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There is no difference between claude -p and typing into their "harness" in tmux. They want to make you pay for API which is subsidizing these plans.

They say they want to do it due to their percieved misuse(via automation) of `claude -p`, this I find laughable because they can always rate limit based on how fast a human types/STT's into a text box. Heck, they could provide TUI based extensions(something you vibe code in a few days today) to get better observability and DX for harness use, I would not mind using `claude` CLI directly, but they wont.

Forcing people to using their garbage harness — 0 observability, no extensibility and poor DX — is a showcase of how this fiasco is playing out: They refuse to improve their CLI and want to push everyone to use their API with multiple poorly rolled out policies.