Move Account

aichat move-account moves a session between two accounts of the same agent — where an account is a config directory such as ~/.claude vs ~/.claude-rja, or ~/.codex vs ~/.codex-rja (the directories normally selected via CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR / CODEX_HOME or a shell alias). Useful when you started a session under your personal account that belongs in your work account, or vice versa.

The session stays in the same project: nothing inside the transcript is rewritten, only its storage location changes. (To move a session to a different project instead, see aichat move.)

Usage

aichat move-account <session> --to <config-dir> [options]

<session> may be:

a session UUID — full or partial (a prefix or substring)
a Claude session name — the title set with /rename
a Codex thread name
an exact session file path inside an eligible source home

Resolution uses the shared tiers: exact id, exact name, id prefix, id substring, filename substring, then name substring. The winning tier is chosen across all searched source accounts, so a weaker match in one account cannot compete with an exact name in another.

In an interactive terminal, ambiguous matches appear in a numbered Rich table. The table includes the source home so equal names in different accounts remain distinguishable. Enter q, press Ctrl-C, or send end-of-input to cancel before anything moves. Without a terminal, the command lists the matches and exits nonzero; use --from or a more specific query to disambiguate.

Options

Option	Meaning
`--to <dir>`	Target account config dir (required), e.g. `~/.codex-rja`
`--from <dir>`	Source account config dir. Default: search all local homes — the env-var home, the default home, and `~/.claude-` / `~/.codex-` siblings
`--agent claude\|codex`	Agent kind. Default: auto-detected from the config dirs (`projects/` means Claude, `sessions/` means Codex)
`--keep`	Copy instead of move, leaving the source account untouched

What moves

Claude: the transcript keeps its projects/<encoded-path>/<uuid>.jsonl location in the target home, and its sidecar directory (subagents, tool-results, workflows) moves with it.
Codex: the rollout file keeps its date-based sessions/YYYY/MM/DD/ location, and the session’s thread-name entries move with it in session_index.jsonl.

The copy is verified before the source is removed, and the command refuses to overwrite a session that already exists in the target account. On success it prints a paste-ready resume command that names the account explicitly, so it works regardless of any CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR / CODEX_HOME lingering in your shell.

Examples

Move a Codex session started in the personal account into the work account, keeping the original as a safety copy:

aichat move-account my-codex-thread --to ~/.codex-rja --keep

Copying codex session 019ca600-21fa-7d40-8560-d665abfca2fd (my-codex-thread)
  from account: /Users/you/.codex
  to account:   /Users/you/.codex-rja
  transcript:   /Users/you/.codex-rja/sessions/2026/06/10/rollout-....jsonl
  thread name:  moved in session_index.jsonl
  source left in place (--keep)

Resume with:
  cd /Users/you/myproject && CODEX_HOME=/Users/you/.codex-rja codex resume 019ca600-...

Move a Claude session from the work account back to the default personal account:

aichat move-account cowrite-fable --from ~/.claude-rja --to ~/.claude