clikae · ｷﾘｶｴ

CLI profile switcher. One tool to juggle multiple accounts / configs for any CLI that uses an environment variable for its settings.

"Kirikae" (切り替え, ki-ri-ka-e) is Japanese for "switching".

⚠️ Unofficial. clikae is a community tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of the CLI vendors it integrates with. "Claude" is a trademark of Anthropic, PBC; other CLI names are trademarks of their respective owners.

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What & why

You probably have more than one account on at least one CLI tool. Two GitHub accounts (personal + work). Two gcloud configurations (client A + client B). Two Anthropic Claude subscriptions because one Max plan didn't have enough quota. And now you're juggling shell aliases, env vars, and --profile flags by hand, and you keep logging into the wrong one.

clikae is a small, pure-bash tool that:

1. Creates isolated profile directories for each CLI tool (one folder per (CLI, profile) pair).
2. Generates shell aliases (claude-work, gh-personal, …) you can use in a new terminal.
3. On macOS, generates double-clickable .app launchers that open a Terminal window with the right env vars set and a custom window title so you can tell them apart.
4. Cleans up after itself when you're done with a profile.

It works for any CLI that respects an environment variable for its config location, ships with built-in adapters for Claude Code, GitHub CLI, gcloud, Docker, Helm, kubectl, AWS, Azure CLI, npm, Terraform, and Pulumi, and adding a new one is ~10 lines of bash. No daemons, no global state, no network calls — every line is auditable.

Install

brew install CVERInc/clikae/clikae

Or from source / curl | bash — see docs/installation.md.

30 seconds

clikae init claude work --alias   # create profile + add `claude-work` alias
source ~/.zshrc                   # pick up the alias
claude-work                       # go

Documentation

• Installation — Homebrew, from source, curl | bash, PATH setup.
• Usage — full command reference, the migrate command, how it works, supported CLIs.
• Troubleshooting — aliases not loading, Gatekeeper on .app, AWS profiles, undoing rc edits.
• Claude on macOS — why migrating asks you to log in again (Keychain), and why the startup screen can look different (it's not clikae).
• Adding an adapter — teach clikae a new CLI.

Roadmap

• v0.1 — core CLI, claude adapter, macOS .app launchers, install script.
• v0.2 — 7 built-in adapters (claude, gh, gcloud, docker, helm, kubectl, aws), bats-core test suite + CI on Linux & macOS, migrate command for hand-rolled setups.
• v0.3 — Homebrew tap, migrate --keep-login (carries the macOS Keychain token across a move), split docs.
• v0.4 (current) — Windows PowerShell module (powershell/Clikae.psm1): profile dirs + $PROFILE functions + optional .lnk shortcuts, Pester-tested on PS 7 and Windows PowerShell 5.1. Four more adapters (az, npm, terraform, pulumi; 11 total). Plus a migrate guard against moving an in-use config dir.
• v1.0 — SwiftUI menu bar GUI for macOS (click-to-switch active profile).

Contributing

PRs are very welcome — especially new adapters. Please read docs/adding-an-adapter.md first. For non-trivial changes, open an issue to discuss the approach before sending a PR.

License

MIT