GitHub - hamzarehmandeveloper/claude-account: Switch between isolated Claude Code accounts on Linux without logging in again.

A Linux-only profile switcher for Claude Code. It gives Claude Code an isolated CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR for each account and transparently forwards normal commands to the official Claude executable. claude account add work claude account add personal claude account use work claude account list claude account current claude account remove personal

claude claude "fix this bug in main.py" Claude Code itself performs login, logout, credential storage, and token refresh. claude-account never reads or copies credential contents. ImportantThis is an independent community project. It is not made, endorsed, or supported by Anthropic. Claude and Claude Code are products of Anthropic.

Requirements

Linux A working Claude Code installation Rust 1.85 or later to build from source

Install a release Download claude-account-v0.1.1-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz and its .sha256 file from the latest release, then verify and install it: sha256sum --check claude-account-v0.1.1-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz.sha256 tar -xzf claude-account-v0.1.1-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz ./claude-account install The installer prints one export PATH=... line. Add that line to ~/.bashrc and open a new terminal. The shim lives in its own directory; it does not replace the official Claude executable. Confirm the installation: type -a claude claude account list The claude-account shim should appear before the official Claude executable. Build from source git clone https://github.com/hamzarehmandeveloper/claude-account.git cd claude-account cargo build --locked --release ./target/release/claude-account install Commands Add an account claude account add work claude account add personal --email you@example.com claude account add company --sso claude account add api-billing --console This opens Claude Code's official login flow. The first profile becomes active. Adding another profile does not switch the active profile. The command also completes Claude Code's local onboarding state, so the next claude launch uses the saved login without asking you to authenticate again. Switch accounts claude account use work Switching affects newly launched Claude processes. Existing sessions keep the account with which they were started. Inspect profiles claude account list claude account current current prints only the profile name, making it safe to use in scripts. Remove an account claude account remove personal This runs Claude Code's official auth logout inside the profile and unregisters it. Settings and session history are preserved, allowing the same profile name to reuse them later. To delete all local data belonging to the profile: claude account remove personal --purge --yes Removing the active profile is refused unless --force is supplied. --purge permanently deletes that profile's settings, sessions, plugins, and history in addition to its stored login. Get help claude account --help claude account add --help claude account remove --help All non-account commands and flags are passed unchanged to the official Claude executable: claude claude -p "explain this project" claude --model opus claude auth status --text Storage By default: ~/.config/claude-account/state.json ~/.local/share/claude-account/profiles/<name>/ ~/.local/share/claude-account/bin/claude ~/.local/share/claude-account/libexec/claude-account

The standard XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME variables are respected. CLAUDE_ACCOUNT_HOME can place all application data under one absolute directory, which is especially useful for tests. The state file contains profile names, directory paths, and the real Claude executable path. It never contains access or refresh tokens. Authentication environment variables To guarantee that the selected profile is actually used, the wrapper removes these variables from the child Claude process:

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN

Set CLAUDE_ACCOUNT_PRESERVE_AUTH_ENV=1 if you intentionally want those variables to override profile authentication. Development cargo fmt --check cargo test --locked --all-targets cargo clippy --locked --all-targets -- -D warnings See CONTRIBUTING.md for the contribution workflow and SECURITY.md for private vulnerability reporting. License Released under the MIT License.