The CLI needs work, or they should officially allow third-party harnesses. Right now, the CLI experience is noticeably behind other SOTA models. It actually works much better when paired with Opencode.
But with accounts reportedly being banned over ToS issues, similar to Claude Code, it feels risky to rely on it in a serious workflow.
Usually, it is already stated in their documentation (auth section). If a statement is vague, treat it as a no. It is not worth the risk when they can ban you at any time. For example, ChatGPT allows it, but Claude and Gemini do not.
Maybe I am missing something from the docs of your link, but I unfortunately don't think it actually states anything regarding allowing users to connect and use their Codex quota in third party apps.
From TFA: “OAuth authentication (used with Free, Pro, and Max plans) is intended exclusively for Claude Code and Claude.ai. Using OAuth tokens obtained through Claude Free, Pro, or Max accounts in any other product, tool, or service — including the Agent SDK — is not permitted and constitutes a violation of the Consumer Terms of Service.”
OpenAPI openly encourage users to use their subscription with their SDK and 3rd party tools like opencode, openclaw. Until they change it, they're still better than Anthropic subscription.
It is extreme cope from the Anthropic audience to claim its products and policies have shortcomings only because they are the best and that OpenAI would be as bad as they are if they were the ones in the lead
Fair point. What it really does for me is give me a better UX for having a bunch of parallel workstreams. I could achieve a similar effect thing with scripting, and maybe some clever ways of getting something like the sidebar for seeing the status of everything on a single pane. But Conductor packaged it up in a way that I found much improved over multiple Cursor or VSCode windows.
$20 is not useable, need $100 plan at least for development purposes. That is a lot of money for some countries. In my country, that can be 1/10 of their monthly salary. Hard to get approval on it. It is still too expensive right now.
Yeah it’s not obvious at first but a big project will cause usage to skyrocket bc of how much context it will stuff with reading files. I can use my $20 subscription’s 5 hour limit in mere seconds.
Based on their Terms of Service, we are not allowed to use a Claude Code subscription outside of Claude Code itself. Although it may work with tools like pi or other harnesses, doing so puts your account at risk of being banned.
Given how Anthropic changes Claude Code and forces everyone with a subscription to use it (if you pay much more with the API you can avoid it). I think it's fair to say that Claude Code is not an asset but a liability.
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