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darkwateryesterday at 9:31 PM3 repliesview on HN

And they can ban your account if they think you are doing that. I think someone even commented here on HN they were banned by Anthropic for this.


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mirzapyesterday at 9:43 PM

Why would they have that feature in claude code cli if it goes against the ToS? You can use Claude Code programatically. This is not the issue. The issue is that Anthropic wants to lock you in within their dev ecosystem (like Apple does). Simple as that.

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joshstrangeyesterday at 9:50 PM

I don't know why this is downvoted, see my nephew (?) comment [0] for a longer version, but this is not at all clear IMHO. I'm not sure if a "claude -p" on a cron is allowed or not with my subscription, if I run it on another server is it? Can I parse the output of claude (JSON) and have another "claude -p" instance work on the response? It's only a hop, skip, and a jump over to OpenClaw it seems, which is _not_ allowed. But at what point did we cross the line?

It feels like the only safe thing to do is use Claude Code, which, thankfully, I find tolerable, but unfortunate.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446703

stainablesteelyesterday at 9:55 PM

is this against their tos or something? what did they expect programmers to do, not automate the automated code-writer?