[FEATURE] Native support for multiple accounts

[danielrosehill]

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• [x] This is a single feature request (not multiple features)

Problem Statement

I use Claude Code both for personal projects and for a client.

I maintain two paid accounts:

• My own (Claude Max 200)
• The client's

Sometimes I work for several hours on the client's site and manually change between subscriptions. To avoid cutting into my own weekly allowance, I manually change accounts before and after the process.

But currently the process for doing this is cumbersome:

I need to log out, log in, reauthorize with the new browser credential and then repeat the process when switching back.

Proposed Solution

Before talking about better "quality of life" solutions I think the core realisation has to be that there are legitimate reasons why users might hold multiple subs. At one time, I had three (personal, consultancy, client A).

Users who do pay concurrent subs should not have to jump through hoops or add on third-party tooling just to achieve a basic account switching functionality.

It would be much more pragmatic for the CLI to be able to hold a couple of authentications in memory such that every account change did not require a new authentication flow (and the issuance of a new API key).

To support the needs of multi-account users, it would be also very helpful to have account labeling. I could label my auth tokens Personal and ACME, for example.

Generally, I'm working in one specific repository for the client. So being able to define an account param that's repo-bound would also be a very elegant fix.

Alternative Solutions

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Priority

Critical - Blocking my work

Feature Category

CLI commands and flags

Use Case Example

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Additional Context

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Found 3 possible duplicate issues:

1. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/261
2. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/1993
3. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/3835

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