Claude profiles

If you juggle two Claude accounts — say personal and work — the usual flow is painful: Claude Code keeps a single login in ~/.claude/, so switching means /logout then /login every time you move between folders.

Vector solves this by mapping folders → profiles, where each profile is an isolated Claude home (~/.claude-profiles/<id>/) injected via CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR when a Claude session starts in a matched folder.

Setting up a profile

1. Open Settings (⌘,) → Claude Profiles → Add profile.
2. Pick a name and the folders that should use it.
3. Under Advanced, optionally pick a Seed from source — defaults to ~/.claude, or point it at ~/.claude-work or any existing Claude home. Credentials, settings.json, and projects/ history are copied over so the new profile starts with your real state instead of a blank install.

macOS stores Claude credentials in Keychain by default; seeding copies everything else, but the new profile will still prompt /login once — after that it sticks.

Using a profile

Each Claude tab shows a small pill with the active profile. Click it to override for just that tab (ephemeral), or jump to Manage profiles.

Folders not mapped to any profile continue to use your existing ~/.claude/ — upgrading Vector never touches your default login.