Yoink

Switch between Claude Code accounts from your macOS menu bar or terminal, fast.

Snapshot each login into a named profile, swap them in a single keystroke from the menu bar app or the CLI, and run OpenRouter, Ollama, or any Anthropic-compatible model through the same Claude Code harness. No browser, no re-login.

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Install

macOS menu bar app

Download the notarized Yoink app for Apple Silicon or Intel from the download page, then drag it to Applications. It lives in the menu bar, so switching accounts is one click with no terminal.

CLI

macOS / Linux:

curl -fsSL https://yoink.codes/install.sh | bash

Windows (PowerShell):

powershell -c "irm https://yoink.codes/install.ps1 | iex"

Or on any OS with Node:

npm install -g yoink-cli

Each drops a single self-contained binary onto your PATH. Confirm it answers:

yoink version

Quick start

Register your accounts once, then hop between them instantly:

yoink add        # sign in as account A, name it "work"
                 # "Add another?" > yes > sign in as account B, name it "personal"

yoink personal   # switch to personal
yoink work       # switch back

Restart Claude Code after a switch so it picks up the new login.

The interactive menu

Run yoink with no arguments for a keyboard-driven list of your accounts:

 yoink  switch Claude accounts

 ● work        work@company.com
 ○ personal    me@personal.dev
 ○ openrouter  z-ai/glm-4.7

 ↑↓ move  ↵ switch  n new  e edit  s save  d delete  q quit

Actions loop back to the list, so you can switch, add, and prune in one sitting, then leave with q.

Features

• Instant switching. Each profile stores the credential blob (macOS Keychain on macOS, ~/.claude/.credentials.json on Linux/Windows) plus the oauthAccount identity, so a swap is a keystroke, not a browser round-trip.
• Never loses a token. Every switch re-snapshots the active profile from the live credential store first, so a background token refresh is never dropped.
• External providers. Register OpenRouter, Ollama, z.ai, DeepSeek, Moonshot, or any Anthropic-compatible endpoint as a switchable profile, with a searchable model picker.
• Per-project overrides. Apply a provider globally, or scope it to one repo via ./.claude/settings.local.json, which yoink adds to your .gitignore before writing.
• Nothing leaks. yoink only ever touches seven managed ANTHROPIC_* / CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL keys, warns before writing a token into a git-tracked file, and writes every file atomically.
• One binary. bun build --compile bakes the CLI, its deps, and the runtime into a single file. No Node, no runtime to install.

Commands

External providers

yoink add also registers any Anthropic-compatible provider. Pick External provider and give it a name, a base URL (e.g. https://openrouter.ai/api), and an API key. yoink validates the key against ${baseURL}/v1/models, then shows a searchable picker; the model you choose fills every Claude Code model tier. Switching to a Claude account strips the provider env block again so your subscription takes back over.

See external providers for the full flow.

How it works

Claude Code keeps your login in the macOS Keychain under the service Claude Code-credentials on macOS, and in ~/.claude/.credentials.json on Linux and Windows. A profile pairs that credential blob with the oauthAccount identity from ~/.claude.json. A switch:

1. Re-snapshots the currently active profile from the live credential store.
2. Writes the target profile's credential blob back (Keychain entry on macOS, .credentials.json elsewhere).
3. Restores the target profile's account identity into ~/.claude.json.

Profiles live in ~/.config/yoink/profiles.json on every OS (chmod 600 on POSIX). Full details in how it works.

Supported platforms

macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Linux (x64 and arm64, both glibc and musl/Alpine), and Windows (x64 and arm64). On macOS, credentials are swapped through the login Keychain via the security CLI; on Linux and Windows, through ~/.claude/.credentials.json, written atomically with the same protections Claude Code itself applies. The installers and npm package ship prebuilt binaries for every platform, so nothing else is needed. On bare Alpine, run apk add libstdc++ libgcc once (the same runtime libraries Node needs there).

Documentation

Full guides live at yoink.codes and in docs/:

• Getting started
• Usage
• Interactive menu
• External providers
• How it works
• Development · Contributing

Development

bun install
bun run dev        # web dev server + CLI test watcher (mprocs)
bun run build      # build every app (turbo)
bun run test       # run every app's tests

Build the CLI from source and link it:

cd apps/cli && bun run build
ln -sf "$PWD/dist/yoink" ~/.local/bin/yoink

See docs/development.md for the monorepo layout, release flow, and architecture.

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License

MIT © Majid Raimi