Switchboard for Claude Code
Several Claude Code accounts. One editor. Always know how much you have left.
Switch accounts per window or per repository, and see each account's 5-hour and 7-day plan limits right in the status bar.
Why Switchboard
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| One account per window |
Work and personal side by side, in two windows, at the same time. |
| Remembers each repo |
Open a repository and its account is applied for you. |
| Plan limits at a glance |
5-hour and 7-day usage for every account, before you hit the wall. |
Your ~/.claude stays untouched |
It becomes the Default account and is never moved, deleted or overwritten. |
Get started in a minute
- Click Claude: default in the status bar → Add account…
- Name it and choose a profile:
- Shared: reuses your settings,
CLAUDE.md, agents, skills and plugins and keeps its own login.
- Isolated: everything separate.
- Choose Log in. A terminal opens and runs
claude auth login for that account.
- Switch any time from the status bar. The window reloads so Claude Code picks up the change.
Run /status in the Claude Code panel to confirm which account is active.
Features
Accounts
- Per-window accounts that run at the same time
- Default account per repository, keyed by its git remote, so every clone shares it
- Rules: every repo under
~/work/**, or from github.com/my-company/*, uses a given account
- Quick toggle between the last two accounts:
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A (Cmd+Alt+Shift+A on macOS)
- The integrated terminal's
claude CLI uses the same account as the panel
Usage
- 5-hour and 7-day plan limits per account, in the status bar, tooltip and picker
- Tokens used today and over the last 7 days, from Claude Code's local logs
- When you hit a limit, Switchboard offers to switch to another account in one click
Personal touch
- E-mail, plan (e.g. Pro, Max 20x) and organization for each account
- Own color, icon or emoji, and optional picture per account
- Per-account environment variables, such as a default model or proxy, kept locally
- Settings Sync carries names, colors and repo defaults to your other machines. Logins stay local.
Settings
| Setting |
Default |
What it does |
claudeAccounts.scope |
workspace |
workspace: each window or repo remembers its account. user: one account everywhere. |
claudeAccounts.accountsRoot |
~/.claude-accounts |
Where account folders live. |
claudeAccounts.sharedItems |
settings, CLAUDE.md, agents… |
What shared-profile accounts reuse from ~/.claude. |
claudeAccounts.shareHistory |
false |
Shared conversation history. Change it with the Share history command so existing history is merged. |
claudeAccounts.historyItems |
projects, history.jsonl… |
What counts as history. |
claudeAccounts.autoApplyRepoDefault |
true |
Apply the repository's account when it opens. |
claudeAccounts.reloadBehavior |
ask |
Reload after switching: ask, always or never. |
claudeAccounts.applyToTerminal |
true |
Use the account in integrated terminals too. |
claudeAccounts.loginCommand |
claude auth login |
Command used to log in. |
claudeAccounts.statusBarStyle |
name |
name, initials or icon. |
claudeAccounts.showPlan |
true |
Show the plan name. |
claudeAccounts.rules |
[] |
Default-account rules, see below. |
claudeAccounts.suggestSwitchOnLimit |
true |
Offer a switch when you hit a limit. |
claudeAccounts.gravatar |
false |
Gravatar pictures in the picker. |
Rules
Rules are checked in order for any repository without its own default:
"claudeAccounts.rules": [
{ "pattern": "github.com/my-company/*", "account": "work" },
{ "pattern": "~/personal/**", "account": "Personal" }
]
A pattern that starts with ~, / or a drive letter matches the folder path. Anything else matches the git remote. * matches one segment and ** matches any depth. account is the account's id or its name.
How it works
Claude Code reads its configuration folder from CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR. Each account is a folder under ~/.claude-accounts/. Switchboard sets that variable for the window, and for its terminals, before Claude Code starts. That is why it activates on startup.
Shared items are links. On Windows, folders use junctions, which need no admin rights.
Known limitations
- Don't set
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR in claudeCode.environmentVariables. It overrides switching everywhere. Switchboard detects this and offers to remove it.
- If
/status shows the wrong account right after startup, reload the window once.
- If a tool replaces a shared file instead of editing it, the link breaks. Switchboard offers Relink and keeps a
.bak copy.
- On macOS, logins live in the Keychain, so the plan may not show.
- Plan limits and usage rely on undocumented Claude Code formats and may break after updates.
Privacy
- No telemetry. Nothing is collected about you.
- Plan limits. To read your limits, Switchboard takes the account's Claude Code login token from
.credentials.json and sends a one-token request to api.anthropic.com. The limits come from the response headers. The token goes only to Anthropic and is never stored or shown. Each check uses a tiny bit of your plan.
- Gravatar (off by default) sends a SHA-256 hash of the account's e-mail to gravatar.com.
Requirements
- VS Code 1.85+, or Cursor, VSCodium or Windsurf
- The official Claude Code extension
Credits
Switchboard is a fork of Multi-Account Switcher for Claude Code by Kahuê Costa, who built the account switching. The plan-limit display was inspired by Claude Status by Small Long and Claude Code Usage Bar by Vincenzo Vitale. Thank you all.
License
MIT. The license file keeps the original copyright notices.
Switchboard is a community project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic. "Claude" and "Claude Code" are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC.
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