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One command to flip your Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or Antigravity from
your work account to your personal one, and back. No re-login, no browser, no copying
tokens around -- and the switch itself never touches the network. (One opt-in
command, `swapdex quota`, reads your remaining balance from Anthropic; nothing
else does.)
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```sh
brew install youdie006/tap/swapdex # macOS / Linux
npm i -g @youdie006/swapdex # or, if you have node
cargo install swapdex # or, if you have rust
```
Then `swapdex add work`, `swapdex add personal`, and `swapdex use personal`.
[Full install notes](#install) · [what it will not do](#what-it-will-not-do).
---
## Why
If you run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or Antigravity under more than one
account -- a work seat and a personal subscription, a client's org and your own
-- switching means logging out and back in every time.
swapdex gives each account its **own permanent space** -- its own
`CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` slot -- and flips between them without ever copying a token.
`swapdex use work` points your default account there and a plain `claude`
follows it; `swapdex run work` launches straight into that account (each terminal
can be a different one). Because nothing is copied, **a switch can never log an
account out** -- even if a session is still running when you switch.
`swapdex onboard` sets this up in a few prompts.
It is a **switcher, not a rotator.** It manages accounts you already own for
distinct purposes, with no feature for cycling them to get around a rate limit
-- see [What it will not do](#what-it-will-not-do).
Safety is the design center: in the slot model swapdex never writes a credential
at all -- each account's own login creates and refreshes its token, in its own
slot -- and it only ever hands the official CLI its own credentials: no wrapper,
no proxy, no client spoofing.
## Concepts
- **Account** -- one login you own (a work seat, a personal subscription). Its
redacted identity (email, tier) is shown by `slots`, `status`, and `doctor`;
never a token.
- **Slot** -- an account's own permanent `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`, where its login
lives and refreshes in place. swapdex creates one per account (or adopts a
`~/.claude-*` dir you already use) and never copies tokens between them.
- **Default account** -- the one a plain `claude` uses, via a tiny shim on your
PATH. `swapdex use <name>` repoints it; `swapdex run <name>` ignores it and
launches a specific account directly.
<sub>swapdex still keeps the classic snapshot commands (`add` copies a live login
into a profile, `use` on that profile swaps it back, guarded against the
running-session logout) for the shared-slot workflow; `swapdex migrate` moves
Claude and Codex profiles whose accounts are not already slotted onto their own
slots.</sub>
## Install
```sh
# npm - you already have it, since Claude Code and Codex ship this way
npm install -g @youdie006/swapdex
# Homebrew (macOS / Linux)
brew install youdie006/tap/swapdex
# crates.io (needs a Rust toolchain)
cargo install swapdex
# or the one-liner (prebuilt binary -> ~/.local/bin)
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/youdie006/swapdex/main/install.sh | sh
```
Pick one and stay with it. Each installer wants the same name on `PATH`, and
with two of them the shims keep calling whichever copy wrote them - so updating
the other one changes nothing, silently. `swapdex doctor` reports this, along
with whether the version you are running is the one that is published.
Linux, WSL, and macOS (Claude's macOS login lives in the Keychain; swapdex
swaps it there, via `/usr/bin/security`). Requires at least one supported CLI
(Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Antigravity) already installed and logged in. Full command, exit-code, and environment
reference: [docs/COMMANDS.md](docs/COMMANDS.md).
## Use
```sh
# First run: guided setup -- registers ~/.claude-* dirs you already use,
# moves old profiles onto slots, offers the shim. A bare `swapdex` runs this
# automatically the first time there is something to set up.
swapdex onboard
# Launch an account in its own slot (first time = sign in; concurrent-safe,
# so each terminal can be a different account)
swapdex run work
swapdex run personal
# Make a plain `claude` follow a default account
swapdex shim # installs the claude shim once (prints a PATH line)
swapdex use personal # a plain `claude` now runs as personal
swapdex use work # switch the default -- no re-login, never logs out
# See your accounts and who's active
swapdex slots
swapdex status
# Register a config dir you already run by hand; move old profiles to slots
swapdex adopt company ~/.claude-company
swapdex migrate
# Sessions grouped by the account active when they ran (needs sessionwiki)
swapdex sessions
# Recent local token usage per tool (5h/7d) -- tells you when to switch
swapdex usage
# Remaining quota per Claude account -- the one opt-in network read
swapdex quota
# Set up a second machine with the same accounts (never carries a login)
swapdex export setup.json # on the machine you already use
swapdex import setup.json # on the new one, then sign each account in
# Anything off? Every finding comes with its fix
swapdex doctor
```
The classic snapshot commands still work for the shared-slot workflow: `swapdex
add <name>` snapshots the current login, `swapdex use <name>` swaps it back
(backed up first, and refused while a `claude` session is running on that login
so it can't be logged out), `swapdex restore` undoes the last swap, and `swapdex
ui` is the full-screen picker. `swapdex migrate` matches Claude and Codex
profiles to slots by account and creates spaces only for accounts without one.
`status` shows the active account per tool, matched back to a saved profile:
```
claude-code: you@work.com [max] (profile 'work')
codex: you@personal.com [chatgpt] (profile 'personal')
```
The active account is read from the **pointer** a switch sets, and falls back
to the live login on a machine that has no slots. Where the tool's own config
dir holds a different account -- you signed in directly without the shim, or an
old copy-model switch left one behind -- that gets its own line rather than
being shown as the active account:
```
codex: you@work.com (profile 'work')
(a plain `codex` would launch on 'personal' instead - `swapdex shim`
makes it follow your switches)
```
Both are true and they answer different questions, so swapdex prints both
instead of picking one. A machine sat in exactly that state for six days.
For your shell prompt or statusline, `status --short` prints one compact line:
```sh
$ swapdex status --short
claude:work codex:personal
```
e.g. in a starship prompt: `command = "swapdex status --short"` in a
[custom module](https://starship.rs/config/#custom-commands), or in `PS1`
via `$(swapdex status --short)`.
It also drops straight into **Claude Code's own status line**, so the active
account is always visible inside the tool you are switching
(`~/.claude/settings.json`):
```json
{
"statusLine": { "type": "command", "command": "swapdex status --short" }
}
```
`usage` reads your local session logs (no network) to gauge how heavily you've
been using each tool lately, so you know when to switch to a fresher account:
```
Local usage - this machine, approximate (not the billed quota):
claude-code 5h: 8.2M tok / 12 sess 7d: 61.4M tok / 88 sess
@work 5h: 6.0M tok 7d: 40.1M tok
@personal 5h: 2.2M tok 7d: 19.3M tok
```
Once a switch history exists, tokens are attributed to the profile active at
each event's timestamp (the same honest join `sessions` uses); anything before
your first switch stays untagged. Still deliberately a hint, not a
quota-dodging auto-rotator.
Where `usage` is your local activity, `quota` is the vendor's actual remaining
balance -- the one command that reaches the network, and only when you run it:
```
$ swapdex quota
quota - remaining on your Claude accounts
live from Anthropic's usage endpoint; opt-in network, spends 0 message quota.
work (active) you@work.com
5h ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░ 68% left resets in 2h 14m
7d ▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░ 57% left resets in 3d 4h
personal you@personal.com
snapshot token expired - `swapdex use personal` to refresh, then `swapdex quota`
```
It reads each account's remaining quota from Anthropic's official OAuth usage
endpoint using that account's **own** token -- read-only, and it spends zero
message quota. The active account is always live; a saved account whose token
has expired reports so rather than showing a stale number (swapdex never
refreshes tokens -- that is the line between a switcher and a rotator). It is
also in `swapdex ui` under the `%` key.
### The dashboard
`swapdex ui` is the same thing without the commands: your accounts, which one is
active, and how much each has left. On a machine with no profiles yet it opens on
what you are *already* signed into and offers to save that as your first one, so
setup is one keystroke and a name.
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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/youdie006/swapdex/main/docs/ui-demo.gif" alt="swapdex ui on a fresh machine: it finds the Claude Code and Codex logins already present, saves them as a profile named main, and shows the account with its 5h and 7d usage bars" width="760" />
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## Keeping accounts from expiring
An account nobody opens dies on its own. These refresh tokens go stale when
they are not exercised -- measured across two machines, an idle Codex slot
stops working about ten days after its last run -- and once the refresh token
is gone only a browser sign-in brings the account back.
swapdex renews idle accounts for you, but **only while its proxy is running**,
because that is the process holding the timer:
```sh
swapdex service install --tool claude
swapdex service install --tool codex
```
That installs a launchd/systemd unit per tool. The proxy then sweeps every
thirty minutes and renews anything approaching its deadline, including slots
nobody has opened. A slot the tool is running in is never touched: its own
session holds the refresh token, and renewing from outside would retire the one
that session is about to use.
Without the service, nothing is on a timer. You can sweep by hand:
```sh
swapdex refresh --keep-alive # renew every account heading for expiry
swapdex refresh <name> # renew one that has already lapsed
```
`swapdex doctor` reports whether the service is installed and running.
## How it works
**Slots (the model swapdex uses now).** Each account gets its own
`CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` -- a directory under `~/.local/share/swapdex/slots/`, or a
`~/.claude-*` dir you adopt. Claude keys its login to that dir (a file on Linux,
a Keychain item on macOS), so each account's token lives and refreshes *in its
own slot*. swapdex never copies a token between slots: `swapdex run <name>`
`exec`s `claude` with that slot's `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`, and `swapdex use <name>`
writes a one-line pointer that a small `claude` shim on your PATH reads. Shared
config (`settings.json`, global `CLAUDE.md`) is symlinked into each new slot;
the token and history stay per-slot. Because no credential is ever moved, a
token refresh in one account can never revoke another -- **a switch cannot log
you out**.
**Classic snapshots (still supported).** Each CLI also keeps its login in a
small on-disk file:
- Claude Code: `~/.claude/.credentials.json` plus the `oauthAccount` block inside
`~/.claude.json`
- Codex: `~/.codex/auth.json`
- Gemini CLI: `~/.gemini/oauth_creds.json` plus `~/.gemini/google_accounts.json`
- Antigravity: `~/.gemini/antigravity-cli/antigravity-oauth-token`
`add` copies the current login into a private store at `~/.local/share/swapdex`;
`use` on a snapshot profile writes it back atomically, backing up the current
login first, and only the `oauthAccount` block of `~/.claude.json` is swapped so
your projects, MCP servers, and settings are untouched. That switch is refused
while a `claude` session is running on the same login slot, since the session's
next token refresh would otherwise revoke the saved copy. On macOS the Claude
token lives in the login Keychain, one item per `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`. `swapdex
migrate [--tool claude|codex]` moves unslotted Claude and Codex profiles onto
their own slots, retiring the shared homes.
## Safety
- Every credential file swapdex writes is `0600`; the store directory is `0700`.
- Writes are atomic (temp file created `0600`, then renamed) so an interrupted
switch can never leave a half-written credential that bricks the CLI.
- Symlinked credential paths and running as root are refused.
- `use` writes a backup of the current login (fsynced, or the switch aborts;
exception: an unreadable/corrupt live file is skipped with a warning - `use`
is exactly the command that can replace a corrupt login)
before overwriting anything, and `swapdex restore` brings it back in one
command if the switch was a mistake. The store keeps the last 2 backups per
tool, and `use` warns when the outgoing login is not saved as a profile --
so save accounts you care about with `add`.
- No token, refresh token, or home path is ever printed.
**The store holds plaintext refresh tokens.** Protect `~/.local/share/swapdex`
like `~/.ssh`, and do not sync it across machines (it is single-machine,
single-user by design).
**Do not copy a credential out of the store for something else to use.** These
refresh tokens are single-use: the server retires the outgoing one whenever a
holder renews, so two programs holding one account's credential silently
retire each other's. The copy that missed a renewal keeps working until its
access token lapses, which is why the failure arrives hours or days after the
change that caused it -- one such split cost a scheduled job 42 hours. A
program that needs its own Codex or Claude access should sign in for itself;
`swapdex` is for accounts a person switches between, not a credential source
for other software.
Codex renewal is checked before access expires: a running Codex proxy checks
every 30 minutes and attempts renewal for idle slots within 48 hours of expiry.
`swapdex refresh --keep-alive` runs the same check without a proxy. If a local
session holds a due account, renewal is deferred to avoid retiring the token
that session holds. The account list and picker then show that renewal is
deferred and its refresh validity is unverified; this does not mean the access
token has expired or the account needs a new login. A confirmed refresh
rejection is reported separately as requiring re-login.
An external copy can renew without changing any local file. Neither the local
access token's issue time nor `last_refresh` reveals that remote event. These
checks therefore cannot certify refresh validity after unseen remote activity;
external consumers need their own login instead of a copy of a managed slot.
### What it will not do
These are structural properties, not promises -- the code is built so they
cannot happen:
- **No HTTP client, no background network.** The binary has no HTTP client in
its dependency graph (CI asserts this on every commit), so it cannot phone
home or exfiltrate a token. Switching, `ls`, `status`, `usage` -- all 100%
local. The one exception is the opt-in `swapdex quota` command, which shells
out to `curl` to read your *own* remaining balance from Anthropic's official
usage endpoint (that account's own token, read-only, spends zero message
quota). It runs only when you type it, sends no data anywhere, and touches no
other endpoint.
- **No auto-rotation.** There is no `--auto`, `--next`, or
`--when-rate-limited` flag. `use` only ever switches to a name you type.
- **No token export.** There is no command that prints a saved credential.
- **No wrapper, no client spoofing.** swapdex swaps the credential file that the
official `claude` / `codex` binary already reads, then gets out of the way. It
never sits between the CLI and the API, never proxies requests, and never
presents itself as the official client. Your traffic is the real CLI's traffic.
(Launching the official tool once, on your explicit pick - `login`'s sign-in
flow, `ui`'s session resume - is a hand-off, not a wrapper: swapdex `exec`s
and is gone.)
Anthropic and OpenAI both permit multiple accounts for genuinely different
purposes but forbid using multiple accounts to get around a single workload's
rate limit, and forbid routing subscription OAuth tokens through third-party
tools or spoofing the official client. swapdex is built for the former and
structurally cannot do the latter -- it only ever hands the real CLI its own
credentials. See
[Anthropic Usage Policy](https://www.anthropic.com/legal/usage-policy) and
[OpenAI Usage Policies](https://openai.com/policies/usage-policies/).
## MCP (read-only)
`swapdex mcp` runs a read-only MCP server exposing `whoami` and `list_accounts`
so an agent can see which account is active. There is deliberately **no** switch
tool -- an agent can never change your account.
```sh
claude mcp add swapdex -s user -- swapdex mcp
```
## Works with
swapdex is the accounts layer of a small local AI-CLI stack:
- [sessionwiki](https://github.com/youdie006/sessionwiki) -- index, search, and
resume your AI coding sessions. `swapdex sessions` groups them by account,
and after a switch in `swapdex ui` you get that account's recent sessions
with a `sessionwiki resume <id>` hint -- switch, land back in your work.
- [prodex](https://github.com/youdie006/prodex) -- share one logged-in ChatGPT
Pro session across agents. swapdex coexists with it without touching its auth.
## Alternatives
Good tools exist in this space; they make different trade-offs (each line from
that project's README, July 2026):
- [claude-swap](https://github.com/realiti4/claude-swap) -- Claude Code only,
a TUI with live usage bars, and *optional auto-switching* near your limit.
If you want auto-rotation, use it -- swapdex deliberately refuses to have
that feature.
- [aisw](https://github.com/burakdede/aisw) -- cross-tool including Gemini,
OS-keyring storage, Windows support. More features, bigger surface.
- [caam](https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/coding_agent_account_manager) --
cross-tool with a shell wrapper and automatic rotation on rate limits; the
philosophical opposite of swapdex.
Pick swapdex if you want the smallest thing that switches your AI CLIs
together, can always undo (`restore`), diagnoses itself (`doctor`), shows
your remaining balance (`quota`), and structurally cannot rotate, proxy, or
spoof the official client.
## Roadmap
- ~~Claude Code on macOS (Keychain).~~ **Shipped** (0.17-0.24): swapdex swaps
Claude's login inside the macOS Keychain via `/usr/bin/security`, resolves
the item exactly the way `claude` itself does (one item per
`CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` profile), and `doctor` diagnoses any mismatch.
- ~~Permanent per-account slots.~~ **Shipped** (0.26): each account gets its own
`CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`, so a switch copies no token and can never log an account
out -- even with a session running. `run`, `use` (repoint) + the `claude`
shim, `onboard`, `adopt`, `migrate`, and `sync-mcp` (shares your MCP servers
across slots, since they live in the per-account `.claude.json`).
Being considered, explicitly opt-in and advisory-only:
- **Per-directory hints (cross-tool).** Bind a directory to a profile and have
`swapdex resolve <dir>` *suggest* the right account ("this directory is bound
to `work` -- run `swapdex use work`"). It would cover both Claude
(`CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`) and Codex (`CODEX_HOME`) in one binding. It will never be
a shell wrapper, never auto-switch, and never let anything but an explicit
`swapdex use` change the active account -- that bright line is what keeps
swapdex a switcher, not a rotator.
## License
MIT