If you're anything like me, you have more than one Claude Code account. A personal Claude Max subscription. A madewithlove team account for client work. Maybe even a dedicated client instance.

That means logging in and out a lot. Claude Code, by default, stores everything in a single ~/.claude/ directory. That's great when you have one account, but gets messy if you have more than one. You don't want to share your CLAUDE.md for each of these accounts, for example.

Running Claude Code on multiple machines comes with a similar problem: you have to start over. That great set of skills that's on your laptop doesn't live on your desktop.

You could solve this with a simple dotfiles approach, but you don't want to share everything that's in the ~/.claude folder. Mixing caches and plans really messes up Claude's memory. Syncing auth information probably gets you banned.

So, a few months ago, I built Jean-Claude, a companion for Claude to sync across machines. A dotfiles setup, but opinionated. It doesn't share everything, but only the things that matter.

A few days ago, after a conversation with Wouter Sioen​, I added profiles to Jean-Claude. It's an easy way to create aliases for different Claude accounts. For example, I have my regular `claude` command for my personal Max account and a `claude-mwl` for the madewithlove Claude team account. Jean-Claude also makes sure the (opinionated) right things get shared. The skills and agents in one account are automatically usable in the other.  The CLAUDE.MD isn't, as that is most likely very different per client.

Now, a conversation with Jonas Drieghe​ triggered an idea about having both Claude accounts have a different accent color.

I didn't add that to Jean Claude (yet), but once the alias has been created, I asked Claude to adapt it so it looked like this:

alias claude-mwl='CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR="/Users/mike/.claude-mwl" claude -e "/color red"'

It triggers the /color slash command as a first statement when opening Claude Code. Now, my personal and madewithlove accounts are both visibly different.

Since more of us are using multiple accounts on multiple machines, I felt like sharing this. If that is something you think you could use, check out Jean-Claude.

Feedback is very welcome.

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