What is third party? If I self-host OpenClaw, is that third party?

If I write my own harness, is that third party?

Insane policy

Why bother creating a CLI and OAuth interface if your ToS punishes for using it

It comes down to whether the OAuth token generated by their client is used only in their client.

If you register a new OAuth client and generate access tokens for it to call the API, then you are following the rules.