I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

bow down to our new overlords - dont' like it? banned, with no recourse - enjoy getting left behind, welcome to the future old man

> Like a lot of my peers I was using claude code CLI regularly and trying to understand how far I could go with it on my personal projects. Going wild, with ideas and approaches to code I can now try and validate at a very fast pace. Run it inside tmux and let it do the work while I went on to do something else

This blog post could have been a tweet.

I'm so so so tired of reading this style of writing.

They don't actually know this is why they were banned:

> My guess is that this likely tripped the "Prompt Injection" heuristics that the non-disabled organization has.

> Or I don't know. This is all just a guess from me.

And no response from support.

I didn't even get to send 1 prompt to Claude and my "account has been disabled after an automatic review of your recent activities" back in 2024, still blocked.

Even filled in the appeal form, never got anything back.

Still to this day don't know why I was banned, have never been able to use any Claude stuff. It's a big reason I'm a fan of local LLMs. They'll never be SOTA level, but at least they'll keep chugging along.

This feels... reasonable? You're in their shop (Opus 4.5) and they can kick you out without cause.

But Claude Code (the app) will work with a self-hosted open source model and a compatible gateway. I'd just move to doing that.