alt Hacker News> Also, Claude has made it apparent time and time again that it does not want people using Claude Code as a "tool" in a workflow.
Why would Anthropic get to dictate how someone uses a "tool" (that's literally what Claude Code is... a tool in a workflow)
They're swimming upstream. Trying to maintain a rapidly shrinking moat and not being very creative about it. Making enemies of your users is often a failing strategy.
> Why would Anthropic get to dictate how someone uses a "tool" (that's literally what Claude Code is... a tool in a workflow)
Seriously?
It's their tool. And their service.
If this were a standalone tool that didn't rely on their service (like grep), I'd see your point. But it isn't - it's an extension of their service.
In reality, you can use the tool however you want. But they don't have to grant you access to their hosted service for every use case you can think of with the tool.