You have a personal Claude Code subscription and a work one. Or you freelance for two clients who each provide their own API key. Or you want a sandboxed account for experiments that won't pollute your main config.
Whatever the reason, Claude Code doesn't ship with a built-in "switch account" command. But the architecture makes it straightforward: everything lives in a single config directory, and you can redirect it.
How Claude Code stores state
Claude Code keeps all its state in ~/.claude by default. That includes:
Authentication tokens
