> Ability to use the plan outside of the official harness. Codex wins. Anthropic does shit like bills requests as extra usage if it sees a hermes.md in a commit.

I'm quite puzzled about why Anthropic is so hellbent on blocking other coding agents. It's not like Claude Code has any secret sauce, right? And doesn't Anthropic make monkey off API usage, and their magic is on the model side anyway?

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glub 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's for lock-in - same reason why it took them so long to finally support AGENTS.md.

But to be fair, they don't really enforce the harness rule that much anymore. I guess if your harness doesn't do a lot of weird things like a lot of cache misses, or triggers some distillation attacks, or some broader Chinese fingerprints, they're tongue-in-cheek okay with you using a third party harness.

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codybontecou 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You can use Claude’s subscription in Pi now? Last I tried it opted for extra usage.

	▲	glub 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not natively, as it's still a ToS violation and adding that in pi would go against pi principles, but there are many plugins/proxies that make it work. oh-my-pi supports it natively (again, still a ToS violation), by impersonating claude code's fingerprints. I have been using oh-my-pi with 3 claude subs for the past few months without any issues. Even native server-side OAI/ANT compaction works out of the box.

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InsideOutSanta 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They want to lock people into using the Claude Code ecosystem to make switching to other providers more difficult.