I have several Claude Code accounts signed in on one machine at the same time, and they share one setup: the same plugins, skills, memory and history. I pick the account for the job, and everything else is where I left it.
\nOn 3 and 4 November 2026 I moved a long working session from one account to another in the middle of the task. The conversation, the memory and the tools were all there on the other side, and I carried on from the same point. Nothing was lost.
\nThat is the whole claim, and I want to keep it small. It is one session on one machine, and I’m not saying more than that.
\nMy work doesn’t fit in one account. Different work belongs with different accounts, and the obvious way to cope is a second copy of everything: plugins installed twice, skills that drift apart, a memory that only knows half the story, and a session you can’t take with you. I didn’t want to maintain two of everything, so I stopped having two setups.
\nThe setup is the same whichever account I’m on, and a session isn’t tied to the account it started on. I choose the account, and nothing else about my working day changes.
\nIt’s a tool I wrote for myself. It’s private, and for now it stays that way, so I won’t describe how it works here. What I’ll say is that it came from wanting my work to move freely. The other half of my setup is the part that builds and tests software while I sleep.
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