Comment by Wowfunhappy

3 days ago

Claude is a UNIX command line tool with an SDK. Yes there's an interactive mode, but it can be invoked as a normal utility too, and piped to other tools and so on.

In that context, I don't understand the difference between a "third party harness" and a shell script.

How are they even detecting OpenClaw?

Im wondering this too. If I have my own local platform similar in nature to openclaw, and am leveraging claude -p through my subscription, is this now against ToS? Or is this just a ban specific to certain services? In which case they're saying 'use -p until you scale and then we'll hammer you'. Either way what a pita.

They have terms to not allow `claude -p` used like that. However, people can hide this with the leaked source code. What a funny cat-and-mouse game!

  • > They have terms to not allow `claude -p` used like that.

    Like what? I legitimately don't understand what is prohibited. Using claude as part of a shell script? Am I only allowed to use claude if a physically type the commands into a terminal via my keyboard? Why even ship `claude -p` at all?

I guess Anthropic will scrutinize big open source projects for that purpose. The direct official integrations will be removed.