I reproduced this on my account.

    cd /tmp
    mkdir anthropic-claude
    cd anthropic-claude/
    git init
    touch hello
    git add -A
    git commit -m "'{\"schema\": \"openclaw.inbound_meta.v1\"}'"
    claude -p "hi"

Claude.ai is now at a 98.85% uptime. There's been so many frustrations with Claude / Anthropic lately (very heavy usage limits, wrong A / B testing, etc.).

Claude status: https://status.claude.com/

I have been really happy with my Codex subscription lately, but feels like these things change every other day. The OpenCode Go subscription for trying out GLM, Kimi, Qwen, Deepseek and friends also looks useful.

But nonetheless, Opus 4.6 is a very capable model, but justifying a Claude subscription gets more and more difficult, think I might just sometimes use it through OpenRouter or as part of something like Cursor (although I'm not sure about the value of that subscription as well).

OpenCode Go: https://opencode.ai/go

Cursor: https://cursor.com

I think it goes beyond this. I was just using claude to edit a blog post which mentioned OpenClaw and I got this response: "The "OpenClaw" reference — I assume that's a typo or playful reference; if you mean a real product, I couldn't find it under that spelling and you'll want to fix or footnote it.". I gave it a direct link to openclaw.ai and the chat instantly ended and hit my 5hr usage limit. Could have been a coincidence, but I had only lightly been using sonnet in the morning so it seems unlikely. Very odd.

This is very concerning. Their heavy handed tactics haven't impacted me personally yet but I am increasingly nervous and casting about for viable egress paths if I need to flee Claude Code. I really hope they pump the breaks and thoroughly reorient themselves. They are under a lot of competing pressures and probably can't make a decision that won't upset a lot of people (in order to balance growth and capacity etc), but are coming to the worst possible conclusions.

For instance, maybe you can't afford to take on more customers right now, Anthropic. Maybe if you are severely undermining the customer relationships you already have, you should just admit you can't sell any more 20x plans right now and only accept new customers at lower tiers until you have the necessary capacity.

This is also a DoS you could drive a truck through, and it's disturbing such an obvious vulnerability was shipped at all.

So what's next ... they are going to charge you a 30% commission on your sales for products build with their tools?

I really want to stick with A\ given everything known about Altman, but man are they speedrunning the "how to destroy your reputation" guidebook.

I'm stepping away from LLMs in general and did cancel Claude code subscription this month because I respect myself very much and I deserve a better and transparent treatment.

If you must - in my experience Deepseek v4 is incredible value in every aspect. Pricing is transparent.

But like I said, I have funds in different AI gateways but I'm preferring to write by hand because I don't want surprising bugs and unnecessary code in my end result.

That’s incredibly frustrating.

I’ve got a NixOS Qemu VM I use to run openclaw in. I had Claude help me set it up, and it runs local models on my own machine in a config based sandbox.

Why should Claude block or charge extra to work on that?

Why should Claude care if I have instructions for Hermes or OpenClaw in my project repos?

This fingerprinting is incredibly sloppy for how much access to a machine Claude code has.

I find it incredibly that after all the good faith Claude Code built during 2025 they are destroying users trust is such amateurish ways (same as hermes.md)

Things like these (Google also banned me from Antigravity for briefly using an agent) and the massive quality swings made me cancel all 3 subs last week and resort to my local Qwen 3.6 only. Open models are already great and only getting better, and I really enjoy the privacy and consistency of a model I run myself.

That is a huge red-flag. While I understand that they will do some policing/censoring, this is way beyond what I would consider acceptable.

They can have a different price plan for agentic stuff, but these things where they “accidentally” whoops match on specific keywords and trigger extra usage charges is giving a evil-microsoft-vibe

same vain as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952722 ?

  HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing  
  1203 points | 21 hours ago | 524 comments

They are trying to make a moat where no possibility of creating a moat exists.

It’s a huge mistake at the level of IBM trying to reestablish dominance over PCs by making MicroChannel the new standard; this failed horribly and cost IBM its market leadership and reputation.

MCA was technically better at the time, but the industry responded with EISA and VLBus which led to PCI and today’s PCIe.

https://xcancel.com/theo/status/2049645973350363168

I hereby propose we rename the HN frontpage to "Claude Customer Support"

why do people want to continue to use anthropic despite their shitty service? its not like they have some kind of lock-in as it is still new company and it has shown its color before we are stuck with it unlike google/meta etc.

It sounds like Anthropic is dangerously low on compute availability if they’re prioritizing these refusals as their OKRs.

At least we can assume that Anthropic eats their own dog food. They use Claude to develop their software.

When compute poverty hits these big labs it’s all going to be the same. The ping pong tables and drinks fridges disappear.

The only thing they can hope for is to maintain momentum and critical mass long enough to find ways to pay for all this or have Moores law make the average user request become economical.

I don't understand how, having access to Mythos and unlimited use, their solution to open harnesses is lazy string regex-style matching.

i wouldn't be surprised if we see class action lawsuits from this given it's so easily reproducible by so many

Anthropic is losing a ton of goodwill by not being more honest about their constraints. They've been buckling under load for months, and instead of doing the most honest thing (keep weekly usage limits same, make 5 hour usage limits have surge pricing where the usage-cost of X tokens is scaled based on dynamic load), they're doing a lot of hacky things to try to get a similar effect. I suspect they feel the optics of being honest would be too bad, so instead it's a slow bleed where they piss off users one by one

Highly relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal–agent_problem

(You're the principal, directing what to do, but your agent Anthropic has its own motivations that are not aligned with your will.)

Ok I am usually defending Anthropic, but it seems like this OpenClaw and Hermes ban was implemented incredibly poorly; it looks like a simple regex.

Didn’t they think about “we need to make sure Claude Code is never banned” ? Could have been as easy as including some Claude Code specific prompting traits (tools, system prompt, whatever) in there and automatically whitelisting it.

Is it foolproof? No. Will it avoid banning legit users? Absolutely.

First do the first large sweep, then see what still falls through, then ban those.

It really seems they were panicking due to capacity and there was very little oversight with all this.

I’m not affected but pretty disappointed.

do they literally just have a regex match for all of their competitor harnesses?

But Peter Steinberger said that openclaw was “fully supported” with a subscription through claude -p.

Do these refusals still happen if you’re using an API key instead?

So I suppose Anthropic lied to him?

I love their vibe coded "anti-abuse" systems :D

I think that’s an ok move, definitely better than canceling code on pro users for example, I would support to even have a new pricing tier only for openclaw, so they don’t ruin the usage on others. I noticed the ones who use claude code usually are software developers or sysadmins, meanwhile most openclaw ones are your average HR stacy and lazy middle managers, so yeah, it should be a separate tier for them.

Oh come on Anthropic, just admit straight away that any other pricing than usage-based is completely unsustainable and is being phased out.. maybe doing it once but officially could save you some brand damage.

Interesting people talking about whether they should be "defended," here or whatnot, and all of that strikes me as wildly naive.

They have a business model that's more or less known, and that includes THEIR AI model(s) that they get to put out there however they want. I don't like it much at all, I actually sort of like the idea that they "owe" more because they probably "stole" a bunch of stuff to get the thing going.

But I mean, don't be mad, be proactive. Anthropic is going to try to Microsoft this in whatever way possible, and we all see that the numbers don't really add up.

Asking them pretty please to be nicer, meh. Let's figure out better, and more free-software-like ways to do this.

I like how Anthropic and Dario are saying humans are going to be automated, AI will change everything and are also instantly banning people that touch claude code wrong without warning. I got banned by them and I was just using it for coding, no agents! So in the new AI world where nobody can get a job I'm forever relegated to being an untouchable because I can't use AI /s.

I have a suspicion for why I was banned, I was using claude code programmatically as documented https://code.claude.com/docs/en/headless which must have triggered their vibe coded abuse detection algorithm. I was using it for coding, not for any agents and I was still banned.

I'm very happy gpt 5.5 came out and is better than opus 4.7.

the most relevant person on this industry Theo - t3.gg /s

openClaw does so muhc more then Claude code tbh, running 9 agents from the one machine, schedual some tasks, add some personal personas for each agent, claudeCode (which i like alot) is on rails, openClaw is full openworld.

rate the analogy plz..