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Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

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Post by meeq »

deveworld wrote: post #192

The fix has been merged in https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode-anthropic-auth/pull/11 , and PR https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/pull/7432 is open to bump the version. Until it's released, here's a workaround: 1. git clone https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode-anthropic-auth.git 2. Add to ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json: "plugin": ["file:///path/to/opencode-anthropic-auth/index.mjs"] 3. Run: OPENCODE_DISABLE_D…

Anthropic shot themselves in the foot with this decision. It‘s a PR nightmare and at the same time the open source community will always find a way. They just wasted everyone‘s time and likely lost a bunch of users while doing so.

Thank you for sharing this!

Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

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Post by aserafini »

CoolCold wrote: post #206

Genuine question, as someone who never used Claude Code, but used OpenCode/Aider/GeminiCli - as many here say Opencode is better, mind sharing why (from end user perspective)? I was thinking to try Claude Code later and may reconsider doing so.

I experimented with Claude Code but returned to the familiar Aider which existed before all of these tools AFAIK.

You’ll notice people in Aider GitHub issues being concerned about its rather conservative pace of change, lack of plug-in ecosystem. But I actually started to appreciate these constraints as a way to really familiarise myself with the core “edit files in a loop with an end goal” that is the essence of all agent coding.

Anytime I feel a snazzy feature is lacking from Aider I think about it and realise I can already solve it in Aider by changing the problem to editing a file in a loop.

Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

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Post by vinhnx »

dboon wrote: post #15

This is an unusual L for Anthropic. The unfortunate truth is that the engineering in opencode is so far ahead of Claude Code. Obviously, CC is a great tool, but that's more about the magic of the model than the engineering of the CLI. The opencode team[^1][^2] built an entire custom TUI backend that supports a good subset of HTML/CSS and the TypeScript ecosystem (i.e. not tied to Opencode, a generic TUI renderer). Th…

> The unfortunate truth is that the engineering in opencode is so far ahead of Claude Code

I'm curious, what made you think of that?

Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

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Post by _bobm »

BoiledCabbage wrote: post #153
dboon wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you like or dislike Diet Coke? At some point, saying what I think is embarrassing is equivalent to saying why. But, to accept your good faith olive branch, one more go: AI is a space full of grift and real potential. Anthropic's pitch is that the potential is really real. So real, in fact, that it will alter what it means to write software. It's a big claim. But a simple way to validate it would be to see if A…

Thanks, while we in the end may not agree - I do feel I understand your thinking now. Also agreed, we've probably reached the fruitful end of this discussion and this will be my last reply on it. I'll explain my thoughts similarly as you. To me it seems more akin to someone saying "I'm launching a restaurant. I'll give you a free meal if you come and give me feedback on the dish, the decor, service...". This happens…

But you are not having a free meal lunch are you? You _are paying_ for your meal.

Worse: you are the meal as well.

Do you see this?

Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

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Post by dannersy »

muppetman wrote: post #148

I feel like I'm the only person on this site that doesn't use AI for coding. I guess there's probably a lot of other people that haven't commented on this story who don't use it either. But when I read about how much hype and all that sort of stuff there is in the AI industry, and then I see the amount of posts and commentary and deep technical discussion about how this feature has affected people, I'm not so sure. E…

I share your experience. Additionally, I am surprised anyone on this site did not see this progression coming. Between costs, the race to be THE provider, and anyone who has an awareness of how the tech industry has been operating the last 15 years, this move by Anthropic was so laughably predictable that the discourse in this thread is pretty disappointing.

Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

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Post by bazhand »

FWIW this isn’t new, using a Claude/Max subscription auth token as a general-purpose “API key” has been known (and blocked) for ages. OpenCode basically had to impersonate the official Claude Code client to make that work, and it always felt like a loophole that would get patched eventually.

This is exactly why (when OpenCode and Charm/Crush started diverging) Charm chose not to support “use your Claude subscription” auth and went in a different direction (BYOK / multi-provider / etc). They didn’t want to build a product on top of a fragile, unofficial auth path.

And I think there’s a privacy/policy reason tightening this now too: the recent Claude Code update (2.1-ish) pops a “Help improve Claude” prompt in the terminal. If you turn that ON, retention jumps from 30 days to up to 5 years for new/resumed chats/coding sessions (and data can be used for model improvement). If you keep it OFF, you stay on the default 30-day retention. You can also delete data anytime in settings. That consent + retention toggle is hard to enforce cleanly if you’re not in an official client flow, so it makes sense they’re drawing a harder line.

Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

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Post by realharo »

_flux wrote: post #229
realharo wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The endgame is a small background agent that runs Claude Code every once in a while, inspects its traffic, and adjusts on the fly.

Then they'd start pinning certs and hiding keys inside the obfuscated binary to make traffic inspection harder? And if an open source tool would start to use those keys, their CI could just detect this automatically and change the keys and the obfuscation method. Probably quite doable with LLMs..

Without breaking legitimate clients?

At some point it becomes easier to just reevaluate the business model. Or just make a superior product.

Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

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Post by chrisvalleybay »

nake89 wrote: post #212
cloudking wrote: post #198

Why is OpenCode better than Claude Code?

Works with several providers (e.g. Github copilot or bring your own key). They offer a server and an sdk, so you can build all kinds of personal tools. It's amazing.

Very interesting! What do you mean by personal tools? Do you have any examples of something you've built with this?

Re: Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

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Post by oblio »

ChicagoDave wrote: post #183
dboon wrote: post #15

This is an unusual L for Anthropic. The unfortunate truth is that the engineering in opencode is so far ahead of Claude Code. Obviously, CC is a great tool, but that's more about the magic of the model than the engineering of the CLI. The opencode team[^1][^2] built an entire custom TUI backend that supports a good subset of HTML/CSS and the TypeScript ecosystem (i.e. not tied to Opencode, a generic TUI renderer). Th…

Or just maybe submit feature requests instead of backdooring a closed source system.

All the TUI agents are awful at scrolling. I'm on Ubuntu 24.04 and both Claude Code and Gemini CLI absolutely destroy scrolling. I've tested Claude Code in the VS Code and it's better there, but in the Gnome Terminal it's plain unusable.

And a lot of people are reporting scrolling issues.

As someone was saying, it's like they don't have access to the world's best coding LLM to debug these issues.

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