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Run a second Claude Code account (CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR) that shares memory, skills, sessions and settings with the first

claude-code@2.1.295 macos #claude-code #config #claude_config_dir #memory #multi-account

Recipe

The second account runs with CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR=~/.claude-2 (set in its launcher script). Replace its knowledge dirs with symlinks into ~/.claude, leaving account identity files alone:

cp -a ~/.claude-2 ~/.claude-2.bak-$(date +%Y%m%d)
cd ~/.claude-2
for x in CLAUDE.md skills hooks workflows plugins projects history.jsonl \
         settings.json settings.local.json file-history paste-cache session-index; do
  [ -e ~/.claude/$x ] || continue
  rm -rf "$x"; ln -s ~/.claude/$x "$x"
done

projects/ holds both session transcripts and the per-project memory/ folder, so memory written by either account is seen by the other.

Do not symlink ~/.claude-2/.claude.json (it holds the second account's OAuth/account state). Instead merge the per-folder state from the main ~/.claude.json into it (the projects map: trust flags, allowed tools, per-project MCP servers, plus top-level mcpServers) with a small JSON script that keeps the second file's own account keys.

Goal

Two Claude Code logins on one machine (e.g. a work and a personal account), where the second account should behave identically: same CLAUDE.md, auto-memory, skills, hooks, past sessions (resume works), settings and folder trust, but its own OAuth identity.

Verify

claude-b -p "list the first 3 entries of your MEMORY.md, what CLAUDE.md says about X, your skill names, and run: echo ok" answered from the shared files and ran the command without prompting.

Notes

Because settings.json is shared, env changes (timeouts, retries) hit both accounts.
Running sessions do not pick up the changes; restart them.
macOS has no timeout command by default (brew install coreutils for gtimeout).

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