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claude-acc in Pod
What claude-acc does inside Pod: subscription rotation, the dev-server guard, memory-aware builds, cleanup, stay-awake and fans.
claude-acc is the studio's toolkit for running many Claude Code agents on one Mac. Until now it shipped on its own from the studio's Homebrew tap; in Pod it is part of the IDE.
Pod is in preparation. claude-acc's place in Pod, described here, is coming with the first release. Today it ships on its own: github.com/outof-place/claude-acc.
What it does
- Subscription rotation. Moves your sessions to the next Claude subscription before one hits its limit.
- Dev-server memory guard. Keeps the agents' dev servers from eating your memory, and stops an agent from starting a second server of the same app.
- Memory-aware builds. Holds heavy builds until there is memory free for them, so parallel agents don't push the Mac into swap.
- Cleanup. Clears what builds and installs leave behind (build output, stale
node_modules, caches) while nobody is using it. - Stay awake. Keeps the Mac awake until you say so, lid closed included.
- Fan control. Spins the fans up before the chip gets hot. It needs a small helper that runs as root, and asks before installing it.
Where it shows in Pod
- The window's status bar: the active account and its quota, dev-server memory, the build queue and stay-awake.
- A claude-acc tab in Settings.
- A menu bar extra that keeps running when Pod is closed, since the jobs behind it run on their own.
Already using claude-acc
Pod takes over the install you have. Your settings and state stay where they are, in ~/.local/share/claude-acc, and the claude-acc command keeps working; podx acc is the same command. The standalone Homebrew formula will be retired in favour of the Pod cask.
To hand claude-acc back to the standalone install, run claude-acc handback.