Comment by theahura

I wrote a response here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602206) but TLDR, no they didn't. These third-party clients are competitors and capitalists. They raised money from institutional investors, and are trying to get Anthropic to subsidize their growth, which Anthropic is not at all obligated to do. One could maybe argue that this was an honest mistake, but then you probably shouldn’t have a file called ‘anthropic_spoof.txt’ in your repo with the line “You are Claude Code, Anthropic’s official CLI for Claude”, which you then use to bypass oauth.

I think these third party clients put their customers at risk. Most of them likely did not realize that the tools were doing something that violated ToS. Using these tools put many of those users at risk of account bans and risk Anthropic pulling the plug entirely and raising prices, which would be bad for everyone