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Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again

#1

Post by hamza_rehman » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 2:58 PM UTC

I use separate Claude Code accounts for work and personal projects. Having to log out and go through the login flow every time I switched accounts became annoying, so I built a small CLI to solve it.

The commands are intentionally simple:

claude account add myworkaccount claude account add mypersonalaccount claude account use myworkaccount claude account current

After switching, Claude Code works normally:

claude claude "fix this bug in main.py" Repository: https://github.com/hamzarehmandeveloper/claude-account

Give it a try

Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again
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Re: Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again

#2

Post by pandoro » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 4:12 PM UTC

I use this: https://gist.github.com/KMJ-007/0979814968722051620461ab2aa0...

Simple and works great but requires one alias per account

Re: Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again

#3

Post by orliesaurus » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

pandoro wrote: post #2

I use this: https://gist.github.com/KMJ-007/0979814968722051620461ab2aa0... Simple and works great but requires one alias per account

simple and easy - thank you

Re: Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again

#4

Post by cowlby » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 4:25 PM UTC

pandoro wrote: post #2

I use this: https://gist.github.com/KMJ-007/0979814968722051620461ab2aa0... Simple and works great but requires one alias per account

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.

Re: Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again

#5

Post by bdemirkir » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 4:35 PM UTC

Or use https://omp.sh and add multiple accounts. omp tracks usage and when limit is reached it uses the next account.

Re: Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again

#6

Post by dotancohen » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 4:42 PM UTC

Does it share the global ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md file? For some use case I'd like that, for others it could be problematic.

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#7

Post by AlexErrant » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 4:45 PM UTC

bdemirkir wrote: post #5

Or use https://omp.sh and add multiple accounts. omp tracks usage and when limit is reached it uses the next account.

Sadly incompatible with Claude subs.

Re: Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again

#8

Post by cute_boi » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 4:47 PM UTC

dotancohen wrote: post #6

Does it share the global ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md file? For some use case I'd like that, for others it could be problematic.

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Re: Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again

#9

Post by brentmitchell25 » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 4:53 PM UTC

Another way for those who use mise. You can auto-switch accounts by directory:

~/development/account1/mise.toml:

[env]

CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR = "{{ env.HOME }}/.claude-account1"

Re: Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again

#10

Post by acuteaura » Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 5:04 PM UTC

revolutionary. you can do this with 2 lines of shell code.

i do this: https://github.com/acuteaura/universe/blob/main/overlays/cla...