Persona
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For Claude Desktop · macOS 14+

Work, clients, personal. Each its own Claude.

Persona asks which profile to use before opening Claude Desktop. Each profile has its own account, skills, rules and MCP servers, and several profiles can stay open at once.

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v1.0.4 · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon and Intel · Line33
Personafor Claude

Pick a profile

Who’s using Claude?

Each profile has its own account, skills and rules.

Manage profiles
33line← → to choose · return to launch · ⌘, settings

New profile

Name

Client X

Claude account

New account (separate sign-in) Same account as “Work”

Start from

Main▾ Create profile

From “Main” to “Client X”

  • SkillsUnifiedSeparateExtendedEmpty
  • AgentsUnifiedSeparateExtendedEmpty
  • CommandsUnifiedSeparateExtendedEmpty
  • Global rulesUnifiedSeparateExtendedEmpty
  • Settings and hooksUnifiedSeparateExtendedEmpty
  • MCP serversUnifiedSeparateExtendedEmpty

Launching “Client X”

configuration
~/.claude-profiles/client-x
Desktop data
~/.claude-profiles/.desktop-data/client-x
already open?
→ bring its window to the front
ClaudePersonal
Open
ClaudeWork
Open
ClaudeClient X
Open

$ ~/.claude-profiles/bin/claude-profile client-x

How it works

A profile, then Claude. In four steps.

  1. 01

    Create a profile

    With a new Claude account that signs in on its own, or with the same account as another profile but separate skills and rules.

  2. 02

    Choose what to bring

    From the starting profile, component by component: unified, separate, extended or empty. Down to single skills.

  3. 03

    Launch Claude

    Persona opens Claude Desktop with the profile’s folder. If that profile is already open, it brings its window to the front.

  4. 04

    Keep them open together

    One Claude instance per account, all at the same time. And the same profile in the terminal, with Claude Code.

What’s inside

Everything that keeps one context apart from another.

01

Separate accounts

Each account gets its own Claude Desktop data folder: sign-in, preferences and Code tab sessions. On first launch Claude asks you to sign in.

02

Several Claudes at once

One instance per account, side by side. Two profiles on the same account can’t: Persona offers to close the other one.

03

Profiles from profiles

Start from an existing one and choose, for each component, what to share, what to copy and what to leave empty.

04

Item by item

Make a unified skill your own, unlink it, or import one from any other profile. New items in the source are linked at every launch.

05

Code sessions across profiles

Copy Code tab conversations from one profile to another, even across accounts. If the target account is open, they arrive at its next launch.

06

In the terminal too

A command to copy for using the profile with the Claude Code CLI, plus Persona’s own CLI: list, create, sync, launch.

07

From the keyboard

← → to choose, return to launch, the profile’s number to go straight there. ⌘N for a new profile, ⌘, for settings.

08

Nothing gets lost

~/.claude is only ever read. Replacements move the old version to the Trash, and no folder is ever moved.

09

Updates itself

Signed and notarized by Apple. Checks every 6 hours and installs the update when it quits, or asks first if you prefer.

Components

Nine components, four ways to bring them.

A new profile starts from an existing one. For each of these components you choose how: Persona rewrites the absolute paths in settings and plugins to point at the new folder.

Unified

Links to the source’s items: a change applies to both. You can still add items of your own.

Separate

An independent copy: from then on the profile goes its own way.

Extended

CLAUDE.md only: a file of its own that imports the source’s and adds specific rules.

Empty

The component starts empty.

  • Skillsskills/UnifiedSeparateEmpty
  • Agentsagents/UnifiedSeparateEmpty
  • Commandscommands/UnifiedSeparateEmpty
  • Output stylesoutput-styles/UnifiedSeparateEmpty
  • Rulesrules/UnifiedSeparateEmpty
  • Global rulesCLAUDE.mdExtendedUnifiedSeparateEmpty
  • Settings and hookssettings.jsonSeparateEmpty
  • Pluginsplugins/SeparateEmpty
  • MCP serversmcpServersSeparateEmpty

Highlighted: the suggested mode; the others are picked when you create the profile. Credentials, sessions and project memory are never copied: each profile has its own.

Your data

The Main profile stays untouched.

The Main profile is your usual ~/.claude and Claude Desktop’s usual data folder. Persona only reads them: the other profiles live in ~/.claude-profiles, each in its own folder.

No folder is moved or swapped. When something has to be replaced (a re-import, a change of CLAUDE.md mode, removing an item of your own) the old version goes to the Trash, not into thin air.

Line33

Limits, stated plainly

What to know before you start.

Go through Persona

Opening Claude from the Dock or Spotlight uses the Main profile. For the others, open Persona.

Same account, one at a time

Two profiles on the same account can’t be open together: Persona offers to close the other one.

Chats stay with their account

claude.ai chats live on Anthropic’s servers and can’t be moved. Code tab sessions can.

Claude restarts

If Claude restarts on its own, for example to update, it keeps the account but falls back to the Main configuration.

FAQ

Is Persona an Anthropic product?

No. It’s an independent Line33 project that opens Claude Desktop with the profile folder you pick. It doesn’t modify Claude and isn’t affiliated with Anthropic.

What do I need?

A Mac running macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon or Intel, with Claude Desktop already installed.

How do I install it?

Open the DMG, drag Persona to Applications and open it instead of Claude. The Main profile is already there: create the others from the launch window.

Can I use two Claude accounts?

Yes: create a profile with “New account” and sign in with the other account on first launch. Both Claudes can stay open together.

Does it work with Claude Code in the terminal?

Yes. The “Terminal command” button copies the command for using a profile with the Claude Code CLI, with its skills, settings and MCP servers.

Can I back up before creating profiles?

Yes. Creating profiles doesn’t change the Main profile, but Persona’s Backup button saves ~/.claude, Claude Desktop’s data and ~/.claude-profiles to a .zip archive, with Claude closed. Restore instructions are inside the archive.

How do I uninstall it?

Quit Claude and Persona, move Persona to the Trash and, if you no longer need the other profiles, ~/.claude-profiles too (with their accounts and sessions). The Main profile is the one you always had: just open Claude directly.

What language is the app in?

Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch: Persona follows your Mac’s language.

Download

Download Persona and pick who’s using Claude.

A signed and notarized DMG. Drag Persona to Applications, then open it instead of Claude.

macOS

macOS 14 or later · Apple Silicon and Intel

Download for Mac Version 1.0.4 · 2.6 MB · DMG

Install

  1. 01Open the DMG
  2. 02Drag Persona to Applications
  3. 03Open it instead of Claude

It updates itself: no need to come back here for new versions.