VSCODE terminal can not run kiro-cli doctor

[travis-jorge]

Checks

• I have searched github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli/issues and there are no duplicates of my issue
• I have run q doctor in the affected terminal session
• I have run q restart and replicated the issue again

Operating system

macOS 26.5.0 (25F71)

Expected behaviour

run doctor and get results

Actual behaviour

kiro-cli doctor

✘ Qterm Socket Check: Socket exists but could not connect: Connection refused (os error 61)

✘ 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!

this only happens from vscode

Steps to reproduce

Open VSCODE
Open Terminal
Run Command

Environment

[q-details]
version = "2.7.0"
hash = "6f3383db48619edd44e2ff0cf08cc1c512908ddb"
date = "2026-06-12T06:51:36.02501Z (2d ago)"
variant = "full"

[system-info]
os = "macOS 26.5.0 (25F71)"
chip = "Apple M5 Max"
total-cores = 18
memory = "128.00 GB"

[environment]
cli-path = "/Users/USER/src/eco/eco-cluster-tfmodule"
os = "Mac"
shell-path = "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/bash/5.3.15/bin/bash"
shell-version = "5.3.15"
terminal = "VSCode"
install-method = "brew"

[env-vars]
PATH = "/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:/pkg/env/global/bin:/Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/Resources/utilities:/Users/USER/.local/bin:/Users/USER/.local/bin:/Users/USER/.local/bin"
QTERM_SESSION_ID = "6e4b5218a3b448008fa3edf84bb9a87e"
Q_SET_PARENT_CHECK = "1"
Q_TERM = "2.7.0"
SHELL = "/opt/homebrew/bin/bash"
TERM = "xterm-256color"
__CFBundleIdentifier = "com.microsoft.VSCode"