[bluegatty]

If you buy a 'Season's Pass' for Disneyland, you cant 'sublet' it to another kid to use on the days you don't; It's not really buying a 'daily access rate'.

Anthropic subs are not 'bulk tokens'.

It's not an unreasonable policy and it's entirely inevitable that they have to restrict.

[scwoodal]

I’m not subletting my sub to anyone. I’m the only one using the third party harness.

I’m using their own SDK in my own CLI tool.

[Unearned5161]

It’s not a literal sublet to someone else, it’s subletting your tokens to another tool.

At its core it’s a tragedy of commons situation. Using a third party tool like OpenClaw is augmenting your usage far beyond what was anticipated when the subscription plan was made.

Same deal for unlimited storage on drive until people started abusing it.

[paradox460]

Running with the Disney analogy, it's like if Disney didn't let you wear a shirt with a universal or Warner property on it in their parks

Absurd, and not beyond the realm of possibility

[croes]

It’s still me going to Disneyland, I just take a different route

[JimmaDaRustla]

Disingenuous analogy.

It's more buying a season pass for Disneyland, then getting told you can't park for free if you're entering the park even though free parking is included with the pass. Still not unreasonable, but brings to light the intention of the tool is to force the user into an ecosystem rather.

[bluegatty]

It's not a disingenuous analogy ... whatever it is.

But 'you can't park even though the ticket includes parking' is not an appropriate analogy because 3rd party use is definitely not intended. They did not 'state one thing' and the 'disallow it'.

This is a pretty straight forward case of people using their subscription for 'adjacent' use, and Anthropic being more explicit about it.

There's nothing fancy going on here.