You can no longer use your Claude Max plan in anything other than Claude Code. Anthropic, please stop shooting yourselves in the foot.

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Anthropic has restricted Claude Code subscription tokens from being used with third-party tools like Open Code and Claudebot, forcing users to only use their official harness. This move breaks existing workflows where developers were using their $100-200/month subscriptions across multiple tools. The restriction appears designed to lock users into Anthropic's closed-source ecosystem while they allow usage through their own closed-source Agent SDK. OpenAI responded by officially supporting Open Code integration with ChatGPT subscriptions. The decision has damaged Anthropic's reputation among developers who see it as anti-competitive and contrary to open development practices.

Anthropic just burned so much trust...

Blocking third-party tools isn’t safety. It’s insulation.

AFAIK, they’ve not blocked any legitimate 3rd-party tools…like the VSCode, JetBrains AI assistant, Cursor all would work all ok. The only ones that are blocked are those which impersonate Claude Code tool and abuse the Anthropic resources and capacity. That isn’t something wrong, is it?
If the these offending 3rd-party clients like OpenCode and Claudebot are spoofing themselves as Claude Code, why don’t we question that? Why can’t those tools advertize themselves as proper 3rd party clients and stop masquerading as Claude Code to bypass the limits?AFAIK, they’ve not blocked any legitimate 3rd-party tools…like the VSCode, JetBrains AI assistant, Cursor all would work all ok. The only ones that are blocked are those which impersonate Claude Code tool and abuse the Anthropic resources and capacity. That isn’t something wrong, is it?
If the these offending 3rd-party clients like OpenCode and Claudebot are spoofing themselves as Claude Code, why don’t we question that? Why can’t those tools advertize themselves as proper 3rd party clients and stop masquerading as Claude Code to bypass the limits?