activate

A command for switching Claude Code between named configuration environments. Each environment stores separate settings and login credentials, while the default environment points to the original Claude Code configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to activate work, personal, or default Claude Code environments, and to switch away from an environment that is currently active.
Why use it?
It avoids manually changing configuration paths when you need different accounts or setups. The active environment is also shown in the shell prompt.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/1shooperman/claude-env/activate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/1shooperman/claude-env
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 240 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00240
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00120
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00024

Measured 2d ago against content hash ecbe3bb366c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

activate scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/commands/activate.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

claudenv <name>

Activate a named env.

Usage

claudenv work
claudenv personal
claudenv default    # maps to ~/.claude (your original config)

What it does

Sets CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR to ~/.claudenv/envs/<name>/ so Claude Code reads config and credentials from that directory. Updates your shell prompt to show the active env name.

If another env is already active, it is silently deactivated first.

The default env

claudenv default is a built-in reserved name that maps CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR to ~/.claude — your original Claude Code home. It lets you switch back to your primary account without fully deactivating.

Errors

Message Cause
claudenv: no such env "…" The named env directory does not exist — run claudenv list or claudenv config to create it
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 35 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A ecbe3bb366c6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

activate is a command published in the GitHub repository 1shooperman/claude-env (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 240 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.