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The flaw emerged in the context of a wider crackdown by Anthropic on third-party agent harnesses. On April 4, 2026, Anthropic began blocking Claude Pro and Max subscribers from routing their flat-rate plan usage through third-party agentic tools, requiring those tools to be billed under a separate pay-as-you-go "extra usage" tier instead.<ref name="techcrunch_openclaw">{{Cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/04/anthropic-says-claude-code-subscribers-will-need-to-pay-extra-for-openclaw-support/ |title=Anthropic says Claude Code subscribers will need to pay extra for OpenClaw usage |website=TechCrunch |date=2026-04-04 |access-date=2026-04-26}}</ref> Boris Cherny, Anthropic's Head of Claude Code, stated on X that Claude's "subscriptions weren't built for the usage patterns of these third-party tools" and that the policy "applies to all third-party harnesses and will be rolled out to more shortly."<ref name="techcrunch_openclaw" /><ref name="venturebeat_openclaw">{{Cite web |url=https://venturebeat.com/technology/anthropic-cuts-off-the-ability-to-use-claude-subscriptions-with-openclaw-and |title=Anthropic cuts off the ability to use Claude subscriptions with OpenClaw and third-party AI agents |website=VentureBeat |date=2026-04-04 |access-date=2026-04-26}}</ref> | The flaw emerged in the context of a wider crackdown by Anthropic on third-party agent harnesses. On April 4, 2026, Anthropic began blocking Claude Pro and Max subscribers from routing their flat-rate plan usage through third-party agentic tools, requiring those tools to be billed under a separate pay-as-you-go "extra usage" tier instead.<ref name="techcrunch_openclaw">{{Cite web |url=https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/04/anthropic-says-claude-code-subscribers-will-need-to-pay-extra-for-openclaw-support/ |title=Anthropic says Claude Code subscribers will need to pay extra for OpenClaw usage |website=TechCrunch |date=2026-04-04 |access-date=2026-04-26}}</ref> Boris Cherny, Anthropic's Head of Claude Code, stated on X that Claude's "subscriptions weren't built for the usage patterns of these third-party tools" and that the policy "applies to all third-party harnesses and will be rolled out to more shortly."<ref name="techcrunch_openclaw" /><ref name="venturebeat_openclaw">{{Cite web |url=https://venturebeat.com/technology/anthropic-cuts-off-the-ability-to-use-claude-subscriptions-with-openclaw-and |title=Anthropic cuts off the ability to use Claude subscriptions with OpenClaw and third-party AI agents |website=VentureBeat |date=2026-04-04 |access-date=2026-04-26}}</ref> | ||
[https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/ Hermes Agent], an open-source self-improving AI agent built by | [https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/ Hermes Agent], an open-source self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research, is among the third-party harnesses affected by the rollout. Hermes can route requests to Anthropic models either through pay-per-token API keys or by reading Claude Code's credential store on the same machine, the latter of which became the target of Anthropic's enforcement actions.<ref name="hermes_providers">{{Cite web |url=https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/integrations/providers |title=AI Providers — Hermes Agent |publisher=Nous Research |access-date=2026-04-26}}</ref> | ||
== HERMES.md billing switch == | == HERMES.md billing switch == | ||