claude-multiprofile

claude-multiprofile

Run multiple Claude accounts side by side. Personal, work, clients. Claude Desktop and Claude Code. No more signing out of one account to use another.

Each profile gets its own login, chats, settings, MCP servers, plugins and skills, and its own Dock icon and terminal command:

- Desktop and Code, separately or together. Desktop profiles need macOS; Code profiles work on macOS and Linux.
- Your existing Claude is untouched. Profiles sit alongside it.
- doctor keeps it working. Claude updates itself, shells change, launchers get re-pinned. doctor finds what drifted, including a profile quietly open on the wrong account, and doctor --fix repairs what it safely can.
See it in action: examples/walkthrough.md, a full session showing every prompt and output.
Disclaimer. This is an unofficial community tool. It uses public Electron flags (--user-data-dir) and a stable but undocumented Claude Code environment variable (CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR) to keep profiles isolated. Anthropic engineers have engaged on the open feature requests for native multi-account in both apps, so the approach is well known, but it is not officially supported. If a future Claude release changes how profiles work, this tool will need to catch up.

Why this exists

Claude Desktop and Claude Code both assume a single signed-in account. There's no built-in profile switcher today (open feature requests: Desktop, Desktop UI). The standard workaround is a manual setup:

- For Desktop, launch with open -n -a "Claude" --args --user-data-dir=... against a custom data folder
- For Code, set CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR=... before running claude

Both work. Both are fiddly to set up and easy to mess up. This tool automates the whole thing, including the things people forget:

- Generating a real macOS .app…