How to use two instances of Claude Code

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It's quite frustrating, especially since it often happens when our treatment isn't finished.
It's not ideal to have two instances of Claude, because it means paying for Claude Pro twice, but it's cheaper than having Claude Max, which costs over €100.

First, at the root of your account, create a new folder that will hold your Claude configurations, credentials, etc.

If you have specific configurations such as commands, don't forget to copy them. That's what I do when I activate another instance of Claude.

cp -R .claude .claude-2

in zshrc $HOME/.zshrc|.bashrc

cc() {
 claude
}

ccp() {

CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR=~/.claude-2 claude

}

Now you just need to launch cc for claude or ccp for claude-2.

Note: cc and ccp are arbitrary you can call them whatever you want.

Enjoy

Comments

[Mohamed Yamani]

Thanks for sharing! Unfortunately CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR is not present in the documentation, but you can find it in GitHub issues referenced by repository contributors.

I'm wondering why you went with bash functions instead of aliases? I personally went with the latter, and just today discovered that we can also use functions for that.