Claustrophobic — multi-account harness for Claude Code

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for when the walls close in, switch rooms.

A multi-account harness for Claude Code. Each Claude subscription becomes a room, and c opens Claude in the room with the most air left. Rooms share sessions and settings, so when one account runs dry you exit, type cr, and the same session carries on under a fresher one.

Install

$ curl -fsSL https://claustrophobic.xyz/install | bash

Setup keeps your current login as room 1 and adds more rooms through the official claude login. Safe to re-run. The installer verifies the download against a pinned checksum before anything runs. Prefer to read first? The whole thing is one bash script.

Or hand it to Claude:

Set up Claustrophobic on this machine: read
https://claustrophobic.xyz/llms.txt and follow it.

Rooms

$ cl

✻ Claustrophobic · when the walls close in, switch rooms

ID ACCOUNT PLAN 5H WK RESETS SEEN

1 you@example.com Max 20x ✦✦✦✦✧ 82% 61% 15:00 2m ago

→ 2 ai-002@example.com Max 20x ✦✧✧✧✧ 12% 8% 17:00 3h ago

3 ai-003@example.com Pro ✦✦✧✧✧ 34% 20% 16:00 1h ago

$ c

✻ room 2 · ai-002@example.com · 5h 12% · plenty of air

▐▛███▜▌ Claude Code v2.1.173

▝▜█████▛▘ Fable 5 with high effort · Claude Max

▘▘ ▝▝ ~/my-app

──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

❯ Try "refactor docService.ts"

──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

✻ 2 ai-002@example.com │ 5h ✦✧✧✧✧ 12% → 17:00 │ wk 8% │ Fable 5 │ my-app

⏵⏵ bypass permissions on (shift+tab to cycle) · ← for agents

claunch on the airiest room (coolest of 5h + weekly usage)
c 2launch as account 2; same for cr 2, cw 3
crresume any session, from any account
cwlaunch in a git worktree
clthe table above · cl add · cl help

How it works

  1. Every account gets its own room. Logins live in separate CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR profiles, and the official Claude CLI does the logging in.
  2. The rooms share furniture. Sessions, settings, skills and plugins are symlinked to your main ~/.claude, so cr resumes any session from any account.
  3. The statusline is the sensor. Every render snapshots that room's rate limits for cl and the auto-picker. Idle rooms show their last known air.

Fine print

Needs macOS or Linux, bash 3.2+, the claude CLI, and python3 or node. Accounts must be distinct emails. Launch flags default to --dangerously-skip-permissions; change them in ~/.claustrophobic/config.

Whether multiple subscription accounts sit within Anthropic's consumer terms is between you and Anthropic. Read them first.

Uninstall: remove the claustrophobic block from your rc file, run claustrophobic statusline uninstall, delete ~/.claustrophobic/.