Use Separate Work and Personal Claude Code Accounts

If you use Claude Code for both a day job and personal projects, the accounts usually need to stay separate — different billing, different organization, sometimes different usage policy. Manually logging out and back in every time you switch context is slow and easy to get wrong. Naming both accounts as aisw profiles removes the friction.

Before you start

You’ll need Claude Code signed into at least one of the two accounts already, so aisw can capture it live instead of requiring a fresh OAuth flow.

CLI method

1. Capture the account you’re currently signed into.

aisw init
aisw add claude work --from-live

2. Add the second account.

aisw add claude personal

This launches Claude Code’s native OAuth flow for the second account. If you’d rather use an API key for one of them:

aisw add claude personal --api-key "$ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"

3. Switch as you move between contexts.

aisw use claude work
# ...later
aisw use claude personal

4. Optional: keep local state separate too.

By default Claude Code keeps some local configuration alongside your credentials. If you want work and personal to have fully independent local state (not just different credentials), use isolated state mode:

aisw use claude work --state-mode isolated

Shared mode (the default) only swaps credentials and leaves local configuration common between profiles — usually what you want unless the two accounts need genuinely different settings.

Desktop method (coming soon)

AI Switcher Desktop is currently in private testing and not yet available for public download. The steps below reflect the current build; use the CLI method above until it ships.

1. Open Profiles and find the Claude Code section.
2. Add both accounts — import the live one first, then add the second through Add Profile → Sign in.
3. Rename each profile from the inspector so they’re clearly labeled (work, personal).
4. Switch from Overview or Quick Switch (⌘K) whenever you change context.

Verify the result

aisw status --context

This confirms which Claude Code profile is active right now, independent of what any other tool is doing.