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Claude Desktop Multiple Windows Different API — Productivity skill for Claude Code

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Multiple windows for Claude Desktop with different APIs at the same time: keep your official Claude subscription in one window and run other windows on custom / third-party APIs (cc-switch).

How to install Claude Desktop Multiple Windows Different API

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open TonF1917/claude-desktop-multiple-windows-different-api and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Claude Desktop Multiple Windows Different API does

Multiple windows for Claude Desktop with different APIs at the same time: keep your official Claude subscription in one window and run other windows on custom / third-party APIs (cc-switch). Windows. 多开 Claude Desktop,多个窗口同时使用不同 API(官方订阅 + 第三方 API 同时工作)。

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README

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Claude Desktop: multiple windows with different APIs at the same time

**English** · [简体中文](README.zh-CN.md)

**Use several Claude Desktop windows at once, each on a different API.** Keep your **official Claude subscription** in one window and run as many other windows as you like on **custom / third-party APIs** (driven by [cc-switch](https://github.com/farion1231/cc-switch)). Multi-API, multi-window, multi-account Claude Desktop - on **Windows** (tested) and **macOS** (experimental).

Every window has its own data, its own **recoloured icon** (desktop, taskbar, system tray), its own taskbar button and - if you choose - its own API. The default third-party colour is the official icon in **purple-black with a white star**; pick any palette (Gemini, GPT, Perplexity, DeepSeek, WorkBuddy) or any `#RRGGBB`.

Unofficial community tool. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic or cc-switch. Icons are generated **locally** from the icon of your installed app; no Anthropic artwork is shipped in this repository.

Features

Official + third-party at the same time. The official window keeps your subscription login; other windows run on whatever API cc-switch points them at.
A different API per window. Pick a cc-switch provider for each window (it then talks to that provider's upstream directly), or let a window follow cc-switch's current selection.
As many windows as you want, in a small GUI in the Anthropic look (English by default, 中文 switch built in).
Separate icons everywhere: desktop shortcut, taskbar button, window icon, system-tray icon and tooltip.
Shared sessions: new sessions, titles, pinned/starred sessions, pin order and MCP servers are mirrored between windows; idle background windows restart silently to load them.
claude:// links open in the window you used last (or a fixed one).
**Same session in tw