Josh Pocock

Anthropic Just Banned Every Third-Party Claude Code Tool (Open Claw & Open Code)

Anthropic just banned every third-party Claude Code tool from your subscription. Open-claw, open-code, all of them — cut off with less than 24 hours notice. But that's just the latest move. Over the past two weeks, $200/month max subscribers have been getting locked out in 19 minutes, limits were quietly reduced behind a "double usage" promo, and caching bugs were silently draining tokens 10-20x faster than normal. In this video I break down the full timeline of what happened, show you exactly what Anthropic isn't telling you, and give you 15 fixes you can implement right now to stop the bleeding. I also put together a free 19-page optimization guide covering everything in this video and more. Grab it in the Stride AI Academy (link below). 📄 FREE 19-page reference doc with templates, research, and examples: https://www.skool.com/stride-ai-academy-7057 🎓 Free Stride AI Academy community: https://www.skool.com/stride-ai-academy-7057 🚀 Premium community: https://www.skool.com/stride-ai-automation-academy-9690 💼 Work with us: https://www.executivestride.com/apply ⌛ Chapters 0:00 - Anthropic Bans Third-Party Claude Code Tools 1:39 - The April 4th Ban Explained 3:05 - How to Claim Your Free Credit 4:28 - How Claude Code Limits Actually Work 6:10 - The 3-Part Crisis That Broke Everything 9:04 - The Caching Bug: 10-20x Overcharges 10:06 - Anthropic's Response (Lydia's 4M View Tweet) 12:00 - OpenAI Resets Limits While Anthropic Cuts Them 12:49 - 15 Fixes to Stop the Bleeding 17:00 - Trim Your CLAUDE.md & Optimize Settings 19:12 - Sub-Agents, Caching Timeouts & Output Bloat 21:47 - Is Claude Getting Dumber? 23:32 - The Bigger Picture: Subsidized AI Is Ending 25:56 - Free 19-Page Optimization Guide