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Signing in again to a Claude Code or Codex account runs the tool’s own sign-in in your browser, as adding an account does. The account keeps its label and its account window. A Claude Desktop account signs in again inside Claude, as Use Pitboard with Claude Desktop shows.

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Signs that an account needs it

pitboard shows one of these after the account’s email, then pitboard enroll work --sign-in:
  • login expired
  • nothing parked
  • login replaced outside Pitboard
In the app, the account’s line reads Sign-in expired, Not signed in or Sign-in no longer works. Pitboard’s menu offers Sign In to work Again, its row in Accounts offers Sign In, and a notification offers Sign In Again. On Windows, and in the tray menu on Linux, the menu names the reason after the account, as in work (sign-in expired). Account status says what each means. A switch to such an account moves nothing and names the same command:
A line that starts ready · expires in names the same command, and the app’s row reads Sign-in expires in 2 days, with Sign In Again. The account still switches until its parked login expires. On Windows, a switch that refuses with credential_sealed needs a sign-in again too: see Parked logins do not open on this PC.

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Sign in again

1

Open the dialog

Click Pitboard’s item in the menu bar, then choose Sign In to work Again. Or, in Accounts, click Sign In on the account’s row, or select the account and click Sign In Again in the inspector.
2

Start the sign-in

In the Sign In to work Again dialog, click Sign In. Your browser opens the tool’s sign-in.
3

Sign in

Sign in as that account. The dialog closes once the tool has the login.
If the browser does not open or a Code field appears, see Add another account. On the command line, write codex/work for a Codex account:
After the sign-in, it prints Renewed work ([email protected]): its parked login is a fresh one. If you sign in as another account, Pitboard keeps nothing from that sign-in:
Start again and sign in as [email protected].

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Sign in again to the account in use

The new login takes the place of the one the tool has, and Pitboard parks nothing. In the app, sign in again from the account’s shortcut menu, as for any account. On Linux, use the account’s menu. After the sign-in, a notice titled Signed in to work says the new sign-in is the one in use. On the command line, pitboard enroll work --sign-in ends with:
Everything that runs Codex keeps the old login until it starts again, and can write it back over the new one when it renews. Restart each as Restart what runs Codex says. Pitboard lists the ones still running.

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If Pitboard cannot identify the login in use

Pitboard replaces the login in use only once it has identified it. When it cannot, it parks the new login, and the tool keeps the one it has. That happens when:
  • The login in use cannot be read or found.
  • A Claude Code login changed since Pitboard last identified it, and Anthropic no longer accepts it or does not answer.
If work is the account Pitboard last recorded in use, it also warns with sign_in_parked_not_in_use. In the app, the notice is titled The new sign-in was saved, not put in use. To keep parked logins from expiring, see Keep parked logins alive.