Feature request: convenient sign-in and reconnection for individual providers

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Problem

Claude accounts frequently lose authentication while being used through T3 Code. With multiple separately configured provider accounts, recovering access becomes particularly cumbersome: the user has to leave T3 Code and manually sign each affected account back in.

T3 Code shows which providers are not authenticated, but the user needs a convenient way to reconnect each one individually from inside the app.

Reporter environment and observed behavior

The following details describe the reporter's local setup only. This is a general provider-reconnection feature request, not a Windows-specific issue, and no comparison with other operating systems has been performed.

• Operating system used by the reporter: Windows 10 (x64).
• T3 Code server 0.1.6.
• Claude Code 2.1.316.
• Multiple Claude provider instances with separate account configuration directories.

In the checked setup, one profile remained authenticated while three others were signed out. Independent CLI authentication-status checks against each profile also reported those three as not authenticated. This confirms that the observed signed-out state was not merely an incorrect T3 status indicator.

The user reports that this happens frequently. Repeating the external login procedure for several separate accounts interrupts work and makes account recovery unnecessarily tedious.

Possible causes ? not established

Possible factors include account use elsewhere, periods of inactivity, or Anthropic session-expiry, revocation, or token-refresh policies. These are hypotheses only: no specific policy, correlation, or root cause has been verified. T3 Code has not been established as the cause or ruled out as a contributor.

Determining why authentication is lost is separate from this feature request. A convenient way to sign back in is useful regardless of the cause.

Requested feature

Please provide a convenient way to sign back in or reconnect each provider individually from within T3 Code.

With multiple configured accounts, the user should be able to identify the disconnected provider, reconnect that specific account conveniently, and return to work. This request describes the desired user-facing capability; it does not prescribe a technical implementation or UI design.

Related reports and PRs

References checked on November 1, 2026:

• Issue #7878 already reported missing actionable recovery from Claude authentication failures. It is closed as completed; the closing maintainer comment refers to Orchestrator V2, PR #2829, which was merged. This request acknowledges that existing report.
• PR #10321 was merged and improves authentication-failure messages and external login guidance. It does not add an in-app relogin action.
• Issue #9607, concerning threads remaining signed out after an external re-login, was closed during the V2 transition. Issue #18554 reports that behavior on V2 and remains open.
• PR #18558 remains open and addresses recovering existing threads after an external re-login. That recovery is related to the requested ability to reconnect individual providers conveniently, but does not itself provide an in-app relogin action.
• Discussion #17117 proposes sharing provider authentication across environments. This request concerns reconnecting individual providers in an existing setup.

Verification limits

The signed-out state was independently confirmed. The cause of authentication loss, behavior after a successful re-login, and the changes in PR #18558 have not been tested locally.