Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
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19 comments
April 21, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (9 comments)
throwup238
I don’t think I’ve seen a more confused and shambolic product strategy since Google’s absurd line of GChat rebrandings. Last year I was excited about the constant forward progress on models but since February or so its just been a mess and I want off this ride. Either way I’m going to wait for “official” word from Anthropic, which I guess at this point will probably be a “Tell HN” or Reddit text post or a Xitter from some random employee’s personal account, because apparently that’s the state of corporate communication now.
jollymonATX
How can they be this bad at this? What was all that about then?
imron
Can we get OpenCode support back as well?
swyx
a more authoritative source (aka a tweet) woudl be nice.
dmazin
I got sick of the inconsistency caused by Anthropic tinkering with Claude Code and had canceled my 20x. My plan was to switch to Codex so I could use it in Pi. I wonder how many other people recently did the same. It would be prudent of Anthropic to let people use Pro/Max OAuth tokens with other harnesses I think. Even though I get why they want to own the eyeballs.
brandensilva
The sentient had already sailed. It's hard to trust Anthropic here given the ringer they have dragged us through. Contrast that to what GitHub did which was to pause new customers to ensure quality remained and things were stable.
darylteo
Correction: OpenClaw says Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is okay again.
arjie
Oh that's interesting. Right after they signed the deal with Amazon so maybe it was all compute constrained. In any case, I tried using the Codex $20/mo plan and the limits are so low I can hardly get anywhere before my agent swaps to a different agent. Somewhat suspicious that if I do this without an official Anthropic notice I'll lose my precious Max $200/mo account so I'll sit tight perhaps for a while.
jarym
Pfft. Damage done, users know that Anthrophic will pull the rug from under them again if given half a chance. So yea, plan accordingly.