Anthropic keeps conflating two distinct strategies — be the best model for developers to build on, or be the company that ships Claude Code. Those two have opposite policy conclusions. Restricting third-party harnesses maximizes Claude Code revenue; allowing them maximizes model-layer lock-in through developer habit. The whiplash is the symptom of not picking. Pick for crying out loud!

Can we get OpenCode support back as well?

Did they disable this to give them time to come out with their own agent?

Uh, what? For the love of God can I make my own harness or not? Or is this just saying you can use it only in API mode?

I have had some ideas for a custom harness (like embedding some tools OOTB and replacing slow tooling) but these policies throw me off. Instead I use local models.

Problem is API costs are insane. I have toyed with the idea of running a local model that works with Claude Sonnet or even Haiku, and I know this has been done by others.

Probably somewhat worried about users shifting to the Grok API if they have to

How about third party coding harnesses?

Canceled anyway.

The problem is these tools are so important I'm never going to risk Anthropic blocking my account now after the last debacle. So I'll be used OpenAI with OpenClaw. Hard to win back trust.

Bad Decision.

And tomorrow, it won't be allowed any more and accounts will be closed without prior notice.

Use something else.