Is This The End for OpenClaw?

Anthropic now blocks first party harnesses too. So, Claude P append system prompt which it does what it says on the tin. You're appending to the system prompt a personal system running inside open claw. And then they're asking the question is Claude here and then they got a 400 [snorts] third party apps now draw from your extra usage not your plan limits. So, I ran that just now before the show and it ran fine cuz inside of your Claude settings you'll have this thing called extra usage and you can top that up with money and you'll you'll have a little purse and whatever. Yeah. Top that with extra usage, you switch it on and then whenever it's detected it's going to use that or you go over your max subscription, you know, you use up your limits. It's going to draw from that purse. It's obviously doing it in a in a different way now, maybe headers, maybe something else. But simply mentioning that open claw isn't enough to trigger that build extra usage cuz it my terminal was able to detect it's not running inside open claw cuz it allowed me to use it under my subscription. Do you know what I mean? Didn't I I turned billing off. Yeah, so this extra usage here if that was turned off and you mentioned open claw in the system prompt, it wouldn't let you use it. Then you switch that bad boy on and then you're able to use open claw if you mention it. Again, obviously open claw is being detected cuz now whether it's on or off you can still use it. They're they're they're kind of laying the smack down on all of this. I don't know whether they've stopped but you're able to go into your billing, your usage and claim the equivalent of your plan in billing credit. So, I only have the $19 a month plan. So, I was able to claim $19. If you go on the $200 a month plan plan you can claim $200 of credit. You see, it says zero euros spent but I have 170 euros of balance but I have used all of it. So, how does that make sense? These three things don't make sense. What's next to your [clears throat] adjust limit? What's next to that? Zero. Adjust limit. Yeah, adjust your limit. Put your limit to 50 or something. Just put your limit to something. 50. Set spend limit. Cuz if you There you go. So, the resets, you're saying that you're only allowed to spend 50 euros, whatever's next to that per month and then it will reset. If you set this as unlimited If you set this as $1,000 then um whatever. You're you're basically give you're you're putting the parameters in place for yourself and you're saying how much is is available to be used. Okay, so let's say I I I set it to 20 euros. Does that mean that You only 20 euros 20 euros will can only get taken out of that 100 euros per month. So, you'll you put your guardrail in place of 20 euros. It [clears throat] will then reset on May 1st and you'll have another 20 that you can take out. So, it's you just making sure you're Yeah, you're you're being careful. I see what you're saying but it doesn't make sense. Why would they do it this way? I understand what you're saying. you get carried away. In case you get carried Yeah, but this is free money. Yeah, but this is your brain. This is your brain. Your everything max all the time. This is your lemming brain. [laughter] It's not like you you still have that 100 euros. You still have that. You just won't be able to you you take you What you've got set right now is you can only take it out of $20 at a time at per month. You know? Yeah, but that's not how it works in Cursor for example. In Cursor Sure. in Cursor when you have extra spent you you have your monthly subscription but once you run run out of your credits for the month Yeah. you're charged extra and I thought that this would be the same. You might be managing account for someone else and you might want to say to him, "Look, I don't mind if you go over but you know, don't don't go crazy." And you put $20, $10. You might have $1,000 in that current balance just to put it in there and know that they'll be covered for the year but you might think, "Hey, just just don't spend don't go crazy on the monthly." So, it might be that. There might be other reasons why you you you do that but um yeah. Just a just a helpful thing that you might want to take advantage of. Basically, to sum everything up when it comes to this Anthropic blocking open claw you can use your max subscription on uh Claude code or Claude coworker and the desktop app. That's the only place you can use your max subscription. Anywhere else you you use API pricing your charged API pricing. So, they're trying to uh draw you into that ecosystem with that max plan. If you're outside of that ecosystem you can go [ __ ] yourself. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. The last thing just to say on all this actually as well is there's this ambiguity on the terms of service which seems to be something that's going around the houses which uh Tharic and Boris are contradicting each other openly on Twitter. One person saying something is allowed when another person saying no, it's not. Uh it's a bit embarrassing actually but we still don't fully know what is okay when it comes to building tools that leverage Claude code. Now, we talk about T3 code um being okay is because all it's doing under the hood which all most apps are doing under the hood actually is it's calling terminal commands and sending it through to your own instance of Claude code. So, it's not it's not contacting Anthropic directly. It's going through core code and then Claude code is contacting uh Anthropic, right? So, that's how they're able to use it. The ambu ambiguity comes is because that's a personal hobby, that's a personal tool that you use and they're not charging for it. Under the terms of service that becomes as building your own development tools. When you start to talk about commercialized tools and what's being used for commercial and business, I guess um an example I can give is the vibe code app would be that you can build I did a video on it. You can build um apps on your phone that uses Claude code in the cloud. That's that's not allowed to I wonder what they're doing actually. That's not allowed anymore cuz that's a commercial piece of software that they're charging and subsidizing their own Claude max subscription in order to help you build your own tools. So, yeah, still all up in the air. Um it's a bit of a mess. This is part of a large conversation on my show Command AI which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web. Catch us next week and join in the banter. Command AI.