for this to work...

VSCode <br />
<img width="1225" height="980" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/af19bff6-e66a-4568-ac0a-1d4dea2016c7" />
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Drag and Drop
<img width="1229" height="977" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6658b93e-f7d5-436a-ac1f-a0058c30bbc3" />
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<img width="1214" height="976" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6d0daf42-d055-48ce-9a79-fb127d836944" />
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Web Storm

<img width="1075" height="1007" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bcaa3a2a-54b7-45e0-93c4-0677c92b4405" />

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<img width="1305" height="781" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cc15ecfd-a65d-4beb-b0d4-237d3ca81ba2" />
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Terrible developer experience on web storm ...

Proposed Solution

Enable the WebStorm extension to function similarly to VS Code, where I can drag and drop an image or screenshot and Claude automatically recognizes it as being in memory and reads that image for interpretation.

Alternative Solutions

The solution that exists today is to save the image somewhere and ask Claude to go there and read that image, so that's already two steps breaking the usability experience of the tool for the developer...

Priority

High - Significant impact on productivity

Feature Category

CLI commands and flags

Use Case Example

I work as a front-end developer, and in many cases it's easier to show an image than to explain the entire context to the agent. Adding images for easy reference greatly simplifies bug resolution.

Additional Context

There is the possibility of batch loading images in VSCode, and this greatly simplifies the agent's understanding of the context of the workflow they are working with. Implementing this feature would solve all the problems...

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