crewrota FAQ
Short answers, each with a link to the page that has the rest.
crewrota runs Claude Code as one of your crew members, each one Claude login in its own folder; the commands are crew, crw and crewrota.
Can I use two Claude Code accounts at the same time?
Section titled “Can I use two Claude Code accounts at the same time?”Yes.
Each crew member is its own Claude Code config folder with its own login, so crew main in one terminal and crew side in another run as two accounts side by side.
Your main ~/.claude login is never touched.
See Add and manage crew members, and read Your accounts and Anthropic’s terms before you use several accounts.
Does crewrota read or store my Claude login?
Section titled “Does crewrota read or store my Claude login?”crewrota never copies or moves a login; to read usage, quota-axi uses each member’s own sign-in on your machine.
Each member logs in through Claude Code’s own login (crew add, crew login), and the login stays in that member’s folder.
A backup never holds a login: after crew restore, each member signs in again with crew login <member>.
Which account is close to its usage limit?
Section titled “Which account is close to its usage limit?”crew quota shows every member’s 5-hour and week use as bars, read fresh with quota-axi, which sends no message.
crew list shows the last reading for each member, and the crew menu shows the same bars before you pick.
$ crew quota
crewrota crew quota
member 5h week main ▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖ 86% ▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖ 71% side ▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖ 12% ▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖ 34% team ▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖ 47% ▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖▖ 62%
[exit code 0]See Check every member’s usage.
Does crewrota send messages on my accounts?
Section titled “Does crewrota send messages on my accounts?”Only crew warmup does: one short Haiku message per member, which starts its 5-hour window if none is running.
The menu, crew quota, crew list, the widget and the status line only read usage.
See Where usage readings come from.
Can another account continue my Claude Code session?
Section titled “Can another account continue my Claude Code session?”Yes, when both members are on the same ship: a ship shares the projects folder where Claude Code keeps its history, so crew side -- --resume <session id> picks up a session main started.
Claude’s own flags go after --.
See Share history between members with a ship.
Why is an MCP server I added gone after I restart?
Section titled “Why is an MCP server I added gone after I restart?”At every launch crewrota replaces a member’s own MCP list with its ship’s, or with the one in ~/.claude.json when the member is on no ship.
A server added inside a member with claude mcp add --scope user is lost at its next launch.
Add it to the ship with crew ship mcp add <ship> <name> ..., or to a repo’s .mcp.json for one project.
See Give a ship’s members the same MCP servers.
Why does crew main --resume say “Unknown option”?
Section titled “Why does crew main --resume say “Unknown option”?”crewrota reads every argument before -- as its own.
Put Claude’s flags after it: crew main -- --resume <id>.
See The -- rule.
How do I move Claude Code and my crew to a new computer?
Section titled “How do I move Claude Code and my crew to a new computer?”crew backup --password on the old machine writes one zip with your ships (history, memory, MCP servers), the member list, the settings, your project .claude folders and your main skills.
crew restore <zip> --password on the new one merges it in, renaming project folders to the new paths; add --map <old>=<new> for folders that moved.
Then sign each member in with crew login <member>.
See Move your crew to a new machine.
Can I run crewrota from a script or an AI agent?
Section titled “Can I run crewrota from a script or an AI agent?”Yes, once the one-time permissions question is answered (crew config permissions on or off): crew run <member> -- -p "<prompt>" --output-format json starts a member headless.
Only adding a member and logging one in need you at a terminal.
See the AI agent guide and Exit codes and terminal needs.
Does crewrota work on macOS and Linux?
Section titled “Does crewrota work on macOS and Linux?”Windows is the main platform.
macOS and Linux are beta: the test suite passes in CI on macOS 15 and Ubuntu, but they have not yet been tested thoroughly by hand.
On Linux, backups need libarchive-tools for bsdtar.
See Platforms and versions.
Where does crewrota keep its files?
Section titled “Where does crewrota keep its files?”Members and ships are in ~/.crewrota (%USERPROFILE%\.crewrota on Windows), or CREWROTA_HOME; the settings are in %APPDATA%\crewrota\config.json on Windows and ~/.config/crewrota/config.json elsewhere.
See Files and folders.
How do I uninstall crewrota?
Section titled “How do I uninstall crewrota?”npm uninstall --global crewrota removes the commands.
Your members and ships stay in the crew home and your settings in config.json until you delete those folders yourself; a member folder holds links to ships and to ~/.claude, so remove the links first (crew drop and crew ship delete do that and move the folders to removed/).
See Install crewrota.