Overview
- Claude subscriptions, which stop covering third-party tools like OpenClaw on Saturday at 12 p.m. PT, now exclude all external harnesses.
- Users who still want to run agents can pay through discounted extra-usage bundles tied to their Claude login or use a separate Claude API key.
- Anthropic says these agent tools generate heavy, continuous requests that tax its infrastructure and violate subscription terms of service.
- To ease the shift, the company is granting a one-time credit equal to a monthly plan, offering discounts on overages, and providing full refunds via an email link to affected subscribers.
- OpenClaw, an open-source agent platform that automates tasks like email and calendars, drew pushback from its creator Peter Steinberger, who said he and board member Dave Morin only secured a one-week delay.