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

Post by realusername » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 7:28 PM UTC

cactusplant7374 wrote: post #375

revolvingthrow wrote: post #204

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If openai / anthropic / google were the only game in town then yea, we’d already be paying 5x as much as we do. But local models are so close to sota that it just isn’t going to happen. If I’m a lawyer getting billed $500k/yr on $600k profit I’d rather buy a chonky server and run a model that’s 90% as good and get my money back in 2 years, then pay $5k electricity on $600k profit. Nobody will successfully lobby for b…

Could you really build something sophisticated with a local model? Let's say a linux kernel.

Post by bluefirebrand » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 7:33 PM UTC

amarant wrote: post #338

bluefirebrand wrote: post #324

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Frankly if a project asks for no AI and you try to use AI for it, then you kinda deserve this. Calling the inclusion of this sort of thing "smuggling" is placing the blame in the wrong spot

Even if you don't want prs that are ai assisted, sabotaging anyone who wants to fork your project doesn't really seem to be in the spirit of open source.

Post by robotnikman » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 7:35 PM UTC

abdullin wrote: post #46

I reproduced this on my account. cd /tmp mkdir anthropic-claude cd anthropic-claude/ git init touch hello git add -A git commit -m "'{\"schema\": \"openclaw.inbound_meta.v1\"}'" claude -p "hi" Immediate disconnect and session usage went to 100%

Post by margalabargala » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 7:38 PM UTC

nickthegreek wrote: post #343

margalabargala wrote: post #317

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Sorry, are you claiming that it's illegal (in the US, where Anthropic operates) for Anthropic to decline to operate on a repo that contains commits relating to OpenClaw? Or just that in your opinion, it should be illegal? Simply doing something anticompetitive is not inherently illegal, despite a lot of people thinking it is.

It doesnt decline if you have API billing enabled, it straight up charges your request to API instead of Quota if setup (see $200 charge example below). This is happening if you have the words HERMES.md or OpenClaw apparently in the commit. In OP's example, it immediately depleted his session quota because of the words. That is not 'declining to operate'. Also, remember, it is the presence of the words. So if the com…

Post by khaledh » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 7:39 PM UTC

bluefirebrand wrote: post #324

petercooper wrote: post #232

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I wonder if projects which are anti-AI could place such identifiers surreptitiously into docs or commits as a way to sabotage people using Claude Code. Your project isn't going to get many AI PRs if just cloning your project wiped out their quota.

Frankly if a project asks for no AI and you try to use AI for it, then you kinda deserve this. Calling the inclusion of this sort of thing "smuggling" is placing the blame in the wrong spot