Use plugin with a dockerized claude

[ppechkurov]

Hi! I'm running my Claude Code inside a container. Is there a way to wire it up with Neovim, running on a host machine?

Thanks!

[Cannon07]

Thanks for the interest! This isn't officially supported yet, but it should be possible if you can bridge the Neovim socket into the container.

The plugin communicates with Neovim via Unix socket RPC (nvim --server --remote-expr). For a dockerized setup, you'd need to:

1. Bind-mount the host Neovim socket into the container (e.g., -v /tmp/nvim.user/0:/tmp/nvim.user/0)
2. Ensure jq and nvim are available inside the container (the hook scripts shell out to both)
3. Mount or install the plugin's bin/ directory so the hooks can access apply-edit.lua and the shell scripts

The tricky part is that nvim-socket.sh discovers the socket by scanning /tmp and /run — you'd need the mounted socket path to match one of those scan locations.

If you've got a specific Docker setup in mind, feel free to share the details and I can help figure out the exact configuration.
This could also be a good candidate for a docs section if we get a working recipe.