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

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

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Post by mystraline »

genewitch wrote: post #246
aanet wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

^ THIS I've run out of quota on my Pro plan so many times in the past 2-3 weeks. This seems to be a recent occurrence. And I'm not even that active. Just one project, execute in Plan > Develop > Test mode, just one terminal. That's it. I keep getting a quota reset every few hours. What's happening @Anthropic ?? Anybody here who can answer??

sounds like the "thinking tokens" are a mechanism to extract more money from users?

Its the clanker version of the "Check Wallet Light" (check engine light).

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

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Post by measurablefunc »

tlogan wrote: post #240

Can someone explain what he was actually doing here? Was the issue that he was reselling these Claude.md files, or that he was selling project setup or creation services to his clients? Or maybe all scaffolding activity (back and forth) looked like automated usage?

Only people who work at Anthropic know why the account was flagged & banned & they will never tell you.

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

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Post by olalonde »

renewiltord wrote: post #239
olalonde wrote: post #232

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You can just clear the context or restart your Claude instance between tasks. e.g.: > do task 1 ...task fails... > please update Claude.md so you don't make X mistake > /clear > do task 2 ... task fails ... > please update Claude.md so you don't make Y mistake > /clear etc. If you want a clean state between tasks you can just commit your Claude.md and `git reset --hard`. I just don't get why you'd need have to a sepa…

Presumably they didn't want to sit there and monitor Claude Code doing this for each of the 14 things they want done. Using a harness around Claude Code (or its SDK) is perfectly sane for this. I do it routinely. You just automate the entire process so that if you change APIs or you change the tasks, the harness can run and ensure that all of your sets are correctly re-done. Sitting there and manually typing in "do t…

They said they were copy/pasting back and forth. But regardless, what do you mean by "harness" and "sets"? Are you referring to a specific tool that orchestrates Claude Code instances? This is not terminology I'm familiar with in this context. If you have any link that explains what you are talking about, would be appreciated.

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

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Post by llIIllIIllIIl »

I had very similar experience with my disabled organization on another provider. After 3 hours of my script sending commands to gemini-cli for execution i got disabled and then in 2 days my gmail was disabled. Good thing that it was disposable account, not the primary one.

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

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Post by measurablefunc »

This is very cool. I looked at the Claude.md he was generating and it is basically all of Claude's failure modes in one file. I can think of a few reasons why Anthropic would not want this information out in the open or for someone to systematically collate all the data into one file.

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

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Post by inimino »

measurablefunc wrote: post #262
tlogan wrote: post #240

Can someone explain what he was actually doing here? Was the issue that he was reselling these Claude.md files, or that he was selling project setup or creation services to his clients? Or maybe all scaffolding activity (back and forth) looked like automated usage?

Only people who work at Anthropic know why the account was flagged & banned & they will never tell you.

...if anyone.

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

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Post by genewitch »

NewJazz wrote: post #168
OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #162

I had my Claude Code account banned a few months ago. Contacted support and heard nothing. Registered a new account and been doing the same thing ever since - no issues.

Did you have to use a different phone number? Last time I tried using Claude they wouldn't accept my jmp.chat number.

nothing makes me more wary of a company than one that doesn't let me use my 20 year old VoIP number for SMS. Twitter, instagram (probably FB, if they ever do a "SMS 2fa" or whatever for me i imagine i'll lose my account forever), and a few others i can't think of offhand right now.

i've had the same phone numbers via this same VoIP company for ~20 years (2007ish). for these data hoovering companies to not understand that i'm not a scammer presents to me like it's all smoke and mirrors, held together with bailing wire, and i sure do hope they enjoy their yachts.

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

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Post by vunderba »

genewitch wrote: post #246
aanet wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

^ THIS I've run out of quota on my Pro plan so many times in the past 2-3 weeks. This seems to be a recent occurrence. And I'm not even that active. Just one project, execute in Plan > Develop > Test mode, just one terminal. That's it. I keep getting a quota reset every few hours. What's happening @Anthropic ?? Anybody here who can answer??

sounds like the "thinking tokens" are a mechanism to extract more money from users?

Anecdotally but it definitely feels like in the last couple weeks CC tends to be more aggressive at pulling in significantly larger chunks of an existing code base - even for some simple queries I'll see it easily ramp up to 50-60k token usage.

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

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Post by loopdoend »

throwup238 wrote: post #195
sixtyj wrote: post #149

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They whistleblowed themselves that Claude Cowork was coded by Claude Code… :)

You can tell they’re all vibe coded. Claude iOS app, Claude on the web (including Claude Code on the web) and Claude Code are some of the buggiest tools I have ever had to use on a daily basis. I’m including monstrosities like Altium and Solidworks and Vivado in the mix - software that actually does real shit constrained by the laws of physics rather than slinging basic JSON and strings around over HTTP. It’s an utte…

Single nine reliability would be 90% uptime lol. For 99.9% we call it triple 9 reliability.

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

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Post by nofriend »

fluoridation wrote: post #237
mattnewton wrote: post #235

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Then I’m confused about what is confusing you haha. The absurd language is meant to highlight the absurdity they feel over the vague terms in their sparse communication with anthropic. It worked for me.

Because what is meant by "this organization has been disabled" is fairly obvious. The object in Anthropic's systems belonging to the class Organization has changed to the state Disabled, so the call cannot be executed. Anthropic itself is not an organization in this sense, nor is Google, so I would say that referring to them as "non-disabled organizations" is an equivocation fallacy. Besides that, I can't tell if it'…

>To me it's just obtuseness for the sake of itself.

ironic, isn't it?

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