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# Running multiple Claude accounts without logging out
- URL: https://madewithlove.com/blog/running-multiple-claude-accounts-without-logging-out/
- Published: 2026-03-26T09:47:52.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-18T06:56:10.000Z
- Description: Managing multiple Claude Code accounts across machines gets messy fast. Jean-Claude keeps the useful parts in sync, separates account-specific config, and makes switching between personal, team, and client setups far less painful.
- Author: Mike Veerman
- Tags: AI, AI Agents, AI development, Claude, Tooling, Developer experience

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](http://github.com/MikeVeerman/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](https://madewithlove.com/blog/author/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](https://madewithlove.com/blog/author/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](http://github.com/MikeVeerman/jean-claude).

Feedback is very welcome.

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