Claude Desktop tried running run config for web api, but one was already running and intellij just ran another one and port clashed.

[maxhillaert]

Context:

Testing capabilities of MCP Server via Claude Desktop on a blank gradle project open in IntelliJ.
Aim is to get to through an inner-dev loop developing a web api i.e. restructure project into multi-module gradle, write and running tests, run web api and check output in headless browser using playwright MCP.

Problem:

I had pre-created a run config to run a web api on port 8080. Claude had succesfully started it earlier. I asked it to make some changes which it did. It then tried to run it again, but instead of restarting the existing one, it just started the next one, which failed becaue of port clash, but claude thought it worked. It then checked with playwright, but got into confusion why it wasn't working.

Proposed:
We need to expose running run configs via MCP and their state?
Add a restart function ?