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Claude Code runs tools and shell commands on your behalf. Launched from a terminal, the CLI inherits your shell environment and everything just works. But under Claude Desktop, Claude Code is spawned from a GUI/desktop session that never sourced your interactive shell config—so if you rely on version managers like mise, asdf, or nix, the tools they install may not be on Claude’s PATH. The fix is a single setting: CLAUDE_ENV_FILE.

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