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One command to flip your Claude Code or Codex CLI from your work account to your
personal one, and back. No re-login, no browser, no copying tokens around.
100% local. Never touches the network.
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## Why
If you run Claude Code or Codex 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 snapshots each logged-in account once, then
swaps between them in place: the running CLI picks up the new account on your
next message.
It is a **switcher, not a rotator.** It manages accounts you already own for
distinct purposes. It has no feature for cycling accounts to get around a rate
limit -- see [What it will not do](#what-it-will-not-do).
Safety is the design center: swapdex captures the *live* login before it swaps,
so a switch can never lose or clobber an account, and it only ever hands the
official CLI its own credentials -- no wrapper, no proxy, no client spoofing.
## Concepts
- **Profile** -- a named, point-in-time snapshot of a live login (the credential
files, captured with `add`). It is a copy, not a live link.
- **Account** -- the redacted identity a profile resolves to (email, tier,
expiry). Shown by `ls` and `status`; never a token.
- **Switch** -- `use` writes a profile's snapshot back into place atomically,
backing up the current login first. One account is active per tool at a time.
## Install
```sh
# crates.io (Rust)
cargo install swapdex
# Homebrew (macOS / Linux)
brew install youdie006/tap/swapdex
# npm (downloads the prebuilt binary)
npm install -g @youdie006/swapdex
# or the one-liner (prebuilt binary -> ~/.local/bin)
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/youdie006/swapdex/main/install.sh | sh
```
Linux / WSL first; on macOS, Codex works today and Claude-via-Keychain is
[issue #1](https://github.com/youdie006/swapdex/issues/1). Requires the Claude Code
and/or Codex CLI already installed and logged in. Full command, exit-code, and
environment reference: [docs/COMMANDS.md](docs/COMMANDS.md).
## Use
```sh
# Save the account you're currently logged in as
swapdex add work # snapshots Claude + Codex, whichever is logged in
swapdex add personal --tool claude
# See what you have and who's active
swapdex ls
swapdex status
# Switch (takes effect on your next message -- no restart)
swapdex use personal
swapdex use - # toggle back to the previous profile
swapdex use w # a unique prefix is enough
swapdex use work --tool codex
swapdex use work --dry-run # show what would change, write nothing
# 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
# Made a bad switch? Put back the login that was live before it
swapdex restore
# Anything off? Every finding comes with its fix
swapdex doctor
```
`status` shows the live account per tool, matched back to a saved profile:
```
claude-code: you@work.com [max] (profile 'work')
codex: you@personal.com (profile 'personal')
```
The active account is always read from the **live** login, so if you `/login`
directly in the CLI, swapdex reports the truth rather than a stale guess.
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)`.
`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
codex 5h: 1.1M tok / 3 sess 7d: 9.7M tok / 24 sess
```
It sums tokens from `~/.claude` and `~/.codex` transcripts, which are not tagged
by account, so this is a machine-wide activity gauge rather than a per-account
balance -- deliberately a hint, not a quota-dodging auto-rotator.
## How it works
Each CLI 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`
`add` copies the current login into a private store at
`~/.local/share/swapdex`. `use` writes a saved snapshot back into place
atomically, backing up the current login first. For Claude, only the
`oauthAccount` block of `~/.claude.json` is swapped -- your projects, MCP
servers, and settings in that file are never touched.
## 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)
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).
### What it will not do
These are structural properties, not promises -- the code is built so they
cannot happen:
- **No network, ever.** The switching binary has no HTTP client in its
dependency graph (CI asserts this on every commit). swapdex cannot phone home
or exfiltrate a token.
- **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.
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.
- [prodex](https://github.com/youdie006/prodex) -- share one logged-in ChatGPT
Pro session across agents. swapdex coexists with it without touching its auth.
## Roadmap
- **Claude Code on macOS (Keychain).** On macOS, Claude Code keeps its login in
the Keychain rather than a file; swapdex detects this and refuses honestly
instead of half-switching, but switching it is not supported yet. Design and
constraints: [issue #1](https://github.com/youdie006/swapdex/issues/1) --
contributions from macOS users welcome (Codex already works on macOS).
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