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- And knowing Anthropic being developer friendly we can expect them to ban this in 3... 2...by mlitwiniuk
- Is this safe to use? as some print from other accounts may leak and will it not harm the accounts?by kingzabbu
- I use the Claude Code desktop app for work, and the CLI for personal, so I'm always logged into both accounts!by pwython
- don't people get banned for doing this kind of thing?by baron3dl
- If it's honestly 'One account is paid for by my employer and used as a tool for my job' and 'One account is for personal use, where I work on passion-projects and the likes' I think it's fine....? Not a lawyer but I'd assume as long as you're not using it to bypass usage limits Anthropic wouldn't even really notice or care.by dpoloncsak
- A lot of them also don’t get banned, right ? There are vibecoders youtubers switching accounts all the time
So what’s the differenve ?
by ttoinou - The threat of account bans and a less than friendly appeal system does make me wary of trying it, even though this would be incredibly useful.by rew0rk
- Or use https://omp.sh and add multiple accounts. omp tracks usage and when limit is reached it uses the next account.by bdemirkir
- Sadly incompatible with Claude subs.by AlexErrant
- Try https://www.onorca.dev/ too very goodby kn9
- I built the same thing for myself, but I like your implementation so much better.by hmokiguess
- Cool but I would like to reuse my entire account directory and just switch accounts and nothing else. Now I just do `/logout` and then go through the login flow again because I don't want to lose access to all memories and transcripts.
Is that supported?
by pdimitar - No, I kept the whole CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR isolated because I didn’t want it to directly copying or replacing Claude’s credential files. It felt too easy to get wrongby hamza_rehman
- Can you be logged into two accounts at once? It's not the switching, but the different sessions on different accounts that I find myself doing.
As some have said, easy enough to build yourself, but I think it' nice not to have to test it and make sure it works.
by lukasco - Yes, you can, just need to set a separate config dir. I have the below in my zshrc.
alias claude-personal='CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR=~/.claude-personal claude'
by spk_ - Yep, that’s supported. Switching only affects newly started Claude processes, so you can keep work open in one terminal and personal in another using claude accountby hamza_rehman
- Does it share the global ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md file? For some use case I'd like that, for others it could be problematic.by dotancohen
- Is it even safe to switch accounts frequently? worried about them imposing a ban
- I use this: https://gist.github.com/KMJ-007/0979814968722051620461ab2aa0...
Simple and works great but requires one alias per account
by pandoro - simple and easy - thank youby orliesaurus
- This is great. My enhancement was to create a .claude-profile file which specifies the account alias. "claude" can be aliased to read the file, set the correct env var, and launch claude.
Another benefit was if no .claude-profile file exists, claude refuses to launch.
by cowlby - appreciate you building this! I have two Claude max accounts. The way I do it is that I have two app launchers (claude desktop). I use the desktop app and a different data directory for each launcher like `open -n -a /Applications/Claude.app --args --user-data-dir="<its profile directory>"`. I got my first Claude to make me two different launchers for the two apps, and it's been working perfectly. wdyt?
The only problem I've noticed is with Claude in Chrome. It seems to not work well in the second account. And this makes sense because it was designed just for one app. Do you find yourself having the same problem with this setup? have you tried the second one with the Claude in Chrome ext?
by carloslfu