[deaux]

> (claude -p still works on the sub but I get the feeling like if I actually use it, I'll get my Anthropic acct. nuked. Would be great to get some clarity on this. If I invoke it from my Telegram bot, is that an unauthorized 3rd party harness?)

How often? Realistically, if you invoke it occasionally, for what's clearly an amount that's "reasonable personal use", then no you don't get nuked.

[ls612]

It’s the same problem people have with Google. If they ban you for some AI hallucinated reason you have no recourse other than going viral on Hacker News.

[deaux]

I haven't seen a single case of that happening with Anthropic yet. Every time someone has gotten banned it's because they either used third party harnesses which went to great lengths to impersonate claude code (obvious evasion), or because they set things up so it maxxed out their usage 24/7.

I'll change my mind when I see otherwise.

And this isn't being positive about Anthropic support or their treatment of users, as I too have seen lots of people here getting billed by them for stuff they never paid for, blatant fraud. That's even worse than Google. I'm only talking about getting banned for usage.

[oooyay]

I plugged this question into Claude and told it to limit me to 10:

1. Cancer patient banned mid-payment — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675740

2. Hobbyist coder, VPN trigger, forms into void for 10+ months — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286867

3. "Reinstated" but still locked out — two systems out of sync — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46007408

4. Banned for testing vision API — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39988137

5. Banned on first ever prompt ("What do you know about Hacker News?") — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39698788

6. Mass banning wave, some banned before first use — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39672765

7. Entire company banned without warning, thousands of users stranded — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42210199

8. Forced new account (no email change support) → immediately banned — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339741

9. Banned for scaffolding a Claude.md file, support email never arrives — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723384

10. $81 billing overcharge, human promised, month of silence — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693679

[deaux]

Would've been nice if you'd read them as not a single one of them even mentions Agent SDK or claude -p usage, the topic of this thread.

[oooyay]

I did read them but I interpreted the topic of this thread to be Anthropic's vague approach to compliance enforcement not specifically how claude -p is used and interpreted by Anthropic.