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Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

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There is no "if". They could. There's no separation between parts of the prompt. You sneak that text in, anywhere, and it'll work. Whether Anthropic is using a regex or some LLM to detect the mentions of OpenClaw doesn't even matter. > Your project isn't going to get many AI PRs if just cloning your project wiped out their quota. With how many projects automatically AI-review PRs, they're just sitting ducks. You don'…

You don't even need to put it in a project, put it in all your blog posts as invisible (white font white background) text, and if Claude winds up reading your website as part of a research task, you basically bricked someone's Claude session. Why is it amateur hour at Anthropic lately?

I saw a similar shift at a another company when the VCs brought in new, incompetent management after it had gotten successful and started piling on industrial levels of pressure.

My bet would be that a lot of the ICs and managers who made anthropic what it is have been sidelined and investor yes-men with puffy resumes are now running things while investors panicked about high interest rates breathe down their neck.

Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

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> I don't know what "openclaw" is. It's not something I have knowledge of, and it doesn't appear in your memory or this project's context. As others have pointed out, Anthropic is allowed to have TOS, even if we disagree with it. But having Claude deny the existence of OpenClaw is a way more hazardous and likely straight up violates Claude's Constitution: https://www.anthropic.com/constitution

Come on, folks. This is not a conspiracy. LLMs have a knowledge cutoff date. Opus 4.7's documented cutoff date is in January. Older Claude models are earlier than that. OpenClaw didn't have the name OpenClaw until January 30th. So indeed, even the latest Claude model does not know what OpenClaw is, unless you have it do a web search. If you have it search, it'll happily tell you all about it.

Is the behavior the same with other unknown words? Certainly doesn't seem so from other comments.

Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

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Same experience for me. I think people need to start providing context for the type of work they're doing when repeating the local model hype. Maybe they're working with a cookie cutter React app and it does the job fine.

I work on Go and Rust mostly. The experience can be wildly different based on model, quantization, and harness. The fact that it didn't work for you doesn't mean everyone is trying to hype local models, people are getting real work done.

Go and Rust is not really a type of work though. What tasks are you throwing at them?

Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

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I don't understand how, having access to Mythos and unlimited use, their solution to open harnesses is lazy string regex-style matching.

I saw a talk by Boris where he said, basically that Claude codes itself now. They have it automatically writing features and reviewing PRs, apparently. I suspect that much of the code has never been seen by human eyes within Anthropic.

What are all their SWEs doing, if Claude is coding itself? And why are there hundreds of open SWE positions on their careers page?

Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

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Dragons steal gold and jewels... and they guard their plunder as long as they live... and never enjoy a brass ring of it. Indeed they hardly know a good bit of work from a bad, though they usually have a good notion of the market value

My theory is the dragons actually benefit immensely from sitting atop the gold piles as it acts as an amazing heat sink. I don’t think that really fits with the metaphor but I wanted to say my piece regardless.

People I wouldn't focus on heat sinking. I would focus on hoarding! Not letting others to share their precious things with them

Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

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My assumption is that a lot of these checks and changes lately are not well though out. They are knee jerk reaction to address something which was not anticipated in the original design. A lot of these changes to address scaling and abuse challenges probably fall into bucket of applying bandages on top of bandages. Maybe if Claude could build something to validate the baseline quality of the product to ensure these t…

Worse than that, these are all vibe coded changes. If you look at any public Anthropocene codebase, they are all vibe coded messes with no coherent vision. I was looking at the Claude Code GitHub Action and it is a mess of options that don’t exist together, unclear documentation, and usage story being terribly unclear.

People say that a mostly-vibed project will collapse under its own weight. I personally doubt it, but I will be amused if the first big one falls this way is Claude Code itself.

Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

#639
I think it's more over claude code cli thing we can still use api within the subscription (no extra cost associated) Try getting access token from the system keychain (under the "Claude Code-credentials" entry) and replaying it with specific headers (system: [ {"type":"text","text":"x-anthropic-billing-header: cc_version=2.1.118.f05; cc_entrypoint=sdk-cli; cch=8c860;"}, {"type":"text","text":"You are a Claude agent."} ]) On v1/messages api with model of your choice it works I have tried.

Re: Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

#640

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Good luck, I'm naming all my variables openclaw1, openclaw2, etc

find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/openclaw/openlcaw/g' {} + Fine.

and then we start to embed comments

// concatenate pairs of parameters, e.g. x and y become xy

// the pairing of open and claw is vital to understanding the function

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