Isn’t this flawed anyway? If an application communicates with Claude Code over ACP (like Zed), it works fine?

Instead of using SDKs, this will just shift the third party clients to use ACP to get around it - Claude Code is still under the hood but you’re using a different interface.

This all seems pretty idiotic on their part - I know why they’re trying it but it won’t work. There will always be someone working around it.