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Why it mattersA developer who pays for both ChatGPT and Claude subscriptions and juggles work and personal accounts can keep them in separate instances with one wizard instead of swapping credentials by hand.
A developer who pays for ChatGPT and Claude on the same Mac usually ends up signing out, pasting a different API key, or writing shell aliases to swap sessions. Agent Manager Lite, by GitHub user sv3nbeast, puts the whole thing in one application. The macOS workbench creates independent instances for Codex, Claude Code CLI and Claude Desktop, each with its own account, provider key, proxy, session history and personal skill set. The repository has 427 stars seventeen days after it was created and had a commit the day it reached the AI News candidate list.
One wizard, two coding agents, four launch modes
A new instance in Agent Manager Lite follows one wizard: pick Codex or Claude, pick desktop app or CLI terminal, pick sign-in method or an API connection, preview the configuration and launch. The project README states that Codex supports both the ChatGPT desktop app and the CLI, with ChatGPT account sign-in or an API connection, and Claude Code supports the official native CLI with a Claude subscription account, an API key or Bearer, or an Anthropic Messages gateway. Claude Desktop runs the official Mac app, with the client's own sign-in or an API or third-party connection for Code and Cowork.
Shared keys, independent state
The project README states that each instance keeps its own desktop profile, cookies, client configuration and local history, and that stopping an instance keeps those files. One Claude account can appear in several instances at once and keep its cloud history in sync, while the on-disk state stays separate. The provider library stores one supplier's address once and holds separate keys for OpenAI Responses, Chat Completions and Anthropic Messages against the same vendor. Credentials go in the macOS keychain.
The app also runs a local API in front of Codex connections, so a team can hold several ChatGPT accounts behind one proxy with model restrictions and token limits, and forward image generation calls to a provider that supports them. Claude Code CLI connects straight to the chosen Anthropic Messages service without this layer.
What it does not do
Agent Manager Lite is a macOS-only build at version 0.1.0. The README states that Claude session management does not yet support cross-instance copy, import or export, sync, archive, delete, visibility repair or token counting, and that the Chat, Cowork, SSH and cloud histories stay in the original client. Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry and npm wrapper launchers for Claude Code are not supported. The project is open-source under its listed licence, with a release page and a built-in encrypted data backup for portable transfer.
The README is in Chinese, with an English version at README.en.md. The repository was created on 4 October and had a commit on 20 October, so this is active work rather than a parked experiment, with the usual caveat that 427 stars is interest from other developers rather than a user base.
Source
sv3nbeast/agent-manager-lite on GitHub.
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